News: Research

UChicago-led analysis of Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover data may explain why the planet was likely harsh desert for most of the recent past.

Edward Anders, who passed away June 1st at the age of 98, helped to map the history of the solar system and documented the Holocaust. 

Rebecca Willett, the Data Science Institute's Faculty Director of AI, gave a public lecture at the National Museum of Mathematics highlighting core ideas underlying AI.

Hank Snowdon joined the Seattle Mariners with a lifelong love of baseball and a powerful new data science skill set. He’s now helping shape player decisions in one of Major League Baseball’s front offices.

University of Chicago chemist Stuart Rowan develops temperature-responsive materials that could improve manufacturing and 3D printing.

A new study from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, including UChicago chemists Greg Engel and Dmitri Talapin, could help scientists and engineers better understand how to tune quantum dots—tiny semiconductor nanocrystals that harness quantum mechanics to release energy as light—for different technologies.

Mina Rees, PhD’31 (1902–97), was the first woman elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and helped scientific research flourish.

Edwin Kite discusses the parallels between Earth's and Mars's carbon cycles and the implications. 

By discovering carbonate rocks, NASA's Mars rovers may have unlocked the key to understanding the fate of the Red Planet's climate, featuring research by Edwin Kite. 

The University-operated MAROON-X instrument has recently discovered GJ 12 b, an Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting an inactive M dwarf star. 

Emerging ‘co-scientist’ systems use chatbots to mimic the deliberations of a research group. Nature asked researchers to test them out, with Rick Stevens speaking on his experience. 

New method promises enhanced understanding of chemical reactions and material properties.

John Hood and a team of other scientists discuss their scientific interests, research projects, and personal motivations for working in astronomy as a part of Black Space Week 2025.

Wendy Freedman and her research was featured on the Science Friday podcast discussing whether a new model of the universe needs to be created. 

A team led by Astro grad student Samantha Usman used the Magellan Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile to discover that the cluster has lost 95% of its initial mass due to tidal disruptions.