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Astrophysicist John Carlstrom discusses the launch of CMB-S4.

Photography by Keith Vanderlinde 

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

Image by Di Wang

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

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

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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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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.”

Article mentions UChicago research on solar winds.

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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.

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.

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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. 

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. 

In a study presented on May 23-26th at the 44th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, researchers at the University of Chicago developed a framework to systematically evaluate existing anti-facial recognition tools and describe how creators of similar tools can design them to be even more resilient to the evolving landscape of facial recognition.

The death throes of a massive star in the galaxy M101, located just 21 million light-years away from Earth, are entrancing professional and amateur astronomers alike

In 1942, Enrico Fermi and a group of scientists gathered beneath the football stands at the University of Chicago to feverishly work on a secret experiment—to achieve the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction—that would that would change the world forever.

$100 million from IBM to help develop quantum-centric supercomputer; $50 million from Google to support quantum research and workforce development.