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A UChicago research team created a nanoplasmonic material that harvests light energy for biomedical sensing and stimulation.

Prof. Laura Gagliardi on pivotal moments in US chemistry.

Stuart Rowan will serve as the new leader, while the Founding Faculty Director Shirley Meng will continue leading the Energy Transition Network.

A new study finds that storing cold water used to cool data centers underground could increase IT power capacity by 9.8 percent across three U.S. markets, with gains as high as 11 percent in Arizona's hot, dry climate.

Watch our video wrapup of the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth's academic and co-curricular activities for the 2025-2026 academic year.

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.