2025
Illuminating water’s hidden chains
March 17, 2025

Prof. Giulia Galli unpacks breakthrough research that probes water's molecular architecture.
Study by UChicago scientists finds four tiny planets around one of our nearest stars
March 17, 2025

MAROON-X, an instrument created by Prof. Jacob Bean's team, finds evidence for planets around famous Barnard’s Star.
Targeting mitochondria
March 17, 2025

Lin Lab provides innovative strategy for combating cancer.
Researchers turn herbal tea ingredient into soft gels for biomedical use
March 17, 2025

In a new UChicago study, researchers discovered a method to transform an ingredient used in herbal tea to make hydrogel, a substance that can be used for biomedical purposes.
Chinese mathematicians in US say they have cracked century-old fluid mechanics puzzle
March 17, 2025

Two young Chinese mathematicians, including associate professor of mathematics Yu Deng, along with an international collaborator, may have solved a century-old problem in fluid mechanics--an area of study that is critical to many engineering fields, including hydraulic systems, the design of dams and bridges, and aerodynamics. [paywall]
The road map to alien life passes through the ‘Cosmic Shoreline’
March 17, 2025

UChicago astronomer Jacob Bean is playing a critical role in groundbreaking research of atmospheres on exoplanets.
How UChicago scientists are protecting artists from AI theft
March 17, 2025

A UChicago team is creating software to combat AI’s ability to use artists’ work. Computer science professor Ben Zhao sits down with WBEZ Chicago to discuss the project.
Anna Wuttig Profile in Angewandte Chemie
March 17, 2025

The prestigious journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition has featured Chemistry Assistant Professor Anna Wuttig, offering a glimpse into her research, motivations, and personal passions. The profile coincides with the publication of her first article in the journal, "Unlocking Mesoscopic Disorder in Graphitic Carbon with Spectroelectrochemistry," which highlights her groundbreaking work on understanding and manipulating disorder in heterogeneous electrocatalysts for selective electricity-driven synthesis.
The Great AI Art Heist
March 17, 2025

A lab at UChicago is protecting artists from theft by a new adversary: the machines.
Robert Haselkorn, influential researcher and mentor in molecular genetics and cell biology, 1934-202
March 13, 2025

Haselkorn was widely known for his work on plant viral RNA, and was highly regarded for his teaching and mentoring with students.
The hidden cost of Netflix’s autoplay: A study on viewing patterns and user control
March 12, 2025

A new UChicago study from the Department of Computer Science reveals how Netflix’s autoplay feature subtly shapes viewing habits. The research highlights how turning off autoplay resulted in behavioral changes in participants, including reduced viewing time and increased awareness of media consumption.
From UChicago to Nobel Prize
March 12, 2025

2024 Nobel Laureate and UChicago alumnus John Jumper returned to campus to deliver the Bloch Lecture on AlphaFold's Revolution.
Relaying volunteers’ input on machine learning to researchers
March 5, 2025

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.
Lab experiments add to evidence that Earth’s mantle is more complex than thought
March 3, 2025

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.
The Moon Solidified 4.43 Billion Years Ago
March 3, 2025

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.