News: Research

Chicago’s Adler Planetarium message board hosts conversations between staffers, scholars, and some of the roughly 2.8 million volunteers in Zooniverse, the world’s largest platform for crowdsourced research online. Starting around late 2023, staffers noticed a flurry of uncertainty and discomfort from volunteers centered around machine learning. The Zooniverse team recognized that this discomfort required a larger conversation. A grant from The Kavli Foundation will enable that conversation exploring the ethics of machine learning in citizen science in partnership with the University of Chicago’s Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics (KICP); the Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public at the University of California, Berkeley; and the National Science Foundation-Simons SkAI Institute.

A team of geologists and mineral physicists at Harvard University, the University of California, Argonne National Laboratory, and the University of Chicago has found evidence via lab experiments that show the Earth's mantle is far more complex than previously known.

In a new research project, UChicago Prof. Nicolas Dauphas and a team of scientists used rocks gathered during the Apollo missions to learn more about the Moon's origins.
 

A new article provides insights into the extreme atmosphere of a rare ultra-hot Neptune. Michael Radica, a postdoctoral researcher in Astronomy and Astrophysics, was second author of this study.

UChicago scientists study samples from Apollo missions, revealing new details about lunar history.

A new UChicago study uses seismological “background noise” from worldwide monitoring network to study Arctic.

Argonne National Laboratory, a national laboratory affiliated with the University of Chicago, has fully opened its Aurora exascale supercomputer to researchers across the world, heralding a new era of computing-driven discoveries.

UChicago researchers unveil insights into random quantum circuits, exploring the speed at which random circuits scramble information. These findings, to be presented at the Quantum Information Processing Conference, are crucial for understanding quantum supremacy experiments as well as the future of quantum cryptography.

In a new interview, Chemistry Professor Chuan He talks about the new findings in cancer research.

A type of gemstone called spinel can be used to store quantum information, according to new research from a collaboration involving University of Chicago, Tohoku University, and Argonne National Laboratory.

Prof. Bozhi Tian, a leader in the field of bioelectronics, explains his research lab’s work and provides insight into captivating intersections between biology and technology.

In this edition of the BBC's Rethink podcast, UChicago Prof. Ben Zhao comments on the problems surrounding AI tools and how his research helps people fight back against copyright infringements.

A new collaborative study, involving UChicago associate professor Pedram Hassanzadeh, discusses the critical and evolving role of machine learning in the study of climate science.

In this episode of Freakonomics Radio, UChicago's Ben Zhao speaks on how he learned that artists were seeing their work stolen by A.I. models and his evolving project to fight back against such copyright infringements.

UChicago Associate Professor of Computer Science Pedro Lopes leads the Human-Computer Integration Lab. In this new interview, Lopes and his team show the potential of new technologies and AI to help enhance peoples' capabilities.