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Astronomer Wendy Freedman shares humanity's quest to measure the expanding universe, revealing an exciting scientific mystery: our measurements don't match. Drawing from decades leading major observatories and the Giant Magellan Telescope project, she explains how the James Webb Space Telescope is achieving unprecedented accuracy in cosmic measurements.

New research by David Awschalom reveals quantum computing is nearing the point of practical use, but scientists still need to make some specific breakthroughs.

Researchers developed RADAR, an AI-powered framework that links gravitational wave detections with radio afterglow data from neutron star mergers. By analyzing data at supercomputing centers, respecting data access limits, and automating coordination, RADAR enables faster, scalable multi-messenger astronomy, demonstrated using GW170817.

AI bots have created their own social network. ChicagoLIVE speaks with Ben Zhao.

Learn about the latest model of Jupiter's deep atmosphere that reveals how much oxygen the planet contains.

Data from the XRISM satellite has for the first time revealed that supermassive black holes create their own 'storms' of hot gas, stirring up the environment and dominating the evolution of galaxies.

The clock alerts humanity to the danger of nuclear catastrophe. With the expiration this week of an arms treaty between the United States and Russia, scientists say we are 85 seconds to midnight.

Jupiter’s deep interior is unreachable, so scientists used advanced models combining chemistry and atmospheric motion. The study finds Jupiter has 1–1.5× the Sun’s oxygen, slow vertical mixing, and high carbon levels, revealing clues to how gas giants form.

Unique UChicago-led instrument PUEO caught a ride aboard a NASA balloon in search of high-energy neutrinos.

UChicago paleontologists investigate how life entered and adapted to the deep sea.

B. B. Cael reveals the quantity of extreme weather events, and their impacts correlated with human development as well as climate change. 

New research suggests making Mars green could be a real, testable goal, if we're ready to take the ethical leap.

A series of computer models designed to simulate Jupiter's interior mechanism has revealed that Jupiter contains about one and a half times more oxygen than the sun. 

How leading insurers are translating AI investment into growth, productivity, and value.

Associate Professor Marshini Chetty collaborates with law professors Lior Strahilevitz and Matthew Kugler to demonstrate that dark patterns manipulate users despite explicit instructions to protect privacy, research that was honored with a Future of Privacy Forum’s 2026 Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award.