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

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

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.

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

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

Watch John Anderson's in-studio demonstrations.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.