As Breakthrough Energy Fellows welcomes a new cohort of 22 startups, it is also diversifying its portfolio to include more ...

Bill Gates is giving it all away. The megabucks Microsoft founder’s fortune has plunged a staggering $51 billion in a few days because he’s ramped-up his charitable donations, according to the ...

The $645 million, 390-foot “Breakthrough” superyacht—widely linked to billionaire Bill Gates but reportedly never used by him—is up for sale. It’s the world’s first hydrogen fuel-cell superyacht and ...

Bill Gates, chairman of The Gates Foundation, is carrying on women-focused philanthropic work first championed by his former wife, Melinda French Gates. Women’s health research is getting a shot in ...

Bill Gates is known for his voracious reading habits, and he has picked out five titles that have stood the test of time ...

A company backed by billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has produced lab-made butter using carbon. Breakthrough Energy ...

Alex Hogan is STAT’s senior multimedia producer and host of STATus Report, STAT’s weekly video series. You can follow him on Bluesky. Bill Gates has committed to giving away nearly all of his wealth ...

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Every year Bill Gates shares a reading list with his millions of followers, usually focusing on books he's discovered in the past 12 months. But a few years ago, he decided to shake things up on his ...