News: Research

2024

VR headsets can be hacked with an Inception-style attack

March 15, 2024

Heather Zheng

For an MIT Technology Review article, CS Prof. Heather Zheng discusses her recent research on the vulnerability of VR sets to "inception attacks."


Climate change causes faster jet streams, flights

March 1, 2024

Tiffany Shaw

Prof. Tiffany Shaw discusses faster jet streams for a WFLA (Tampa) video.


New pacemaker design powers the heart with light

March 1, 2024

Bozhi Tian

Prof. Bozhi Tian and Doctoral Candidate Pengju Li discuss newly designed pacemaker powered by light in a WGN video. 


FabRobotics: the fusion of 3D printing and mobile robots

March 1, 2024

3d printer with partially printed figure

The FabRobotics team from UChicago and MIT seamlessly incorporates mobile robots into the 3D printing process to improve automation and efficiency.


Professor Andrew A. Chien on the environmental impacts of technology

March 1, 2024

Andrew A. Chien

Andrew A. Chien’s research on sustainable cloud computing and his interdisciplinary course, Sustainable Computing, provides insight into an often overlooked problem.


Here’s how you can help Chicago get better internet service

March 1, 2024

hand using a mouse next to keyboard

For Block Club Chicago, Prof. Nicole Marwell--part of DSI's Internet Equity Initiative--discusses the Illinois BEAD challenge.


Resurrecting niobium for quantum science

March 1, 2024

microscopic image of niobium Josephson junction

For years, niobium was considered an underperformer when it came to superconducting qubits. Now scientists supported by Q-NEXT have found a way to engineer a high-performing niobium-based qubit and so take advantage of niobium’s superior qualities.


PalmWatch, a new tool created by DSI’s 11th Hour team, sheds light on palm oil production across the globe

February 23, 2024

aerial view of palm trees

PalmWatch, a new tool jointly created by DSI and Inclusive Development International, tracks deforestation by palm oil mills and connects that information to major, multinational brands’ sourcing.


UChicago scientists invent ultra-thin, minimally-invasive pacemaker controlled by light

February 23, 2024

Pengju Li holds a prototype pacemaker made of a specially engineered membrane

Ultralight membrane can regulate heartbeats with the aid of an optic fiber.

University of Chicago materials researcher Pengju Li holds a prototype pacemaker made of a specially engineered membrane. At just one-fiftieth of a gram, it is significantly smaller and lighter than current pacemakers.


Giant Magellan Telescope expands global science impact with Taiwanese partner

February 20, 2024

Giant Magellan Telescope illustration

Through ASIAA, Taiwan joins Australia, Brazil, Chile, Israel, South Korea, and the United States in building one of the world’s largest and most powerful telescopes.


Deepfake porn is a huge problem — here are some of the tools that could help stop it

February 19, 2024

Create AI Girls graphic

Business Insider article mentions Prof. Ben Zhao's "Nightshade."


Solar geoengineering looks to Silicon Valley for new wave of funding

February 19, 2024

Portrait of David Keith against a brick wall

Scientific American article mentions that UChicago is one of several global universities that have begun actively researching solar geoengineering.


New ‘Magic’ Gmail security uses AI and is here now, Google says

February 19, 2024

Google logo over binary code

Forbes article mentions that UChicago is among the universities set to receive $2 million in research grants from Google to help advance breakthroughs in AI-powered security including code verification enhancement and the development of large language models that can be more resilient to threats.


Scientists report first look at electrons moving in real-time in liquid water

February 19, 2024

Linda Young in black on purple background

In a Phys.org article, Prof. Linda Young discusses a new experiment that isolates the energetic movement of an electron while "freezing" the motion of the much larger atom it orbits in a sample of liquid water.


First-ever atomic freeze-frame of liquid water

February 15, 2024

Close up of water spray

Scientists report the first look at electrons moving in real-time in liquid water; findings open up a whole new field of experimental physics.