November 18, 2021
This month PSD researchers have been featured for their efforts to invent chemical haptics, to detect internet censorship in real time, and to extract water from the air of even the driest deserts.
Voices
- Prof. Bill Fefferman comments, Quantum computers will change everything. But they won't replace your laptop
- Asst. Prof. Blase Ur comments on Facebook rebranding as Meta to emphasize ‘metaverse’ vision
- Prof. David Awschalom discusses the quantum revolution on NPR
- Prof. Daniel Holz comments, Astrophysicists unveil glut of gravitational-wave detections
- Prof. Dan Hooper comments, A famous dark matter signal is probably coming from something else
- Prof. David Archer discussed, The climate crisis – the decade that will shape the millennium
- Asst. Prof. Edwin Kite comments on Martian ‘lake’ at Gale Crater
Research
- Using chemistry to extract water from the air, even in the desert
- A new theory for systems that defy Newton’s third law
- Future VR haptics may use chemicals on the skin to make you feel
- Ultrahot 'superionic' ice is a new state of matter
- Massive, colliding black holes may expand along with the universe
- Black holes have tantrums, and scientists have finally captured the resulting gamma rays
- Statistics breakthrough helps calculate likelihood of worst-case scenarios
- Modifying molecules is complicated—so UChicago chemists found a simpler way
- How the Earth and moon formed, explained
Education and Community
- Prof. Laura Gagliardi, Department of Chemistry, elected Foreign Member of the Italian National Academy
- Priorities for next 10 years of astronomy include exoplanets, early days of universe
- University of Chicago to award four honorary degrees at 2022 Convocation
- Data scientists aim to detect internet censorship in real time
- Asst. Prof. Sarah King awarded Air Force Office of Scientific Research Award
- What can the government tell us about the quantum internet?
- Shaoxiong ‘Dennis’ Zheng, SM’21, devoted scholar and friend, 1997-2021
- Are you prepared for the quantum revolution?
- Big Brains Podcast: Unlocking the secrets of black holes, with Andrea Ghez
- ScaleStuds project receives $5 million to build foundations for massive computation
- Watch Prof. Marcela Carena, Dept. of Physics, deliver the Harper Lecture, “The Unseen Universe”