In the 1980s, the theory that dinosaurs were wiped out by a massive meteor that hit the Earth began to gain scientific ...

Priscilla Diane Chapman Frisch, a University of Chicago Research Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics and a world-leading ...

July 14-16 gathering to create recommendations for policymakers and leaders to reduce the threat of nuclear war ...

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The earliest light in the universe has been traveling across space since just after the Big Bang. Known as the cosmic ...

Step inside the laboratory as Chibueze Amanchukwu and his team investigate the chemistry that could lead to better batteries ...

On June 11, the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine announced the result of a three-year study to set a ...

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

University of Chicago rising fourth-years Annie Yang and Seri Welsh have been recognized by the Udall Foundation for their ...

Once one of the most difficult colors to recreate in paint, blue was only available to medieval artists, for example, by grinding up the prized stone known as lapis lazuli. By the 1900s, it was still ...

What is a supermassive black hole? There are two kinds of black holes: star-sized black holes and supermassive black holes. Supermassive black holes are so named because they contain on the order of ...

The quantum internet is a network of quantum computers that will someday send, compute, and receive information encoded in quantum states. The quantum internet will not replace the modern or ...