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A University of Chicago–led team launched NASA’s Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations (PUEO) experiment via balloon above Antarctica, aiming to detect elusive, ultra-high-energy neutrinos. 

New approach may help shed light on turbulence, other stubborn natural mysteries.

​​In a Data Engineering course taught by Steve Barry, a team of Master’s in Applied Data Science students built a full end-to-end data pipeline, from raw public datasets to an interactive, AI-powered interface. The project gave students hands-on experience designing the kind of data infrastructure that underpins real-world applications, developing the technical skills.

UChicago scientists clock a driving factor in the evolution of error correction.

Congratulations to early-career scholars Aloni Cohen (Computer Science and DSI), Anna Wuttig (Chemistry), and Zoe Yan (Physics), recognized for their potential to make substantial contributions to their fields.

Astronomer Wendy Freedman shares humanity's quest to measure the expanding universe, revealing an exciting scientific mystery: our measurements don't match. Drawing from decades leading major observatories and the Giant Magellan Telescope project, she explains how the James Webb Space Telescope is achieving unprecedented accuracy in cosmic measurements.

New research by David Awschalom reveals quantum computing is nearing the point of practical use, but scientists still need to make some specific breakthroughs.

Researchers developed RADAR, an AI-powered framework that links gravitational wave detections with radio afterglow data from neutron star mergers. By analyzing data at supercomputing centers, respecting data access limits, and automating coordination, RADAR enables faster, scalable multi-messenger astronomy, demonstrated using GW170817.

AI bots have created their own social network. ChicagoLIVE speaks with Ben Zhao.

Learn about the latest model of Jupiter's deep atmosphere that reveals how much oxygen the planet contains.

Data from the XRISM satellite has for the first time revealed that supermassive black holes create their own 'storms' of hot gas, stirring up the environment and dominating the evolution of galaxies.

The clock alerts humanity to the danger of nuclear catastrophe. With the expiration this week of an arms treaty between the United States and Russia, scientists say we are 85 seconds to midnight.

Jupiter’s deep interior is unreachable, so scientists used advanced models combining chemistry and atmospheric motion. The study finds Jupiter has 1–1.5× the Sun’s oxygen, slow vertical mixing, and high carbon levels, revealing clues to how gas giants form.

Unique UChicago-led instrument PUEO caught a ride aboard a NASA balloon in search of high-energy neutrinos.

UChicago paleontologists investigate how life entered and adapted to the deep sea.