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2026

Muon g-2 experiment places new constraints on a forbidden property of muons

October 27, 2026

Argonne is a collaborator on the Muon g-2 experiment, which is led by Fermilab. The collaboration has for the first time directly measured the electric dipole moment of the muon, a heavy cousin of the electron.

Argonne plays important role in the world’s most sensitive direct search for a muon electric dipole moment.


National Science Foundation awards $20M for an AI-driven network for soft-materials discovery

October 27, 2026

Polybot, an autonomous discovery platform at the CNM, is one of five labs across Argonne and UChicago that will run remote experiments from researchers across the nation as part of the PoLARIS project.

The network will link Argonne and University of Chicago laboratories for remote soft-materials research.


Uncovering long coherence times in the nitrogen vacancy centers of hexagonal diamonds

October 27, 2026

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in cubic diamonds.

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in cubic diamonds — a type of defect where a nitrogen atom substitutes a carbon atom neighboring a lattice vacancy — have commonly been studied for applications in quantum sensing and computing.


Ancient climate control

October 21, 2026

Old thermostat with words

UChicago geophysical scientists suggest that the way Earth’s “thermostat” works may have changed during the Pangea era.


2026 Golden Goose Award Documentary Short Film

October 19, 2026

Photo of Sid Nagel.

Golden Goose Award winner Sid Nagel is featured in a documentary.


South Side Science Festival

October 19, 2026

Image of professor Anderson and a female.

Watch John Anderson's in-studio demonstrations.


University of Chicago demystifies science with annual festival

October 19, 2026

Attendees of the fifth annual South Side Science Festival watch a nitrogen oxide demonstration in awe at the University of Chicago on Saturday, Oct. 3, 2026.

The fifth annual South Side Science Festival brought thousands to the campus for hands-on science experience and a day of curiosity.


Vietnamese professor cracks 55-year-old math puzzle, inspired by juggling

October 19, 2026

Pham Tuan Huy

A Vietnamese mathematician and his German colleague have helped resolve a 55-year-old mathematical conjecture, using randomness and techniques inspired by juggling to tackle the problem.


From a humble town in Leyte to MIT: a science communicator on making science more accessible

October 19, 2026

Hillary Diane Andales on growing up in Leyte, finding her place in science and building more opportunities for Filipino talent at home.

Aspiring astrophysicist and science communicator Hillary Diane Andales reflects on opportunity, belonging and what it will take to build a stronger scientific community in the Philippines


Scientists simulated the Milky Way’s first billion years: and found a very different galaxy

October 19, 2026

A concept art for the start for the first billion years of the universe.

New simulations trace the Milky Way back to a turbulent network of thousands of small galaxies in the early universe.


Pham Tuan Huy and the story of solving a nearly half-century-old problem.

October 19, 2026

Mathematician Pham Tuan Huy.

Pham Tuan Huy, a young Vietnamese mathematician, and his colleagues have solved a problem that has existed in the mathematical community for nearly 50 years.


U. of C.’s south side science fest showcases the wow that exists in the field

October 19, 2026

Children stare at the Booster K1 robot at the annual University of Chicago South Side Science Festival in Hyde Park on Oct. 3, 2026.

Robots demonstrating dance moves made popular by the late entertainer Michael Jackson, mini-catapults sending plastic gourds soaring toward a cauldron, paper airplane competitions and ice cream frozen by liquid nitrogen were among the demonstrations on offer at the fifth annual University of Chicago South Side Science Festival.


South Siders get hands-on at U. of C. Science Festival

October 19, 2026

Children watch as professor John Anderson prepares a ladle of marshmallows frozen in liquid nitrogen during the South Side Science Festival, Oct. 3, 2026.

Martha Dehoyos watched as three of her children dug through trays of mud, sand and pebbles looking for fossils at the paleontology booth Saturday afternoon during the fifth annual South Side Science Festival.


The Milky Way is one galaxy — but it used to be thousands, new simulations reveal

October 19, 2026

A supercomputer simulation of how the Milky Way appeared at the dawn of the universe. Purple colors show hot gas, white shows UV radiation from young stars, and yellow shows glowing oxygen atoms.

A new supercomputer simulation traces how thousands of small galaxies eventually became the Milky Way.


NSF’s eight quantum leap challenge institutes to hold first joint public discussion at Q2B X Chicago Quantum summit

October 19, 2026

Students tour a quantum lab at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering as part of the National Science Foundation-sponsored Quantum Leap Challenge Institute Quantum Careers Workshop on April 12, 2024. Alex Cronin, who will moder

For the first time since the U.S. National Science Foundation renewed and expanded the nation’s Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes, representatives from each Institute will convene at Q2B x Chicago Quantum Summit to discuss their efforts to solve the complex hurdles facing the quantum technology sector as it nears utility-scale deployment.