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Golden Goose Award winner Sid Nagel is featured in a documentary.

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The fifth annual South Side Science Festival brought thousands to the campus for hands-on science experience and a day of curiosity.

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.

Aspiring astrophysicist and science communicator Hillary Diane Andales reflects on opportunity, belonging and what it will take to build a stronger scientific community in the Philippines

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.

Robots demonstrating dance moves made popular by the late entertainer Michael Jackson, mini-catapults sending plastic gourds soaring toward a cauldron, paper airplane competitions and ice cream frozen by liquid nitrogen were among the demonstrations on offer at the fifth annual University of Chicago South Side Science Festival.

Martha Dehoyos watched as three of her children dug through trays of mud, sand and pebbles looking for fossils at the paleontology booth Saturday afternoon during the fifth annual South Side Science Festival.

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

For the first time since the U.S. National Science Foundation renewed and expanded the nation’s Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes, representatives from each Institute will convene at Q2B x Chicago Quantum Summit to discuss their efforts to solve the complex hurdles facing the quantum technology sector as it nears utility-scale deployment.

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

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

UChicago computer science Prof. Andrew A. Chien, former vice president of research at Intel, answers questions about AI, sustainability and water.