News: Research

2023

UChicago team wins the NIH Long COVID Computational Challenge

June 30, 2023

Fangfang Xia

The team, which includes a third-year Ph.D. student and two scientists from Argonne National Laboratory, built a real-time monitoring system that updates a patient’s risk for developing Long COVID as new clinical events occur.

Image: Computer scientist and CS alumnus Fangfang Xia


Glaze 1.0 modifies art to block AI-generated imitations

June 29, 2023

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Article discusses an open source tool Glaze 1.0 developed by UChicago computer scientists that protects artwork by shifting pixels around on images, making them more difficult for AIs to ingest.


John B. Goodenough, Nobel-winning creator of the lithium-ion battery, dies at 100

June 26, 2023

John B Goodenough

An unassuming professor who remained active into his 90s, Goodenough is credited with the breakthrough that gave rise to the batteries powering today’s electronic devices.

Photo courtesy of University of Texas at Austin

 


Argonne finishes building its most powerful supercomputer yet

June 23, 2023

Aerial view of Argonne National Laboratory building

Computer science professor Rick Stevens discusses the capabilities of Argonne's supercomputer, Aurora.


Infrastructure woes could slow South Pole telescope plans

June 23, 2023

South Pole Telescope lit in pink with navy sky and stars beyond

Astrophysicist John Carlstrom discusses the launch of CMB-S4.

Photography by Keith Vanderlinde 


Designing a less toxic method for MXene synthesis

June 20, 2023

Black and white microscopic image of MXenes

Prof. Dmitri Talapin, Doctoral Candidate Di Wang, and Postdoctoral Researcher Chenkun Zhou discuss a new method to synthesize MXenes.

Image by Di Wang


Flow proof helps mathematicians find stability in chaos

June 16, 2023

Headshot of Amie Wilkinson

Prof. Amie Wilkinson discusses a series of new papers that describe how to reconstruct key dynamical systems with relatively little data.


Tempest in a teacup: UChicago physicists make breakthrough in creating turbulence

June 15, 2023

A fuzzy purple, pink, orange, and yellow ball on black background--a visualization of the average energy density of a

Scientists, including physicist William Irvine, create contained ball of turbulence in a tank that could help answer longstanding questions.

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Image courtesy Takumi Matsuzawa


The clams that fell behind, and what they can tell us about evolution and extinction

June 15, 2023

Black and white micro-CT scans of 460-million-year-old bivalves Anomalodonta (left) and Vanuxemia (right)

UChicago scientists, including David Jablonski, the William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Service Professor of Geophysical Sciences, study how bivalves evolved after the Cambrian Explosion.

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Images courtesy Stewart Edie


‘Breakthrough’ could explain why life molecules are left- or right-handed

June 14, 2023

Jack Szostak in a blue sweater, grey blazer, standing in a lab

Prof. Jack Szostak comments on several new papers that suggest a path for key biomolecules to have accumulated on Earth's surface in just one mirror image form, saying “it’s a real breakthrough...homochirality is essential to get biology started, and this is a possible—and I would say very likely—solution.”


NASA mission to the sun answers questions about solar wind that causes aurora borealis

June 9, 2023

glowing, green-hued aurora, seen above surface of Earth from ISS, with solar array in partial view

Article mentions UChicago research on solar winds.

​​​​​​​Image courtesy NASA


U of C, France scientific partnership a win for Chicago as a research, tech hub

June 8, 2023

Arial shot of UChicago Hyde Park campus

Juan de Pablo, executive vice president for science, innovation, national laboratories and global initiatives, discusses a partnership establishing the International Research Center for Fundamental Scientific Discovery in Hyde Park.


How solar wind flows from the sun like water from a shower head

June 8, 2023

Artist rendition of the Parker Solar Probe in front of the sun

Article discusses the latest discoveries of NASA’s Parker probe, which is named after the late Eugene N. Parker, a UChicago astrophysicist who first predicted the existence of solar wind in 1958.

Image courtesy NASA


PSD in the news: May 2023

May 31, 2023

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This month PSD researchers have been recognized for their pioneering discoveries, the quality and innovation of their research programs, and their unique contributions to new fields of inquiry. 


Prof. Vladimir Drinfeld wins 2023 Shaw Prize in the Mathematical Sciences

May 31, 2023

Portrait of Vladimir Drinfeld outdoors in University of Chicago Hyde Park campus

Vladimir Drinfeld, Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor of Mathematics at the University of Chicago, wins 2023 Shaw Prize in the  Mathematical Sciences for his contributions related to mathematical physics and to arithmetic geometry.