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A UChicago research team created a nanoplasmonic material that harvests light energy for biomedical sensing and stimulation.

A new study finds that storing cold water used to cool data centers underground could increase IT power capacity by 9.8 percent across three U.S. markets, with gains as high as 11 percent in Arizona's hot, dry climate.

Watch our video wrapup of the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth's academic and co-curricular activities for the 2025-2026 academic year.

Event is first documented to involve four major tectonic plates, finds UChicago scientist Sunyoung Park.

An extremely unusual tectonic movement took place 15 minutes after the Tohoku earthquake in 2011, causing almost the whole of Japan to move 5 millimetres to the east.

They say the reaction might have made the building blocks of DNA and RNA, both essential for life. Research by Astro postdoc Jeehyun Yang during his time at Caltech.

Recent observations suggest that dark energy is changing over time. Theorists wonder if dark matter is, too. Article features research by KICP Associate Fellow Georges Obied.

ATLAS probes top-antitop quark interactions near threshold. 

The R&D effort focuses on exploring the utilization of a streaming link between the custom Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)-based hardware boards planned to be used during HL-LHC, and a high-performance GPU-enabled processing farm. With this architecture, the R&D effort led by CERN Openlab, University of Chicago, and UCL scientists will allow the real-time analysis of the full data stream by deploying powerful models like Convolutional Auto-Encoders (CAEs), temporal Convolutional Neural Networks (TCCN), and transformer-based models, which are planned to be tested with the prototype hardware.

Discovering the physical principles of superconductivity in diamond opens the door for scientists to use it in new quantum technologies
 

Researchers are starting to explore the tools and systems we need to develop to cool down the planet.

How an innovative UChicago laboratory built a fast-moving platform to target "undruggable" cancer proteins and train the next generation of scientific leaders. 

Researchers say a lack of reliable information on artificial intelligence use on campus could lead to misguided policies.

Are you familiar with pop tubes? Resembling the corrugated section of a bendy straw, they are at the core of PopTuber, an intriguing research project from the Actuated Experience Lab at the University of Chicago.

A new tool born from a community partnership is supporting Native voters to navigate an ID system that wasn't built with them in mind.