News: 2025

The Physical Sciences Division has selected three graduate students to receive a William Rainey Harper Dissertation Fellowship for the 2025-2026 academic year.

Analysis by Rafael Luque and Michael Zhang casts doubt on the detection of biosignatures. 

Students and faculty reflect upon the programs in data science and computer science, as well as how they provide real-world skills and hands-on experience in a supportive environment. 

Nobel laureate Moungi Bawendi reflects on quantum dot revolution with his alma mater. 

Two Argonne projects awarded over $10 million in funding as part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy (ARPA-E) program to enable transmutation of U.S. commercial nuclear stockpile. 

Argonne and Fermilab's funding is part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program to reduce the impact of used nuclear fuel.
 

The third and final result, based on the last three years of data, is in perfect agreement with the experiment’s previous results. This long-awaited value will be the world’s most precise measurement of the muon magnetic anomaly for many years to come.
 

David Jablonski discusses how ecosystems recover from extinction events and how we can best prepare for the next one. 

Scientists led by Wendy Freedman have made a new calculation of the speed at which the universe is expanding, using the data taken by the powerful new James Webb Space Telescope on multiple galaxies. 

Mina Lee shares insights into her research on AI and writing, and discusses the future of LLMs.

A series of studies, including one by Rafael Luque, have cast doubt on the sensational claim that "the strongest evidence yet" was found that life exists anywhere else besides Earth.

By extending the scope of the key insight behind Fermat’s Last Theorem, four mathematicians, including Frank Calegari, have made great strides toward building a “grand unified theory” of math.

New research done by Edwin Kite suggests that the idea of transforming the Red Planet might not be so far-fetched after all.
 

Wendy Freedman's research using the James Webb Space Telescope suggests that the Standard Model of the universe is holding up.

One of the world’s largest optical telescopes reaches a key milestone toward US federal construction support.