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2025

Research reinvents MXene synthesis

December 23, 2025

A colorized scanning electron microscopy (SEM) image of a two-dimensional material called a MXene

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


International Year of Quantum ends, but the innovations continue at UChicago

December 23, 2025

UChicago campus

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


Predictive “mismatch” leads to carbon capture breakthrough

December 23, 2025

Hilal Daglar

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


Using quantum mechanics, researchers crack the hidden chemistry of ice

December 23, 2025

Chicago river with floating ice

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


Scientists are secretly meeting to decide how close we are to Doomsday, for now it’s 89 seconds to midnight

December 23, 2025

a meteor headed for Earth with a clock overlaid on the illustration

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.


India’s big chance for brain gain

December 23, 2025

Yamuna Krishnan

NDTV interviews Yamuna Krishnan.


Meet Apoorva Gupta, MS in Applied Data Science

December 19, 2025

Apoorva Gupta

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.


Lemon-shaped world is the most stretched-out planet ever seen

December 19, 2025

Artist concept of strange lemon-shaped planet

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


New quantum chemistry method to unlock secrets of advanced materials

December 18, 2025

Charge hopping circle

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


Who sets the Doomsday Clock?

December 18, 2025

illustration of a world map as a clock

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.


Experts urge caution as Trump’s big bill incentivizes AI in healthcare

December 18, 2025

hospital bed

Analysts say benefits could be felt in under-resourced rural hospitals but warn against AI as a cost-cutting measure.


NASA’s Webb telescope finds bizarre atmosphere on a lemon-shaped exoplanet

December 18, 2025

Artist concept of strange lemon-shaped planet

Faraway planet defies our understanding of planet formation, say UChicago scientists.


Expanding the search for quantum-ready 2D materials

December 12, 2025

Diagram labeled 2D materials and substrates

The Galli Group has created a high-throughput computational strategy, creating a new, data-driven approach to finding ideal 2D materials and substrates for quantum technologies.


What to read and watch over winter break 2025

December 12, 2025

man in chair with feet up reading

Recommendations from UChicago award winners, including CS alum Polly Ren, SB’25, College Undergraduate Student Prize in Undergraduate Teaching winner.


Statistician Li Ma returns to UChicago to advance design-aware assessment of models in the AI era

December 12, 2025

Li Ma

Li Ma brings his expertise in design-aware modeling back to Hyde Park as a Professor of Statistics and Data Science.