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Finding helps scientists understand how giant planets form and migrate.

New results strengthen the “Hubble tension,” hinting at the need for rethinking our model of the universe.

Bozhi Tian has been selected as one of the distinguished honorees for the Chicago Reader's "People Issue 2025.” The People Issue is an annual feature that spotlights Chicagoans who are fundamentally shaping the city's culture, science, and public life.

The University of Chicago, where Fermi split the atom in 1942, is becoming the center of a new form of advanced technology. There’s a good reason for that. An interview with David Awschalom.

This new International Research Laboratory (IRL) will be a three-way partnership between UChicago, the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Université Paris Cité.

The PEERING testbed, created by UChicago Professor Nick Feamster and colleagues, received the Test of Time Award at the 2025 ACM Internet Measurement Conference.

Computer scientist Pedro Lopes explores the potential of human-computer integration and haptics to help us move and learn.

According to new research from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), Theia and Earth were "neighbors" (in the cosmic sense). The study was led by Timo Hopp while he was a postdoctoral researcher at UChicago.

With advanced simulations, scientists at Argonne, UChicago have created a way to predict and engineer new properties for quantum tech.

Since the 1980s, experts have been scratching their heads to get a detailed, molecular-level explanation for what happens when UV radiation bombards ice.

A.I. has added urgency to the U.S. national laboratories that have been sites of cutting-edge scientific research, leading to deals with tech giants like Nvidia to speed up.

A controversial data center proposal in Naperville is set to once again come before the Planning and Zoning Commission Wednesday evening. Andrew Chien explains how modern data centers strain power grids and drive rising energy demand.

UChicago astrophysicists test a new piece of the sky to probe dark matter and dark energy.

Li Ma, AB’06, SM’06, is a professor of Statistics and Data Science at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on generative models, Bayesian modeling and computation, nonparametric inference, tree-based methods, and their applications in biomedical science. Prior to joining UChicago, he was a faculty member in the Department of Statistical Science at Duke University from 2011 to 2025. He is a Fellow of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.

A gentler chemistry from Chuan He’s lab improves accuracy and recovery of methylated DNA, advancing epigenetic research and diagnostics.