2023
A look at the weird intersection of taxidermy and car design
July 11, 2023
Article mentions the slime mold watch developed by computer scientist Pedro Lopes and doctoral candidate Jasmine Lu.
Argonne installs final components of Aurora supercomputer
July 7, 2023
New exascale machine is one step closer to enabling transformative science.
Image courtesy Argonne National Laboratory
Axiom’s zero-knowledge proofs might one day help detect deepfakes
July 6, 2023
Assistant professor of statistics Yi Sun discusses his startup Axiom developing technology to quickly and accurately detect deepfakes on the internet.
UChicago team wins the NIH Long COVID Computational Challenge
June 30, 2023
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
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
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
Computer science professor Rick Stevens discusses the capabilities of Argonne's supercomputer, Aurora.
Infrastructure woes could slow South Pole telescope plans
June 23, 2023
Astrophysicist John Carlstrom discusses the launch of CMB-S4.
Photography by Keith Vanderlinde
Designing a less toxic method for MXene synthesis
June 20, 2023
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.