April 28, 2022
Voices
- Prof. Wendy Freedman comments, The burning new feud to settle one of physics’ biggest questions
- The state of quantum computing: Future, present, past
- The renewable-energy revolution will need renewable storage
- Prof. Ben Zhao comments, AI sommelier generates wine reviews without ever opening a bottle
Research
- Artificial touch: The new tech making virtual reality more immersive
- Chemical haptics could bring touch sensations like cold and heat to VR
- Scientists propose ‘BREAD’ experiment to find particles of mysterious dark matter
- Astronomers gear up to grapple with the high-tension cosmos
- Supernova forensics: Eight years later, an explosion far out in space is still revealing secrets about the lives of stars
Education and Community
- Incoming astronomy postdoctoral researcher selected for the Heising-Simons Foundation 51 Pegasi b Fellowship
- Two NASA Hubble Einstein Fellows have selected KICP for their postdoctoral research
- Lia Merminga appointed director of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- Physics & Contemporary Art public lecture series returns
- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics names Lek-Heng Lim a 2022 Fellow
- Prof. David Jablonski awarded 2022 Darwin-Wallace Medal
- PSD Statistician Named 2022 Guggenheim Fellow
- Artificial touch: The new tech making virtual reality more immersive
- Women’s History Month: Dr. Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil
- Wanted: A quantum-ready U.S. workforce
- UChicago courses help students share science with the public
- 2021 AAAS Fellows share their experience in scientific research
- PSD scientist named co-spokesperson for international science collaboration mapping remnant light from the Big Bang
- Laura Gagliardi elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- The Fujita Scale, explained
- Physics professor Peter Littlewood elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- UChicago named in NSF $20 million CONECT Award under the forthcoming ACCESS program
- Four UChicago students awarded Goldwater Scholarships to support STEM research