2026
Nutrient in breast milk helps boosts immune system development in mice
August 10, 2026
UChicago researchers, including chemist Chuan He, shed light on how a trans fatty acid increases production of immune cells.
Making these nanocrystals has stumped chemists for 30 years
August 10, 2026
Colloidal gallium nitride and titanium nitride nanocrystals could enable printed displays and implant coatings.
Watch: This coffee-filled robot gripper can pick up fragile objects without complex sensors
August 10, 2026
The gripper picks up fragile and irregular objects, from raw eggs to scissors, without custom programming or sensors.
Quantum computers outperform classical ones, with results you can trust
August 10, 2026
Three approaches to the issue of quantum results that can’t be verified classically.
IBM claims new era of ‘quantum advantage’
August 10, 2026
Big Blue is racing to show that its quantum computing business can be profitable following a historic stock tumble.
How much do you really need to know to control a complex system?
August 10, 2026
UChicago chemists show that local, imperfect information can be enough to learn control protocols in several carefully defined systems. What might that mean for biology, and for how we think about AI models of cells?
How Trump’s “America first” administration could shut U.S. scientists out of the next Nobel-worthy discovery
August 10, 2026
A proposed White House rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over scientific funding. UChicago physicist David Miller, who helped discover the Higgs boson, explains how the rule would’ve stifled that breakthrough.
Forecasting once-in-a-millennium weather with the help of AI
August 6, 2026
UChicago researchers combine AI with statistics and physics to better estimate the odds of rare weather events.
First AI-driven telescope goes stargazing
August 5, 2026
New AI system successfully schedules observations on a major national telescope.
Could life exist on this nearby world? In a first, astronomers find an atmosphere on an Earth-like exoplanet in the habitable zone
August 3, 2026
While the celestial body seems to host three features that could make a livable environment—an atmosphere, a rocky composition and a temperature that could allow liquid water to sit on the surface—researchers have not currently detected any residents.
Terraforming Mars gets first scientific roadmap in decades, with one ethical prerequisite
August 3, 2026
A multi-institution team says warming Mars is feasible; finding out whether life exists there must come first.
Remotely operated, robotic lab receives $20 million National Science Foundation grant
August 3, 2026
AI-powered PoLARIS Project will execute science experiments remotely, allowing underserved researchers across the nation access to create novel soft materials from afar.
Argonne marks 80 years of scientific discovery
August 3, 2026
At the national laboratory, the first light bulbs lit by nuclear power have given way to supercomputers, quantum research and nanoscale engineering.
Distant exoplanets may be hiding water beyond Webb telescope’s reach, study finds
July 27, 2026
UChicago scientists offer new way to read atmospheric data on a vast class of 'sub-Neptune' worlds.
Chemists shrink gallium nitride, the material behind LED lighting, into nanocrystals
July 27, 2026
Molten-salt method from UChicago and Argonne could unlock durable materials for printed electronics, flexible devices.