News: Research

Researchers are exploring phononic nanodevices as a pathway to realize practical quantum technologies.  

Scientists are tackling the persistent problem of factually incorrect statements using an approach called HALT (Hallucination Assessment via Latent Testing) that identifies factually incorrect statements from within an LLM's internal workings.

Advanced computer models have allowed us to determine the amount of oxygen the gas giant contains, which may explain the history of the solar system. 

Even though each chip only needs a small amount of the metal, mining consumes a lot of energy and produces a lot of waste.

A new photoemission electron microscope (PEEM) arrives at UChicago to help researchers in their quest to build a complete wiring diagram of the brain.

Three UChicago scientists, including Sarah King, received a $4.8 million, three-year grant to purchase the microscope and customize it for connectome imaging. 

Learning experiences at Argonne National Laboratory fuel the ambitions of future leaders in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

Floods, storms, and extreme temperatures kill many people around the world each year. But the deadliness of these climate hazards changes as the climate warms, populations grow or move, and societies invest, or fail to invest, in infrastructure and emergency response.

Congratulations to Caroline Piaulet-Ghorayeb and Donald Stull, who have been named recipients of the 2025–2026 Suzuki Postdoctoral Fellowship Award. Yuji Suzuki, SM’70, a longtime supporter and former Council member of the Physical Sciences Division, established the Yuji and Lorraine Suzuki Postdoctoral Research Fund in 2016 to recognize outstanding postdoctoral researchers.

Physics graduate student Ryohei Weil contributes to research that has verified four theoretical predictions regarding computational phases of matter. These contributions confirm the stability of quantum technology for scalability in the future. 

Atmospheric study finds surprises about our largest neighboring planet and its deep atmosphere.

Professor Giulia Galli of the Chemistry Department has shown that nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamonds can be used to improve certain quantum properties of qubits. 

David Keith believes geoengineering deserves serious consideration as a tool to combat climate change.

The latest results combined weak lensing and galaxy clustering and incorporated four dark energy probes from a single experiment for the first time.

UChicago chemists gain insight into how a Parkinson’s-associated protein binds to membranes in the brain.

Researchers at the Center for AstroPhysical Surveys (CAPS) used the South Pole Telescope to probe one of the most complex regions of the sky.