2025
Moungi Bawendi delivers 2025 Harkins lecture at UChicago
June 12, 2025

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.