We’ve long marveled at how efficiently plants convert sunlight into energy—but no one guessed they were using quantum mechanics to do it. In this episode, we speak with Greg Engel, a pioneering ...

Funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation is part of a broader push to propel domestic computer chip manufacturing ...

The DAMIC-M experiment searches for these elusive signals 5,000 feet below the surface of the French Alps. Though it did not ...

In her new book 'Divided Parties, Strong Leaders,' UChicago political scientist Ruth Bloch Rubin analyzes factional splits in ...

In a recent paper published in Iraq, Matuszak presents the first full translation of a fragmented cuneiform tablet from the ancient Sumerian city of Nippur. Though partially translated since 1950, ...

Photophoresis occurs when gas molecules bounce more forcefully off the warm side of an object than the cool side, creating ...

One such planet, known as exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 d, has intrigued astronomers looking for possibly habitable worlds beyond our solar system; it is similar in size to Earth, rocky, and resides in an area ...

Digital reconstruction of tiny, 400-million-year-old jawless fish shows how traits for evading predators later gave rise to ...

While basic accelerometers are common in smartphones and fitness trackers, quantum inertial sensors can detect changes in ...

When Prof. John W. Boyer published his landmark book on the history of the University of Chicago in 2015, his work gave a valuable new window into UChicago’s past. But for Boyer, a renowned historian ...

Decades in the making, cancer immunotherapy is on the rise New therapies harness the body’s cancer-fighting powers, but they don't work for everyone. UChicago experts aim to change that ...