News: Research

Prof. Tiffany Shaw discusses faster jet streams for a WFLA (Tampa) video.

Prof. Bozhi Tian and Doctoral Candidate Pengju Li discuss newly designed pacemaker powered by light in a WGN video. 

The FabRobotics team from UChicago and MIT seamlessly incorporates mobile robots into the 3D printing process to improve automation and efficiency.

Andrew A. Chien’s research on sustainable cloud computing and his interdisciplinary course, Sustainable Computing, provides insight into an often overlooked problem.

For Block Club Chicago, Prof. Nicole Marwell--part of DSI's Internet Equity Initiative--discusses the Illinois BEAD challenge.

For years, niobium was considered an underperformer when it came to superconducting qubits. Now scientists supported by Q-NEXT have found a way to engineer a high-performing niobium-based qubit and so take advantage of niobium’s superior qualities.

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.