News: Research

Two young Chinese mathematicians, including associate professor of mathematics Yu Deng, along with an international collaborator, may have solved a century-old problem in fluid mechanics--an area of study that is critical to many engineering fields, including hydraulic systems, the design of dams and bridges, and aerodynamics. [paywall]

UChicago astronomer Jacob Bean is playing a critical role in groundbreaking research of atmospheres on exoplanets.

A UChicago team is creating software to combat AI’s ability to use artists’ work. Computer science professor Ben Zhao sits down with WBEZ Chicago to discuss the project.

A lab at UChicago is protecting artists from theft by a new adversary: the machines.

A new UChicago study from the Department of Computer Science reveals how Netflix’s autoplay feature subtly shapes viewing habits. The research highlights how turning off autoplay resulted in behavioral changes in participants, including reduced viewing time and increased awareness of media consumption.

Chicago’s Adler Planetarium message board hosts conversations between staffers, scholars, and some of the roughly 2.8 million volunteers in Zooniverse, the world’s largest platform for crowdsourced research online. Starting around late 2023, staffers noticed a flurry of uncertainty and discomfort from volunteers centered around machine learning. The Zooniverse team recognized that this discomfort required a larger conversation. A grant from The Kavli Foundation will enable that conversation exploring the ethics of machine learning in citizen science in partnership with the University of Chicago’s Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics (KICP); the Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public at the University of California, Berkeley; and the National Science Foundation-Simons SkAI Institute.

A team of geologists and mineral physicists at Harvard University, the University of California, Argonne National Laboratory, and the University of Chicago has found evidence via lab experiments that show the Earth's mantle is far more complex than previously known.

In a new research project, UChicago Prof. Nicolas Dauphas and a team of scientists used rocks gathered during the Apollo missions to learn more about the Moon's origins.
 

A new article provides insights into the extreme atmosphere of a rare ultra-hot Neptune. Michael Radica, a postdoctoral researcher in Astronomy and Astrophysics, was second author of this study.

UChicago scientists study samples from Apollo missions, revealing new details about lunar history.

A new UChicago study uses seismological “background noise” from worldwide monitoring network to study Arctic.

Argonne National Laboratory, a national laboratory affiliated with the University of Chicago, has fully opened its Aurora exascale supercomputer to researchers across the world, heralding a new era of computing-driven discoveries.

UChicago researchers unveil insights into random quantum circuits, exploring the speed at which random circuits scramble information. These findings, to be presented at the Quantum Information Processing Conference, are crucial for understanding quantum supremacy experiments as well as the future of quantum cryptography.

In a new interview, Chemistry Professor Chuan He talks about the new findings in cancer research.

A type of gemstone called spinel can be used to store quantum information, according to new research from a collaboration involving University of Chicago, Tohoku University, and Argonne National Laboratory.