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Gift from Rika and Joe Mansueto launches a nearly $200 million initiative to recruit and retain leading scholars across disciplines.
 

On trip to Chilean telescope, UChicago undergrad class sheds new light on evolution of earliest stars.

Back-to-back successes cap a championship run for team “pocpocpoc”, consisting of undergraduates Bach Tran, Hung Pham, and Long Nguyen.
 

As AI floods academic publishing, Chenhao Tan's lab argues AI can be part of the fix.
 

A new system from Yun Ho, Romain Nith, and Pedro Lopes combines AI and electrical muscle stimulation to physically guide users through unfamiliar tasks—marking a leap toward general-purpose, context-aware embodied assistance.
 

Congratulations to Physics alum and grand-prize winner Takumi Matsuzawa, PhD’23, for “Yin and Yang: Harmony in Chaos.” Now in its 5th installment, a PSD science-artist has won grand prize every year, from Physics, Geophysical Sciences, Computer Science, and Chemistry!

Piaulet-Ghorayeb will blend atmospheric observations and theory to reveal the nature of sub-Neptunes, the galaxy's most common worlds.

The arrival of AI-generated research papers marks a turning point that could radically accelerate discovery—or drown it in automated mediocrity.

An analysis of hundreds of thousands of chats between AI chatbots and human users who experienced AI-tied delusional spirals found that the bots frequently reinforced delusional and even dangerous beliefs.

New research from the University of Chicago suggests that computers make better tutors when they are not so thoroughly programmed to pretend to be human.

Dark matter is a substance that has gravity—it holds galaxies together—but cannot be directly seen with any instrument yet created. Scientists are trying many different approaches to find the nature of this mysterious substance.

UChicago scientists team up to deliver lithium with fewer side effects in an innovative biomedical patch.

The event, to be held December 8 – 10 at the Marriott Marquis Chicago and McCormick Place, combines Q2B’s quantum business, practical application, and investor strength with the Chicago Quantum Summit’s integrated focus on research, scale-up, and economic development, offering opportunities for participants to engage with thought leaders, explore partnerships, and build skills across the full discovery-to-deployment spectrum.

Leveraging programmable RNA translational activation, the Dickinson Group will work to address EHMT1 haploinsufficiency in rare disease.

The Human-Centered Weather Forecasts Initiative’s collaboration with the Ethiopian Meteorological Institute will establish an Africa-focused framework for AI-powered weather forecasting and build the local capacity needed to provide farmers with timely and actionable information.