News: Research

2025

Black in cosmology

July 10, 2025

Photo of John Hood.

John Hood and a team of other scientists discuss their scientific interests, research projects, and personal motivations for working in astronomy as a part of Black Space Week 2025.


Is it time for a new model of the universe?

July 10, 2025

An image of a three dimensional shape that contains the universe, purple smoke, and atoms funneling into the sun.

Wendy Freedman and her research was featured on the Science Friday podcast discussing whether a new model of the universe needs to be created. 


ESO 280-SC06 is a tidally disrupted globular cluster that has lost almost all its mass, observations reveal

July 10, 2025

Graphs that showcase the normalized spectra of the ESO 280-SC06 stars.

A team led by Astro grad student Samantha Usman used the Magellan Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile to discover that the cluster has lost 95% of its initial mass due to tidal disruptions. 


Six ways Argonne is advancing quantum information research

July 3, 2025

Argonne leverages world-class expertise and scientific facilities to push the boundaries of quantum information science and technology.

During the International Year of Quantum, Argonne celebrates its advances in quantum computing, communications, sensing and materials.


Spring Distinguished Speaker Series fosters conversations on the future of AI with leaders in the field

July 3, 2025

Combined photo of Margo Seltzer, Tom Griffiths, and Moshe Vardi.

Professors Margo Seltzer, Tom Griffiths, and Moshe Vardi spoke about the metascience of data science, AI’s limitations, and tradeoffs between efficiency vs. resilience with AI.


A quantum leap in health care

July 3, 2025

A panel of researchers (from left): UChicago Medicine Assoc. Prof. Alexander Pearson, UChicago PME Dean Nadya Mason, UChicago Medicine Prof. Julian Solway, and UChicago PME and Chemistry Department Prof. Greg Engel discussed the future of quantum medicine

UChicago alumni learn how qubits and entanglement can create a healthier future in a recent Harper Lecture.


Chemistry students partner with artist to recreate pigment patented by George Washington Carver

July 3, 2025

University of Chicago graduate student Amanda Brewer pours acid into an iron-rich solution to create a blue hue.

UChicago students and artist Amanda Williams revive 100-year-old recipe for a startling blue color.


Latest data from South Pole Telescope signals ‘new era’ for measuring the first light in the universe

July 3, 2025

Scientists have released the first two years of data taken by an upgraded camera at the South Pole Telescope, located in Antarctica, which maps the afterglow of the Big Bang.

Study of the cosmic microwave background adds new depth to our understanding of universe.


Committee recommends U.S. build Muon Collider in report on future of particle physics

July 3, 2025

The alignment station at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory allows the team there to align magnets with very fine precision.

UChicago scientists help lay out vision for the next 20-plus years of the field.
 


Democratizing digital graphics: An undergrad’s unlikely path to putting agency of 3D-generation in users’ hands

June 28, 2025

Hyunwoo (Brian) Kim.

Hyunwoo (Brian) Kim ‘25, a recent grad of UChicago, creates MeshUp to improve user agency and control over 3D-generated graphics.


Five DSI scholars set to continue in academia

June 28, 2025

Combined photo showing Yuetian Luo, Julia Mendelsohn, Yo Joong

Congratulations to concluding postdocs Julia Mendelsohn, Vasilis Charisopoulos, YJ Choe, and Yuetian Luo, and preceptor Susanna Lange.


Giulia Galli wins Berni J. Alder CECAM Prize

June 28, 2025

UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering Liew Family Professor of Molecular Engineering Giulia Galli, shown delivering a plenary address in 2019 on the occasion of the Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moléculaire’s (CECAM) 50th anniversa

The global award, given once every three years, recognizes exceptional contributions to the field of microscopic simulation of matter. 


Precision and ingenuity drive construction of DUNE detector components

June 28, 2025

This illustration shows a view looking longways down the FD-HD detector; APAs at the sides and center, separated by cathode planes.

DUNE studies matter-antimatter asymmetry using precision detectors built with expert skill, clever machines, and extreme attention to detail.


The DSI welcomes summer students to explore the world of research

June 28, 2025

Dan Nicolae, Faculty Co-Director of the Data Science Institute and Elaine M. and Samuel D. Kersten, Jr. Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Statistics, Human Genetics, Medicine, and the College Section of Genetic Medicine, presents at th

The Data Science for Social Impact Summer Experience and Summer Lab programs kick off this week.


Asteroid speck at the Field Museum could hold the key to life

June 28, 2025

A sample from the asteroid Bennu, the subject of the 2016 OSIRIS-REx mission, and a “near-Earth asteroid,” has arrived at the Field Museum. Uncontaminated by the Earth’s atmosphere, this tiny piece of rock may offer insights into the minerals and or

UChicago PhD candidate Yuke Zheng leads research on a 4.6-billion-year-old piece of rock that could reveal compounds present at the beginning of the solar system and the building blocks of life.