Harvard couple wins $3M 'Oscar of Science' for first gene therapy to reverse childhood blindness A married couple of scientists who met as students at Harvard has won the 2026 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for creating the world's first gene therapy to restore sight in patients with a rare form of inherited blindness.
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View all signals →China has built the world’s first dual-core quantum computer, a development that could “significantly enhance” efficiency, according to official media. The breakthrough signalled that Chinese quantum computing technology was “entering a new stage”, the state-owned Science and Technology Daily reported this week. While other quantum computers rely on high energy consumption and need to be run in temperatures close to absolute zero, the design of this computer uses neutral atoms – which consume...