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Research outlines a new workflow for design and manufacturing, illustrated by two new methane-fighting materials.

On this day, Aug. 20, 1909, scientists with the University of Chicago’s Yerkes Observatory accidentally came across the planet Pluto for the first time.

Laura Gagliardi and Mark Levin acknowledged for their outstanding achievements in chemistry across various fields.

Studying the atmospheres of lava worlds offers window to Earth’s earliest history, pathway to habitable worlds.

After years of recycling and environmental consciousness, a UChicago alum turned to an old toothbrush, an engineering background, and new knowledge from UChicago’s MS in Environmental Science to create LOOP, a startup reimagining how people approach oral care.

The U.S. National Science Foundation has renewed the Quantum Leap Challenge Institute for Quantum Sensing for Biophysics and Bioengineering (NSF QuBBE) with a $37.5 million, five-year investment to advance quantum sensing technologies that can reveal biological processes difficult or impossible to observe with conventional tools.

 

AI has now been turned to the sky because astronomers have a scheduling problem—Time on a major telescope is rationed.

The historic Fields Medal victories of two Peking University alumni have drawn attention to a wider generation of young Chinese scientists and technology entrepreneurs making their mark on the global stage.

Andrew Chien, professor at the University of Chicago and a senior scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, explains the three major reasons people are concerned with data centers in an interview conducted by SciLine, based at the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

The experiment, designed to measure the magnetic moment of the muon, is also sensitive to a particle property called the electric dipole moment.

As the global research community gathers in Chicago for the American Chemical Society’s yearly conference, UChicago faculty and leadership share insights and innovations

Congratulations to Nita Yack, Managing Director in Computer Science!

Out of more than 6,000 participants and 800 qualifying teams representing 150 countries, University of Chicago MS in Applied Data Science students Morgan Klutzke and Binjie Wang earned first place in the Graduate Track (Master’s & PhD) of the 2026 U.S. Artificial Intelligence Institute (USAII) Global Hackathon.

Smart detectors will let us learn from “bad” data and could dramatically reduce the time between groundbreaking discoveries. An op-ed by David Miller.

Artificial intelligence is already transforming warfare, whether it’s waged by missile, drone or satellite; on land or sea, or in the air, space or cyberspace. Perhaps the most terrifying prospect, though, is what awaits us when AI properly meets weapons of mass destruction, especially the diabolical trifecta of nuclear, biological and chemical arms. Daniel Holz weighs in.