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Dancing robots, mutant Legos and rocks that rock mark the fifth annual UChicago STEM community outreach event.

An assistant professor in the Department of Statistics and the Data Science Institute, Mateo Díaz has been named the inaugural Faraco Family Assistant Professor.

As a 2004 graduate of the University of Chicago’s Master of Science in Financial Mathematics program, Faraco recalls how his small FinMath cohort became its own sort of family, spending the majority of their days together in Eckhart Hall.

For people looking to refresh their homes, generative AI offers an enticing possibility: Upload a photograph of a room and, within seconds, see what it might look like with a different color palette, new furniture or an entirely new style.

Ultra-sensitive detector designed by UChicago team to search for dark matter captures elusive low-energy neutrino particles from the sun.

Scientists want to create cells from scratch, to unveil life’s origins or provide specialized functions. Are they close?

UChicago researchers built a $20 wrist cuff that jams nearby microphones within three feet using ultrasonic signals.

Astronomers looking at Vera C. Rubin Observatory test data have discovered 'Aquarius IV', believed to be a brand new satellite galaxy of the Milky Way located 350,000 light-years away.

When an employee of a major artificial intelligence company recently estimated there is a 10% chance the technology could wipe out humanity within the next decade, Daniel Holz wasn’t surprised.

Second-generation C-to-N swap turns the first generation’s failure into a feature.

UChicago launches its Master of Science in Applied Artificial Intelligence program. (Audio)

Some AI leaders warn current pace of progress could have serious consequences, other academics disagree with those assessments. CS Prof. Hank Hoffmann weighs in. (Video)

UChicago physicist Zoe Yan proposes a novel method to produce near-perfect quantum building blocks.
 

Congratulations to Benoît Roux, who has been selected to receive the 2027 Klaus Schulten and Zaida Luthey-Schulten Award in Computational Biophysics from the Biophysical Society.

Congratulations to Mark Levin, who has been selected to receive the 2026 Kyoto University Lectureship Award in Chemistry.