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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.

Space.com article cites UChicago research finding that over 90% of cosmic rays are hydrogen nuclei, 9% are the atomic nuclei of helium, and 1% are the nuclei of heavy elements like iron.

Researchers at Pritzker Molecular Engineering, including CQE IBM postdoctoral scholar Junyu Liu of UChicago CS, and collaborators show in a new paper how incorporating quantum computing into the classical machine learning process can potentially help make machine learning more sustainable and efficient.

In a year with a record-breaking number of paper submissions, Bo Li was awarded the NeurIPS Outstanding Paper Award.

Nick Feamster's NetMicroscope has developed a tool that lets customers monitor their network and extract meaningful data – enabling intervention before any problems become issues for the users.

Milestone for Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, under construction to search for clues about mysterious particles.

ScienceAlert article features Prof. Gregory Voth's research using computer modeling to aid in understanding how the Human Immunodeficiency Virus – better known as HIV – breaks into the nucleus of a cell, enabling it to replicate and spread.

NYT article features research led by Prof. Stuart Rowan that developed a new type of plastic with properties that can be set with heat and then locked in with rapid cooling, a process known as tempering; unlike classic plastics, the material retains this stiffness when returned to room temperature.

In a recent study published in collaboration between UChicago and UW Madison, researchers have uncovered new insights into how nitrogen centers couple together under copper catalysis. Their work challenges conventional wisdom and opens new avenues in the field of chemical reactivity.

In a Venture Beat article, CS Prof. Ben Zhao comments on the fact that his lab's tool "Nightshade" has received 250,000 downloads in the five days since its release, saying that "the response is simply beyond anything we imagined."