News: Research

2020

UChicago computer scientists propose Fawkes, a system fighting unauthorized facial recognition models

March 10, 2020

Ben Zhao

UChicago computer scientists propose Fawkes, a system that allow individuals to inoculate themselves against unauthorized facial recognition models


A theory for generating and moving energy efficiently

March 10, 2020

LeeAnn Sager, Prof. David Mazziotti, and Shiva Safaei

Scientists Shiva Safaei, Prof. David Mazziotti, and LeeAnn Sager discuss a prediction that dual states of matter can exist in the same material—which may be useful for applications


Feeding 10 billion people on Earth is possible—and sustainable, scientists say

March 9, 2020

farmland

Feeding 10 billion people on Earth is possible—and sustainable, scientists say. New findings featuring co-author Jonas Jägermeyr, a postdoctoral research in Computer Science, has been published in Nature Sustainability


Scientists seize rare chance to watch faraway star system evolve

March 4, 2020

a young planet

Adina Feinstein, a NSF Graduate Research Fellow at UChicago, talks about the difficulties of finding young planets


New coronavirus protein, mapped in Chicago, reveals drug target

March 2, 2020

Corona Virus protein

New coronavirus protein, mapped in Chicago, reveals drug target. UChicago part of team that solved the structure.


Wired Magazine covers Astro Prof. Wendy Freedman’s work on the Hubble Constant

March 2, 2020

TRGB Stars

Wired Magazine covers Astronomy Prof. Wendy Freedman and team's use of the “tip of the red giant branch” (TRGB) stars to arrive at a significantly lower Hubble rate than other observers


Building a 3D map of the universe to uncover the mysteries of dark energy

February 28, 2020

Fermi Lab Dark Energy Survey Telescope

SciTechDaily profiles Dark Energy Survey and how new instrumentation may give the best insight yet into how dark energy has behaved over time


UChicago scientists predict new state of matter

February 25, 2020

Shiva Safaei, David Mazziotti, and LeeAnn Sager

A discovery by Chemistry Prof. David Mazziotti, Dr. Shiva Safaei, and graduate student LeeAnn Sager addresses the problem of generating and moving energy efficiently


PSD in the News - February 2020

February 25, 2020

Physical Sciences data map logo

This month PSD researchers have been featured for taking the most detailed images of the sun's surface, creating a new technique to analyze moon rocks, and designing several components for the detectors for the ATLAS experiment.


Assoc. Prof. David Schuster and Fermilab scientist Daniel Bowring use quantum computing to explore dark matter

February 20, 2020

quantum computing experiment at Fermilab

Assoc. Prof. David Schuster and grad students Akash Dixit and Ankur Agrawal are searching for dark matter with quantum computers, one blip of light at a time


Scientists at Argonne and UChicago entangled photons across a 52-mile quantum loop network

February 19, 2020

Argonne and University of Chicago scientists

Scientists at Argonne and UChicago entangled photons across a 52-mile quantum loop network, helping to lay the foundations for a national quantum internet


Scientific American covers the debate around Astronomy Prof. Wendy Freedman’s research on the rates of the universe

February 19, 2020

purple orbs

Research on the rate of the universe may point to a New Physics


New York Times features UChicago Computer Science wearable jammer project

February 17, 2020

jammable bracelet by Pedro Lopes

Computer Science professors Pedro Lopes, Ben Zhao, and Heather Zheng developed wearable defenses against listening devices such as Alexa


University of Chicago to build instrumentation for upgrades to the Large Hadron Collider

February 13, 2020

Large Hadron Collider

With $5.5M in new federal funding, faculty, students, engineers to design several components for ATLAS experiment detector


Astronomy Professor Robert Rosner discusses recent breakthrough solar imagery on Chicago Tonight

February 13, 2020

Bob Rosner on video

Prof. Rosner explains Inouye Telescope advancements and why new imagery is exciting