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Smart detectors will let us learn from “bad” data and could dramatically reduce the time between groundbreaking discoveries. An op-ed by David Miller.

Artificial intelligence is already transforming warfare, whether it’s waged by missile, drone or satellite; on land or sea, or in the air, space or cyberspace. Perhaps the most terrifying prospect, though, is what awaits us when AI properly meets weapons of mass destruction, especially the diabolical trifecta of nuclear, biological and chemical arms. Daniel Holz weighs in.

Scientists say they have detected promising signs that a planet orbiting a star 49 light-years from Earth could have an atmosphere, making it potentially suitable for life.

Researchers at the University of Chicago and New York University have revealed a shared mathematical structure between the noise inherent in generative modeling and the quantum fluctuations of atomic nuclei.

Scientists used a new error correction method to crack a classically intractable problem. Prof. Bill Fefferman and his grad student Soumik Ghosh co-authored the paper.

Connecting atomic-scale behavior to larger-scale material properties to predict the performance of real optical devices.

The Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth served as the leading academic thought partner for the summit, with a large cohort of students and scholars attending for three packed days in Chicago.

New research from Computer Science explores how digital services could use personal data for specific tasks without requiring people to give up broad control over it.

UChicago researchers, including chemist Chuan He, shed light on how a trans fatty acid increases production of immune cells.

Colloidal gallium nitride and titanium nitride nanocrystals could enable printed displays and implant coatings.

UChicago chemists show that local, imperfect information can be enough to learn control protocols in several carefully defined systems. What might that mean for biology, and for how we think about AI models of cells?

It may seem counterintuitive that climate changes could bring both floods and dryness, which seem like extremes on opposite ends of the weather spectrum. But they are connected. An op-ed by Elisabeth Moyer.

A proposed White House rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over scientific funding. UChicago physicist David Miller, who helped discover the Higgs boson, explains how the rule would’ve stifled that breakthrough.

UChicago researchers combine AI with statistics and physics to better estimate the odds of rare weather events.

New AI system successfully schedules observations on a major national telescope.