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Andrea Ghez, UChicago Laboratory Schools alum, wins Nobel Prize in Physics

“Bracelet of Silence” Named Finalist in 2020 Fast Company Design Awards

A new study, published in Science Advances, demonstrates the use of charged nanoscale metal-organic frameworks for generating free radicals using X-rays within tumor tissue to kill cancer cells directly. Furthermore, the same frameworks can be used for delivering immune signaling molecules known as PAMPs to activate the immune response against tumor cells. By combining these two approaches into one easily administered “vaccine,” this new technology may provide the key to better local and systemic treatment of difficult-to-treat cancers.

Possibility of dark bosons entices physicists like Elina Fuchs of Enrico Fermi Institute. Hints of anomalous activity in heavy isotopes could be clues to new physics

UChicago chemists invent way to customize compounds just a few atoms thick
 

The University of Chicago's Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics (KICP) has secured $10 million in new funding through two gifts: a $5 million gift from an anonymous alumnus and his wife and a match of $5 million from The Kavli Foundation. The first gift will name the directorship of the Institute in memory of Prof. David N. Schramm, a legendary professor of theoretical astrophysics at the University of Chicago.
 

Event Horizon Telescope, including UChicago-led South Pole Telescope, reveals turbulent evolution

Five UChicago CS Students Named in 2021 Class of Seibel Scholars

This summer the Physical Sciences Division announced several institutional advancements, like the Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation, major NSF support for materials science research, and exciting developments with CMB collaborations. Read the full list of articles for July, August, and September.

Climate change will ultimately cost humanity $100,000 per ton of carbon, scientists estimate

Prof. John Carlstrom comments on UChicago's leadership among a 93-institution coalition to use telescopes at the South Pole and Chile

LIGO/Virgo has spotted a collision of dark giants that sheds light on an invisible process of cosmic growth

UChicago scientists invent first-of-its-kind method for pacemakers, other applications

UChicago joins three universities in Institute for Foundational Data Science

UChicago scientists share knowledge, research with the public—now with a virtual beer