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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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

New data on the cosmic microwave background released from upgrade with 10 times more detectors.

Daily Northwestern article highlights a talk on improving decision-making in AI given by Asst. Prof. Chenhao Tan.

Metal-organic framework (MOF) materials can be used in many different applications, from catalysts to energy converters.

Physicists Baudouin Saintyves and Heinrich Jaeger develop a modular robot with liquid and solid properties.

Surface observations indicate that Mars’s early climate supported liquid water—rivers and lakes—for over a billion years. But like Earth, which has experienced both global ice ages and extreme heat over the past eon, Mars’s climate history may have been intermittent.

Stuart Rowan and team developed a material called a “pluripotent plastic,” which has the ability to take on many forms.

Scientists from UChicago, Harvard, and Yale propose model that could apply across a wide range of organisms.