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David Keith, UChicago Geophysical Sciences Professor and Founding Faculty Director of the Climate Systems Engineering initiative, has a proposal to slow global warming: he wants to spray a pollutant into the sky to block some sunlight. He says the benefits would outweigh the danger.

Machine unlearning techniques cleanse generative AI models of unwanted elements. A recent collaborative study that included University of Chicago scientists highlights a troubling trade-off: while striving to purge irrelevant data, these techniques can severely impair the AI’s basic cognitive functions.

Bryan Dickinson, Margaret Gardel, and Vincenzo Vitelli will study topics related to inflammation and the functions of the immune system.
 

UChicago’s Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics celebrates 20 years of discovery.

A UChicago and Fermilab-led experiment reported the ability to enhance signals from dark matter waves using novel quantum techniques. This work will help advance dark matter research, allowing scientists to save both time and resources.

Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have observed new details about the boundary of a tidally locked planet—where half of the planet is always exposed to its star while the other is always shrouded in darkness. University of Chicago's Maria Steinrueck, Jacob Bean, and Diana Powell were co-authors of the paper presenting these results.

PhD student Romain Nith, research collaborator Yun Ho, and Associate Professor Pedro Lopes propose increasing the efficiency of multitasking by incorporating electrical muscle stimulation called “SplitBody.”

UChicago researchers have created Glaze and Nightshade, programs aimed at protecting artists' work from AI scraping. Artists and researchers are embracing these tools as a first step toward fighting against unregulated AI practices.

In work that has been 30 years in the making, mathematicians have proven a major part of a profound mathematical vision called the Langlands program. Justin Campbell and Kevin Lin from the University of Chicago are part of this team of researchers.

Propelled by UChicago’s Climate Systems Engineering initiative, a group of scientists has published a landmark report. It represents the first public effort by glaciologists to assess potential technological interventions that could help address catastrophic sea-level rise scenarios.

New research by Hao Yan and Weixin Tang at the University of Chicago explores the capabilities of an evolved bacterial adenosine deaminase, DECOR, to enhance RNA editing technology. This advancement will expand gene therapy efficiency by successfully targeting and editing disease-causing RNA sequences.

On Wednesday, July 10, at the IDM conference in L’Aquila, Italy, the XENONnT collaboration announced the first measurement of low-energy nuclear recoils from neutrinos produced by nuclear reactions inside the sun.

This year marks the 75th anniversary of Goeppert Mayer’s publication of the nuclear shell model. The 2024 Nuclear Structure Conference at Argonne will showcase recent experimental and theoretical advances and highlight Maria Goeppert Mayer's contribution to nuclear physics.

Scientists have long known that melting glaciers contribute significantly to rising sea levels. However, the complex ways they move deep within are not fully understood, a process critical to understanding this melting. Two MIT researchers, including incoming GeoSci Asst. Prof. Meghana Ranganathan, have created the first usable model to analyze movements across the Antarctic Ice Sheet, looking at how ice flows in the glacier’s core.

CacheGen, developed by researchers from the University of Chicago, Stanford, and Microsoft, and led by UChicago computer scientist Junchen Jiang, promises to revolutionize LLM efficiency by addressing the critical challenge of processing long contexts.