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Chicago’s Adler Planetarium message board hosts conversations between staffers, scholars, and some of the roughly 2.8 million volunteers in Zooniverse, the world’s largest platform for crowdsourced research online. Starting around late 2023, staffers noticed a flurry of uncertainty and discomfort from volunteers centered around machine learning. The Zooniverse team recognized that this discomfort required a larger conversation. A grant from The Kavli Foundation will enable that conversation exploring the ethics of machine learning in citizen science in partnership with the University of Chicago’s Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics (KICP); the Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public at the University of California, Berkeley; and the National Science Foundation-Simons SkAI Institute.

A team of geologists and mineral physicists at Harvard University, the University of California, Argonne National Laboratory, and the University of Chicago has found evidence via lab experiments that show the Earth's mantle is far more complex than previously known.

In a new research project, UChicago Prof. Nicolas Dauphas and a team of scientists used rocks gathered during the Apollo missions to learn more about the Moon's origins.
 

A new article provides insights into the extreme atmosphere of a rare ultra-hot Neptune. Michael Radica, a postdoctoral researcher in Astronomy and Astrophysics, was second author of this study.

In a new article, Geophysical Science's Prof. David Jablonski comments on how life on Earth would transform following a mass extinction. 

UChicago Prof. Rebecca Willett and Prof. Henry Hoffmann co-author a new article discussing the impact of the recent and upcoming cuts to federal research and how they threaten U.S. AI leadership. 

The University of Chicago will present an honorary degree to renowned climate scientist Eli Tziperman during its Convocation ceremony on June 7.

Pedram Hassanzadeh is an associate professor in the Department of the Geophysical Sciences and Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics. He is also the Faculty Director of the AI for Climate (AICE) Initiative and Codirector of the Human-centered Weather Forecasting Initiative. He works on improving the fundamental understanding of the multiscale, nonlinear physics of extreme weather events and developing new tools for predicting the variability of these events across time scales, from days to decades.

Roland Winston, SB’56, SM’57, PhD’63, former UChicago Physics professor and chair, is remembered as a pioneer of solar energy.

Congratulations to Clay Córdova, Assistant Professor of Physics, who has received the 2025 Frontiers of Science Award (FSA) from the International Congress of Basic Sciences for his work on theoretical particle physics and new symmetries in nature.

UChicago scientists study samples from Apollo missions, revealing new details about lunar history.

A new UChicago study uses seismological “background noise” from worldwide monitoring network to study Arctic.

Argonne National Laboratory, a national laboratory affiliated with the University of Chicago, has fully opened its Aurora exascale supercomputer to researchers across the world, heralding a new era of computing-driven discoveries.

Research can often yield beautiful images, offering an opportunity to further scientific engagement. University Communications invites all members of the UChicago community to submit images from their scientific research for the fourth annual Science as Art contest. The deadline to enter is Friday, March 14.

Beginning in the fall of 2025, UChicago will offer a new undergraduate major in climate and sustainable growth. This program, part of the Physical Sciences Collegiate Division, emphasizes a multidisciplinary approach to studying climate change.