News: Research

One program, Quantum Sensing Summer Program with NSF QuBBE, offers Chicago high schoolers two weeks of lab immersion.

The multidisciplinary Center develops materials with practical applications, like methane capture, water harvesting and CO2 conversion. The Center is led by Laura Gagliardi, the Richard and Kathy Leventhal Professor in the Department of Chemistry.

UChicago researchers have developed a new liquid biopsy test that uses RNA modifications to detect early-stage colorectal cancer with 95% accuracy.

UChicago-led analysis of Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover data may explain why the planet was likely harsh desert for most of the recent past.

Edward Anders, who passed away June 1st at the age of 98, helped to map the history of the solar system and documented the Holocaust. 

Rebecca Willett, the Data Science Institute's Faculty Director of AI, gave a public lecture at the National Museum of Mathematics highlighting core ideas underlying AI.

Hank Snowdon joined the Seattle Mariners with a lifelong love of baseball and a powerful new data science skill set. He’s now helping shape player decisions in one of Major League Baseball’s front offices.

University of Chicago chemist Stuart Rowan develops temperature-responsive materials that could improve manufacturing and 3D printing.

A new study from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, including UChicago chemists Greg Engel and Dmitri Talapin, could help scientists and engineers better understand how to tune quantum dots—tiny semiconductor nanocrystals that harness quantum mechanics to release energy as light—for different technologies.

Mina Rees, PhD’31 (1902–97), was the first woman elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and helped scientific research flourish.

Edwin Kite discusses the parallels between Earth's and Mars's carbon cycles and the implications. 

By discovering carbonate rocks, NASA's Mars rovers may have unlocked the key to understanding the fate of the Red Planet's climate, featuring research by Edwin Kite. 

The University-operated MAROON-X instrument has recently discovered GJ 12 b, an Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting an inactive M dwarf star. 

Emerging ‘co-scientist’ systems use chatbots to mimic the deliberations of a research group. Nature asked researchers to test them out, with Rick Stevens speaking on his experience. 

New method promises enhanced understanding of chemical reactions and material properties.