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A team of UChicago and Yale astronomers have discovered two new “satellites” orbiting the Milky Way.

Statistician Aaron Schein and Chris Wolfram, PhD student in Computer Science, use LLMs to extract information from the Babylonian Astronomical Diaries, verifying the LLM’s output with a Bayesian Model that knows the correct positions of the Moon, planets, and stars in the ancient night sky.

The cosmic microwave background is the faint residual light from the very beginnings of the universe. It’s often referred to as the afterglow of the Big Bang.

At over 13 billion years old, it is the oldest light in the universe—which makes it a tantalizing object of study for scientists seeking clues about our origins.

A first-principles framework from UChicago PME researchers sheds light on the utility of spin defects as qubits and could help design materials for energy conversion and storage.

Argonne plays important role in the world’s most sensitive direct search for a muon electric dipole moment.

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in cubic diamonds — a type of defect where a nitrogen atom substitutes a carbon atom neighboring a lattice vacancy — have commonly been studied for applications in quantum sensing and computing.

UChicago geophysical scientists suggest that the way Earth’s “thermostat” works may have changed during the Pangea era.

A Vietnamese mathematician and his German colleague have helped resolve a 55-year-old mathematical conjecture, using randomness and techniques inspired by juggling to tackle the problem.

New simulations trace the Milky Way back to a turbulent network of thousands of small galaxies in the early universe.

Pham Tuan Huy, a young Vietnamese mathematician, and his colleagues have solved a problem that has existed in the mathematical community for nearly 50 years.

A new supercomputer simulation traces how thousands of small galaxies eventually became the Milky Way.

Astrophysicist leads launch of NASA balloon to detect high-energy particles from the cosmos

Climate change is increasing the frequency of extreme weather events, and accurate, fast and efficient AI weather forecasts could help lessen their impact.

MSCAPP students Sinan Grehan and Wendy Wang spent the summer at the Energy Policy Institute at UChicago using data, econometrics, and environmental research to investigate policy questions that range from wetlands regulation to the hidden costs of climate change.

Most complex rendering of its kind provides insight into early days of our home galaxy.