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The Origins Federation Conference united scientists across disciplines in the search for how life emerged and evolved.

The festival’s 110 hands-on activities let kids play with lasers, make robots dance, synthesize gloopy slime worms, compare animal skulls, practice CPR and see their world under powerful microscopes. 

The Hyde Park Herald covers the fourth annual South Side Science Festival.

Skateboard physics and the cutest robots known to science await attendees of Oct. 4 campus event.

UChicago MSCAPP grad Gregory Mitchell named NobleReach Scholar, joining Montgomery County’s AI Advisory Council to advance tech for public good.

Introducing the next generation of international, interdisciplinary researchers to AI-enabled scientific discovery.

At the Summer 2025 Master’s in Applied Data Science Capstone Showcase, 18 teams tackled real-world problems with advanced data science, with winning projects in energy, healthcare, and agriculture.

Students shared findings from eight weeks of discovery and development.

The Department of Computer Science and Data Science Institute hold indispensable roles at the University, enriching the broader intellectual environment while offering meaningful benefits to both students and faculty.

A series of free public talks will examine the science, technologies, and policy implications behind large-scale interventions such as sunlight reflection methods (SRM), open-systems carbon removal, and glacial preservation. The series will feature leading researchers from the University of Chicago’s Climate Systems Engineering initiative (CSEi) and runs every Saturday morning at 11 a.m. from October 4 to November 22, 2025.

The monthly series bridges research and practical applications between industry, community, academia, and the public sector.

Near Modane, a laboratory buried beneath the Alps is attempting to capture elements of a world parallel to our own. Paolo Privitera uses this laboratory to study dark matter. 

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UChicago hosts a briefing for congressional staff and federal agencies to discuss the potential of quantum technology.

Human judgment remains central to the launch of nuclear weapons. But experts at the UChicago convention say it’s a matter of when, not if, artificial intelligence will get baked into the world’s most dangerous systems.

In the Autumn of 2026, students will be able to pursue a new 2-year thesis track to earn an MS in Applied Data Science.