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2024

Argonne scientists use AI to identify new materials for carbon capture

February 14, 2024

Scientific visualization of the AI-guided assembly of a novel metal organic framework with high carbon dioxide adsorption capacity and synthesizable linkers

Metal-organic framework (MOF) materials can be used in many different applications, from catalysts to energy converters.


The Doomsday Clock keeps ticking

February 14, 2024

Doomsday Clock is set to 90 seconds to midnight

In a NYT article, Prof. Daniel Holz says, “It’s difficult to assess what’s good news and what’s bad news, from the perspective of humanity in the next century...black hole physics is a hell of a lot easier.”


The Granulobot

February 14, 2024

Granulobot units

Physicists Baudouin Saintyves and Heinrich Jaeger develop a modular robot with liquid and solid properties.


The seven transitions of Mars climate

February 13, 2024

composite figure of Mars topology

Surface observations indicate that Mars’s early climate supported liquid water—rivers and lakes—for over a billion years. But like Earth, which has experienced both global ice ages and extreme heat over the past eon, Mars’s climate history may have been intermittent.


Alumni Spotlight: Dixin Tang, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at UT Austin

February 9, 2024

Dixin Tang

2020 PhD graduate Dixin Tang has just begun a rewarding career at UT Austin as an assistant professor of computer science. Tang took a look back at his time at UChicago, including the professors that made a lasting impact, his involvement with ChiData, and what has made all the difference in his current role.


UChicago scientists develop a plastic that can be re-formed as needed

February 9, 2024

Nicholas Boynton holds tiny plastic pieces

Stuart Rowan and team developed a material called a “pluripotent plastic,” which has the ability to take on many forms.


A surprisingly simple model can explain how brain cells organize and connect

February 9, 2024

illustration of a lit-up brain

Scientists from UChicago, Harvard, and Yale propose model that could apply across a wide range of organisms.


AI could devastate the environment, but help is on the way

February 8, 2024

man standing in a data center

UChicago computer scientist Andrew Chien discusses zero-carbon cloud data centers in a Tech Times article.


Where do cosmic rays come from?

February 8, 2024

Cosmic rays raining down on earth illustration

Space.com article cites UChicago research finding that over 90% of cosmic rays are hydrogen nuclei, 9% are the atomic nuclei of helium, and 1% are the nuclei of heavy elements like iron.


New research unites quantum engineering and artificial intelligence

February 2, 2024

Junyu Liu

Researchers at Pritzker Molecular Engineering, including CQE IBM postdoctoral scholar Junyu Liu of UChicago CS, and collaborators show in a new paper how incorporating quantum computing into the classical machine learning process can potentially help make machine learning more sustainable and efficient.


NeurIPS 2023 award-winning paper by DSI faculty Bo Li, DecodingTrust, provides a comprehensive framework for assessing trustworthiness of GPT models

February 2, 2024

Bo Li

In a year with a record-breaking number of paper submissions, Bo Li was awarded the NeurIPS Outstanding Paper Award.


NetMicroscope uses AI to improve network monitoring for a better internet experience

February 2, 2024

Nick Feamster

Nick Feamster's NetMicroscope has developed a tool that lets customers monitor their network and extract meaningful data – enabling intervention before any problems become issues for the users.


The colossal caverns for Fermilab’s DUNE experiment have been fully excavated

February 2, 2024

one of DUNE's large caverns, about the height of a seven-story building

Milestone for Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, under construction to search for clues about mysterious particles.


Revealed: HIV’s trick for invading the nucleus of a host’s cell

February 2, 2024

A simulation of the pore of the nucleus of the cell. From left, an overhead view; center, a cutaway view; and at right, with an HIV capsid (shown in blue-green) embedded.

ScienceAlert article features Prof. Gregory Voth's research using computer modeling to aid in understanding how the Human Immunodeficiency Virus – better known as HIV – breaks into the nucleus of a cell, enabling it to replicate and spread.


U. of C. contest seeks astronomy art from South Side students

February 2, 2024

An astronaut meets a celestial whale in a painting from the 2023 South Side Science Art Contest

Hyde Park Herald article highlights an art contest held by UChicago astronomy and astrophysics department with the aim of connecting more South Side elementary students to the cosmos.