News: Research

2025

Moungi Bawendi delivers 2025 Harkins lecture at UChicago

June 12, 2025

Photo of Moungi Bawendi lecturing in front of a projection of data.

Nobel laureate Moungi Bawendi reflects on quantum dot revolution with his alma mater. 


Argonne projects receive $10M in federal funding for technology to reduce the impact of used nuclear fuel

June 12, 2025

Image of two scientists working in front of a white board.

Two Argonne projects awarded over $10 million in funding as part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy (ARPA-E) program to enable transmutation of U.S. commercial nuclear stockpile. 


Argonne and Fermilab receive $3.2M in federal funding for nuclear transmutation technology

June 12, 2025

Argonne physicist Michael Kelly loads a superconducting cavity into a large furnace.

Argonne and Fermilab's funding is part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program to reduce the impact of used nuclear fuel.
 


Muon g-2 announces most precise measurement of the magnetic anomaly of the muon

June 12, 2025

Gathering of people in the Fermi National Accelerator.

The third and final result, based on the last three years of data, is in perfect agreement with the experiment’s previous results. This long-awaited value will be the world’s most precise measurement of the muon magnetic anomaly for many years to come.
 


Understanding ocean rebound after mass extinction events could help us in the future

June 12, 2025

This lineage was widespread and abundant in the Late Cretaceous, but just a few species survive today off the coasts of Australia

David Jablonski discusses how ecosystems recover from extinction events and how we can best prepare for the next one. 


Is the hubble tension starting to go away?

June 12, 2025

Above, Webb’s image of one such galaxy, known as NGC 1365.

Scientists led by Wendy Freedman have made a new calculation of the speed at which the universe is expanding, using the data taken by the powerful new James Webb Space Telescope on multiple galaxies. 


Mina Lee, University of Chicago professor “AI is a partner in thinking together”

June 12, 2025

Professor Mina Lee of the University of Chicago(UChicago).

Mina Lee shares insights into her research on AI and writing, and discusses the future of LLMs.


Astronomers thought they found signs of life on distant planet. New studies are skeptical.

June 12, 2025

This artist's impression shows what the faraway planet K2-18b, its host star and an accompanying planet in this system might look like.

A series of studies, including one by Rafael Luque, have cast doubt on the sensational claim that "the strongest evidence yet" was found that life exists anywhere else besides Earth.


The core of Fermat’s Last Theorem just got superpowered

June 12, 2025

Photo of professor Frank Calegari.

By extending the scope of the key insight behind Fermat’s Last Theorem, four mathematicians, including Frank Calegari, have made great strides toward building a “grand unified theory” of math.


Turning the Red Planet green? It’s time to take terraforming Mars seriously, scientists say

June 12, 2025

A visualization of what Mars might look like over time, if humans managed to terraform the planet.

New research done by Edwin Kite suggests that the idea of transforming the Red Planet might not be so far-fetched after all.
 


Webb telescope may reveal how fast the universe is expanding

June 12, 2025

Visualization of the universe.

Wendy Freedman's research using the James Webb Space Telescope suggests that the Standard Model of the universe is holding up.


Giant Magellan Telescope advances to National Science Foundation final design phase

June 12, 2025

Giant Magellan Telescope rendering

One of the world’s largest optical telescopes reaches a key milestone toward US federal construction support.


Bridging medicine and machine learning: predicting skin cancer in resource-limited settings

June 2, 2025

Spencer Ellis (left) and Steven Song (right)

MD/PhD Candidate Steven Song and collaborators Spencer Ellis and Derek Reiman designed a machine learning model able to predict non-melanoma skin cancer under resource-limited settings.
 


The RNA Revolution: Linking the lab to the clinic to tackle challenges in cancer

June 2, 2025

Chuan He, PhD, John T. Wilson Distinguished Service Professor of Chemistry and of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (left) and Kunle Odunsi, MD, PhD, UCCCC Director, Abbvie Foundation Distinguished Service Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and BSD

New insights into the role of RNA in cancer took center stage at a recent symposium hosted at the University of Chicago.
 


Science meets soil in Fermilab’s prairie land

June 2, 2025

Robert Betz (right) standing with students at the Fermilab prairie in 2002.

The prairie restoration success at Fermilab has become a living laboratory — supporting scientific research, fostering biodiversity and providing essential ecosystem services like erosion control and enhanced soil health.