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Congratulations to the UChicago ATLAS team! This weekend, the ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, and LHCb collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN were honored with the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation. The prize is awarded to the four collaborations, which unite thousands of researchers from more than 70 countries, and concerns the papers authored based on LHC Run-2 data up to July 2024.

Geophysical Sciences graduate student Jui-Chun Freya Chen won first place for her image, “Anemometer in the High Arctic.” 

In December 2024 Stuart A. Rice, the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Chemistry, died at the age of 92. President of the University of Chicago Paul Alivisatos, AB’81, pays tribute to an incomparable teacher whose influence on him endures.

An eavesdropper hiding inside a black hole could still obtain information about quantum objects on its outside, a finding that reveals how effectively black holes destroy the quantum states near their event horizons. Research by Physics grad student Daine Danielson. [paywall]

The nanomaterials pioneer talks about coming from a family of immigrants, wandering as an undergraduate, and finding his compass.

Research finds commonly mandated training, such as annual training methods, may be insufficient; emphasizes the need for complementary approaches to better protect organizations against phishing attacks.

Read an interview with Cédric Cerna, Director of the International Research Laboratory in Particle Physics and Cosmology (IRL PPC) and Visiting Scholar at the Enrico Fermi Institute here at UChicago.

Exploring how we can rethink e-waste, repair, and sustainability in computing, Jasmine Lu discusses her research on reducing electronic waste, designing for reuse, and fostering a more sustainable approach to technology.

NASA and Johns Hopkins-led team makes history with unprecedented mission to the sun’s corona.

Climate science has correctly predicted many aspects of the climate system and its response to increased atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. Recently, discrepancies between the real world and our expectations of regional climate changes have emerged, as have disruptive new computational approaches. Researchers, including Geophysical Sciences Professor Tiffany Shaw, provide an interpretation for the situation, suggesting the field is evolving and that embracing discrepancies is a key path forward.

Fermilab is finalizing a partnership with Diraq and several universities, including UChicago, for the Quandarum project. The project team intends to combine extreme environment electronics and silicon spin qubits to develop a quantum sensor that could profoundly impact the field of high-energy physics.

Physicists from the University of Amsterdam and the University of Chicago have demonstrated a series of ‘odd’ objects that are remarkably good at moving across any terrain they encounter—including uphill and over obstacles placed in their way.

A team in the Department of Computer Science has developed NetDiffusion, a cutting-edge AI-powered framework that generates highly realistic synthetic network traffic.

Prof. Giulia Galli unpacks breakthrough research that probes water's molecular architecture.

MAROON-X, an instrument created by Prof. Jacob Bean's team, finds evidence for planets around famous Barnard’s Star.