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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.

Scientists use RADAR to securely combine gravitational wave and radio data, advancing the study of the universe’s most dramatic events.
 

Yuelong Li, in his second year of the Master's Program in Computational and Applied Mathematics, focuses on the mathematics of topological insulators. We interviewed him about his experiences at UChicago.

Arnab Bose, associate senior instructional professor in UChicago’s Data Science Institute and program director of the MS in Applied Data Science Online program aims to produce career-ready graduates who can marry practical skills in building machine learning models with the ability to operationalize a model to best fit an organization’s needs.

Chemistry professor Bozhi Tian has received the 2026 Marian and Stuart Rice Research Award. The Divisional honor provides $100,000 for intellectually exciting and innovative research ventures that enable new research directions.

Researchers are exploring phononic nanodevices as a pathway to realize practical quantum technologies.  

Scientists are tackling the persistent problem of factually incorrect statements using an approach called HALT (Hallucination Assessment via Latent Testing) that identifies factually incorrect statements from within an LLM's internal workings.

Advanced computer models have allowed us to determine the amount of oxygen the gas giant contains, which may explain the history of the solar system. 

Even though each chip only needs a small amount of the metal, mining consumes a lot of energy and produces a lot of waste.

Anand Nakhate chose the University of Chicago's FinMath program because it matched exactly what he was looking for – deep mathematical rigor combined with structured, real-world application.

A new photoemission electron microscope (PEEM) arrives at UChicago to help researchers in their quest to build a complete wiring diagram of the brain.

Three UChicago scientists, including Sarah King, received a $4.8 million, three-year grant to purchase the microscope and customize it for connectome imaging.