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Research by PhD Student Pranav Gokhale and EPiQC Wins IBM Q Best Paper

With a CDAC Discovery Grant, physicist David Miller and computer scientist Yuxin Chen hope to build a "self-driving" system for selecting and analyzing data from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN

James Franck Institute physicist Prof. Vincenzo Vitelli and his group push the boundaries between materials and machines. In a new Nature Physics paper, they explain "active materials” could inspire new technology

Oriental Institute, Computer Science scholars collaborate on program to read cuneiform tablets

UChicago female chemist Tosh Mayeda went from an internment camp to studying the chemistry of the solar system

UChicago computer scientists propose Fawkes, a system that allow individuals to inoculate themselves against unauthorized facial recognition models

Scientists Shiva Safaei, Prof. David Mazziotti, and LeeAnn Sager discuss a prediction that dual states of matter can exist in the same material—which may be useful for applications

Feeding 10 billion people on Earth is possible—and sustainable, scientists say. New findings featuring co-author Jonas Jägermeyr, a postdoctoral research in Computer Science, has been published in Nature Sustainability

Adina Feinstein, a NSF Graduate Research Fellow at UChicago, talks about the difficulties of finding young planets

New coronavirus protein, mapped in Chicago, reveals drug target. UChicago part of team that solved the structure.

Wired Magazine covers Astronomy Prof. Wendy Freedman and team's use of the “tip of the red giant branch” (TRGB) stars to arrive at a significantly lower Hubble rate than other observers

SciTechDaily profiles Dark Energy Survey and how new instrumentation may give the best insight yet into how dark energy has behaved over time

A discovery by Chemistry Prof. David Mazziotti, Dr. Shiva Safaei, and graduate student LeeAnn Sager addresses the problem of generating and moving energy efficiently

This month PSD researchers have been featured for taking the most detailed images of the sun's surface, creating a new technique to analyze moon rocks, and designing several components for the detectors for the ATLAS experiment.

Assoc. Prof. David Schuster and grad students Akash Dixit and Ankur Agrawal are searching for dark matter with quantum computers, one blip of light at a time