News: Research

2025

Reimagining synthetic strategy with skeletal editing ticks box on chemists’ wish list

May 5, 2025

Hands holding test tube containing orange liquid.

The Levin Lab solves longstanding selectivity problem in the synthesis of complex pyrazoles, which has troubled medicinal chemists.


Our speech is full of melodies that create language-like patterns

May 5, 2025

Open music book with notes indicating melodic lines.

Statistics and DSI professor David Biron teams up with the Weizmann Lab and other researchers to understand prosody, the music of speech. 


Quantum randomness could create a spoof-proof internet

May 5, 2025

Quantum computing chip.

Argonne Laboratory helps develop Quantinuum’s 56-bit trapped-ion computer, which has succeeded in demonstrating randomness in quantum circuits to establish secure, private connections.


The University of Chicago Data Science Institute and Google partner on cutting-edge AI and security research

May 5, 2025

3D Render of AI GPU and CPU.

The Data Science Institute and Google are partnering to launch new research to address security, privacy, and digital safety within artificial intelligence. 


DSI and the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation invite the next generation to imagine data and AI for good

May 5, 2025

Two panelists speaking at the Tech-for-Good Careers event.

The Tech-for-Good Careers event highlighted ways UChicago faculty, staff, and students are leveraging data science for social good.
 


How generative artificial intelligence is changing work at a national laboratory

May 5, 2025

Logo for Argo, Argonne’s internal generative AI interface. (Image by Argonne National Laboratory.)

New study explores how workers are using large language models and what it means for science organizations.
 


Nature recognizes He Lab publication as a “Top 25 Life and Biological Sciences Articles of 2024”

May 5, 2025

Professor Chuan He posing for a photo.

A publication from the Chuan He lab has been selected as one of Nature Magazine's "Top 25 Life and Biological Sciences Articles of 2024."
 


IBM and University of Chicago collaborate to advance quantum computing, including innovations in quantum chemistry

May 5, 2025

Person interacting with green glowing computer hardware.

IBM and the University of Chicago are deepening their partnership to accelerate quantum computing advancements, with significant implications for disciplines like chemistry.


Light-activated nanostructures boost cellular defense

May 5, 2025

Jing Zhang

A novel bioelectronic approach by the Bozhi Tian Group uses nanocatalysts to pre-condition cells against stress.


Quantum materials, built by AI robot

May 5, 2025

AI robot

Interdisciplinary UChicago research will use machine learning to create delicate, complicated quantum materials.


The University of Chicago hosts the first Great Lakes graphics workshop

May 5, 2025

People who attended the Great Lakes Graphics Workshop pose for a photo.

Researchers and enthusiasts from the Great Lakes region gathered at the University of Chicago for a day of engaging talks, networking, and collaboration in the inaugural Great Lakes Graphics Workshop organized by the 3DL Lab.
 


Magnetic field maneuvers magnetite monolayers

April 26, 2025

optical micrograph of monolayer sheets on their copper supports

Professor Heinrich Jaeger contributes to the creation of thin, flexible sheets of self-assembled nanoparticles of magnetite that can be lifted and bent using an external magnetic field.


Top-quark pairs at ATLAS could shed light on the early universe

April 26, 2025

deep space

Physics postdoc Anthony Badea leads research on the creation of quark-gluon plasma believed to have filled the universe in the microseconds after the Big Bang. 


New research explores augmented breathing through thermal feedback

April 26, 2025

woman using augmented breathing device

PhD candidate Jas Brooks leads a study that developed an innovative nasal interface to alter the perceived ease of breathing.


UChicago chemists unveil new ‘placeholder’ method for making molecules more easily

April 26, 2025

gloved hand holding flask

A new study by University of Chicago chemists shows how to quickly and easily make variations on a type of molecules called pyrazoles, which are often used in drug development.