In recent book, UChicago’s Nicole P. Marwell and Jennifer E. Mosley argue that the research method isn’t always the best tool ...

Timuel Black, beloved Chicago historian, civil rights activist and University of Chicago alum, died Oct. 13 at his Hyde Park home. He was 102. Black, AM’54, is being remembered by the University ...

A new study explores how artificial intelligence can not only better predict new scientific discoveries, but also to usefully expand them. The researchers, who published their work in Nature Human ...

When the paleontologists first plucked a massive, scimitar-shaped bone from the desolate sands of the central Sahara in 2019, they didn't immediately recognize it for what it was. It took a return ...

Data analyzed by UChicago scientists reveals exoplanet Kua’kua is dark and rocky, offering clues to search for habitable ...

Political commentators, academics and others have been wringing their hands over threats to democracy in recent years. A new study helps us better understand one of the possible driving forces behind ...

Two University of Chicago scholars have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, joining other scientists and researchers chosen in “recognition of their distinguished and continuing ...

Third-years Arthur Costa, Shelley Fernando, Mason McCormack and Vincent Wang earn prestigious award for their research ...

On Jan. 3, the United States military led a strike in Caracas, capturing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. The operation was the culmination of months of action by the ...

Quantum technologies are poised to transform society. In the coming years, quantum developments could produce sensors capable of detecting disease at the very earliest stages; networks that offer ...

More than 600 feet below the surface of Antarctica, ultrasensitive detectors picked up the tracks of cosmic rays crashing down from outer space. The Askaryan Radio Array is a group of sensors drilled ...

Twenty years ago, something happened when Pablo Peña sat in Prof. Gary Becker’s doctoral-level course at the University of Chicago. As the economist lectured on human capital theory, a concept he’d ...