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Congratulations to Carlos Kenig, who has won a King Faisal Prize for helping to revolutionize the understanding of nonlinear partial differential equations.

Analysis from UChicago and Cornell finds circuit boards drive the largest carbon footprint.

The DSI’s Faculty Co-Directors of Novel Intelligence, James Evans, Chenhao Tan, and 7 Nobel laureates, showcased AI that is transforming research.

Thirty-two members of the University of Chicago faculty, including five from the Physical Sciences Division, have received distinguished service professorships or named professorships, effective Jan. 1.

Professor Yamuna Krishnan uses nanotechnology to illuminate life's smallest unit.

A 40-year-old forgotten paper helped develop a faster, more efficient method of building futuristic 2D materials at a fraction of the cost.

A look back at the University of Chicago’s quantum breakthroughs for 2025.

Work revealing how water impacts carbon dioxide capture from air named Journal of the American Chemical Society “Editor’s Choice.”

New theory by UChicago researchers has implications for melting permafrost and climate change.

A small group of scientists and policy experts meet behind closed doors in Chicago to decide how close humanity is to annihilation. They’re not predicting the future—but they are watching it closely.

NDTV interviews Yamuna Krishnan.

Apoorva Gupta, a second-year student in the MS in Applied Data Science program, has been learning how data science is already used in the real world in ways he never realized. We interviewed Apoorva about his experiences here.

New York Times: An unusual object orbiting a rapidly spinning star might be a new phenomenon in the universe.

Method developed by UChicago researchers could help explain how transport properties emerge from quantum effects in materials like solar cells and superconductors.

In the shadow of her family’s atomic legacy, a writer set out to understand the increasingly urgent debate about humanity’s capacity to end itself—and what it can teach us about living.