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UChicago scientists team up to deliver lithium with fewer side effects in an innovative biomedical patch.

The event, to be held December 8 – 10 at the Marriott Marquis Chicago and McCormick Place, combines Q2B’s quantum business, practical application, and investor strength with the Chicago Quantum Summit’s integrated focus on research, scale-up, and economic development, offering opportunities for participants to engage with thought leaders, explore partnerships, and build skills across the full discovery-to-deployment spectrum.

Leveraging programmable RNA translational activation, the Dickinson Group will work to address EHMT1 haploinsufficiency in rare disease.

The Human-Centered Weather Forecasts Initiative’s collaboration with the Ethiopian Meteorological Institute will establish an Africa-focused framework for AI-powered weather forecasting and build the local capacity needed to provide farmers with timely and actionable information.

Argonne’s chip compresses and processes detector data instantly, letting scientists analyze results and steer experiments as they happen.

Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source unlocks secrets of high-temperature superconductors.

Third-year PhD student Lan Gao studies how social platforms govern a changing online ecosystem.

UChicago scientists team up with Chicago Public Schools to test if robots need fictional personalities to teach effectively.

Eight new projects led by University of Chicago faculty and researchers will deepen understanding of climate interventions and their potential tradeoffs.

Researchers, including members of the University of Chicago, find the lowest abundance of iron in any ultra-faint dwarf galaxy, reshaping our understanding of cosmic chemistry. 

At the University of Chicago’s Existential Risk Laboratory, researchers study how emerging technologies like AI could amplify global threats such as nuclear war.
 

New research shows why some shelly critters flourished in the ocean’s harshest habitats — and others didn’t.

Ripples in the fabric of space-time called gravitational waves may be the key to solving the Hubble tension — one of the biggest nagging problems in physics.
 

A team of scientists says it's possible to use tiny ripples in space and time, or gravitational waves, to measure the rate at which our universe is expanding. This could solve one of the biggest mysteries in physics today, a disparity in calculating this rate known as the "Hubble tension."

A proposed five-satellite Cosmic Positioning System could measure cosmic distances directly and help address discrepancies in the Hubble constant through solar system–scale triangulation.