2024
First-ever atomic freeze-frame of liquid water
February 15, 2024
Scientists report the first look at electrons moving in real-time in liquid water; findings open up a whole new field of experimental physics.
Initial results from South Pole Telescope SPT-3G camera hint at future insights about our universe
February 14, 2024
New data on the cosmic microwave background released from upgrade with 10 times more detectors.
University of Chicago professor talks human-centered AI, improved decision making at Technology and Social Behavior Colloquium
February 14, 2024
Daily Northwestern article highlights a talk on improving decision-making in AI given by Asst. Prof. Chenhao Tan.
Argonne scientists use AI to identify new materials for carbon capture
February 14, 2024
Metal-organic framework (MOF) materials can be used in many different applications, from catalysts to energy converters.
The Granulobot
February 14, 2024
Physicists Baudouin Saintyves and Heinrich Jaeger develop a modular robot with liquid and solid properties.
The seven transitions of Mars climate
February 13, 2024
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.
UChicago scientists develop a plastic that can be re-formed as needed
February 9, 2024
Stuart Rowan and team developed a material called a “pluripotent plastic,” which has the ability to take on many forms.
A surprisingly simple model can explain how brain cells organize and connect
February 9, 2024
Scientists from UChicago, Harvard, and Yale propose model that could apply across a wide range of organisms.
Where do cosmic rays come from?
February 8, 2024
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.
New research unites quantum engineering and artificial intelligence
February 2, 2024
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.
NeurIPS 2023 award-winning paper by DSI faculty Bo Li, DecodingTrust, provides a comprehensive framework for assessing trustworthiness of GPT models
February 2, 2024
In a year with a record-breaking number of paper submissions, Bo Li was awarded the NeurIPS Outstanding Paper Award.
NetMicroscope uses AI to improve network monitoring for a better internet experience
February 2, 2024
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.
The colossal caverns for Fermilab’s DUNE experiment have been fully excavated
February 2, 2024
Milestone for Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, under construction to search for clues about mysterious particles.
Revealed: HIV’s trick for invading the nucleus of a host’s cell
February 2, 2024
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.
A shape-shifting plastic with a flexible future
February 2, 2024
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.