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

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.

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.

Vitelli honored for his innovative research reimagining possibilities of unconventional materials.

Deng said the line was a joke, and he does not believe AI will reach the point of solving every mathematical problem, at least not the ones he had in mind.

Calls for increased safety regulations on artificial intelligence have reached a boiling point following a post on X from former OpenAI and Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon that warned of a potential doomsday scenario.

Professor Ngo Bao Chau shared insights and experiences on identifying and nurturing the talents of gifted students.

Argonne’s Ian Foster explains how AI will be used to accelerate research.

Liz Moyer, Associate Professor in the Department of the Geophysical Sciences, discusses her research on the potential impacts of proposed methods to cool the earth by altering certain clouds.

The UChicago mathematics professor spoke to the Maroon about his work proving one of the decade’s most important results in mathematical physics.

Running through Nov. 15, the new installation from Argonne and UIC takes viewers from atoms and the human body to hurricanes, black holes and the evolution of the universe, bringing simulation data to life at an extraordinary scale.