News: Research

2023

Rising ​“snow” deep in the Earth

July 18, 2023

Vitali Prakapenka

Researchers, including UChicago beamline scientist Vitali Prakapenka, have combined X-ray and laser techniques to illuminate the origin of mysterious deep-Earth structures.


Researchers discover another step in how your cells assemble

July 12, 2023

Greg Voth

UChicago chemists, including Gregory Voth, use simulation to reveal key mechanism in microtubule growth.


The 4 biggest questions JWST will answer in its second year

July 12, 2023

Michael Zhang

Article mentions astronomy and astrophysics postdoctoral fellow Michael Zhang's plan to measure the spectrum of light from exoplanet TOI 2445b, a rocky world about twice the size of Earth that orbits perilously close to its host star.


A look at the weird intersection of taxidermy and car design

July 11, 2023

A wrist and hand sporting an experimental device called at Slime Mold Smart Watch, with a close up of living slime housed in the watch.

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

The installation team in front of the Aurora supercomputer

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

Yi Sun

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

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