2025
Black in cosmology
July 10, 2025
John Hood and a team of other scientists discuss their scientific interests, research projects, and personal motivations for working in astronomy as a part of Black Space Week 2025.
Is it time for a new model of the universe?
July 10, 2025
Wendy Freedman and her research was featured on the Science Friday podcast discussing whether a new model of the universe needs to be created.
ESO 280-SC06 is a tidally disrupted globular cluster that has lost almost all its mass, observations reveal
July 10, 2025
A team led by Astro grad student Samantha Usman used the Magellan Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile to discover that the cluster has lost 95% of its initial mass due to tidal disruptions.
Six ways Argonne is advancing quantum information research
July 3, 2025
During the International Year of Quantum, Argonne celebrates its advances in quantum computing, communications, sensing and materials.
Spring Distinguished Speaker Series fosters conversations on the future of AI with leaders in the field
July 3, 2025
Professors Margo Seltzer, Tom Griffiths, and Moshe Vardi spoke about the metascience of data science, AI’s limitations, and tradeoffs between efficiency vs. resilience with AI.
A quantum leap in health care
July 3, 2025
UChicago alumni learn how qubits and entanglement can create a healthier future in a recent Harper Lecture.
Chemistry students partner with artist to recreate pigment patented by George Washington Carver
July 3, 2025
UChicago students and artist Amanda Williams revive 100-year-old recipe for a startling blue color.
Latest data from South Pole Telescope signals ‘new era’ for measuring the first light in the universe
July 3, 2025
Study of the cosmic microwave background adds new depth to our understanding of universe.
Committee recommends U.S. build Muon Collider in report on future of particle physics
July 3, 2025
UChicago scientists help lay out vision for the next 20-plus years of the field.
Democratizing digital graphics: An undergrad’s unlikely path to putting agency of 3D-generation in users’ hands
June 28, 2025
Hyunwoo (Brian) Kim ‘25, a recent grad of UChicago, creates MeshUp to improve user agency and control over 3D-generated graphics.
Five DSI scholars set to continue in academia
June 28, 2025
Congratulations to concluding postdocs Julia Mendelsohn, Vasilis Charisopoulos, YJ Choe, and Yuetian Luo, and preceptor Susanna Lange.
Giulia Galli wins Berni J. Alder CECAM Prize
June 28, 2025
The global award, given once every three years, recognizes exceptional contributions to the field of microscopic simulation of matter.
Precision and ingenuity drive construction of DUNE detector components
June 28, 2025
DUNE studies matter-antimatter asymmetry using precision detectors built with expert skill, clever machines, and extreme attention to detail.
The DSI welcomes summer students to explore the world of research
June 28, 2025
The Data Science for Social Impact Summer Experience and Summer Lab programs kick off this week.
Asteroid speck at the Field Museum could hold the key to life
June 28, 2025
UChicago PhD candidate Yuke Zheng leads research on a 4.6-billion-year-old piece of rock that could reveal compounds present at the beginning of the solar system and the building blocks of life.