News: 2026

Event is first documented to involve four major tectonic plates, finds UChicago scientist Sunyoung Park.

An extremely unusual tectonic movement took place 15 minutes after the Tohoku earthquake in 2011, causing almost the whole of Japan to move 5 millimetres to the east.

Research led by Assoc. Prof. Pedram Hassanzadeh. Watch the CBS news segment.

"Relatively modest research investments would keep open the option of extending life beyond Earth as Mars’ scientific exploration continues." Interview with Assoc. Prof. Edwin Kite.

They say the reaction might have made the building blocks of DNA and RNA, both essential for life. Research by Astro postdoc Jeehyun Yang during his time at Caltech.

Recent observations suggest that dark energy is changing over time. Theorists wonder if dark matter is, too. Article features research by KICP Associate Fellow Georges Obied.

ATLAS probes top-antitop quark interactions near threshold. 

In this episode of the Resources Radio podcast, host Kristin Hayes invites Liz Moyer to break down the history of US energy use in commemoration of the country’s 250th year of independence. 

The R&D effort focuses on exploring the utilization of a streaming link between the custom Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)-based hardware boards planned to be used during HL-LHC, and a high-performance GPU-enabled processing farm. With this architecture, the R&D effort led by CERN Openlab, University of Chicago, and UCL scientists will allow the real-time analysis of the full data stream by deploying powerful models like Convolutional Auto-Encoders (CAEs), temporal Convolutional Neural Networks (TCCN), and transformer-based models, which are planned to be tested with the prototype hardware.

Thirteen members of the University of Chicago faculty, including three from the Physical Sciences Division, have received distinguished service professorships or named professorships, effective July 1.

Discovering the physical principles of superconductivity in diamond opens the door for scientists to use it in new quantum technologies
 

When prospective students explore graduate programs in data science, one of the most common questions is: What tools and technologies will I actually learn to use?Current MS in Applied Data Science student Yining Mao recently reflected on her experience in the program, sharing how coursework, projects, and extracurricular opportunities exposed her to a wide range of technologies, from large language models and computer vision to knowledge graphs and AI agents

DSI Celebrates the Spring 2026 Data4All High School Workshop.
 

After graduating from the University of Chicago’s MS in Applied Data Science program, Kyler Rosen found himself at the intersection of AI, healthcare, and entrepreneurship as founding engineer at Slideflow Labs, a healthcare AI startup focused on rapid cancer diagnostics.

Researchers are starting to explore the tools and systems we need to develop to cool down the planet.