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

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

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

In recent study, Asst. Prof. Jana Matuszak publishes fully translated cuneiform tablet—the first narrative featuring Sumerian ...

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

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

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

Ecological succession is the process by which the mix of species and habitat in an area changes over time. Gradually, these communities replace one another until a “climax community”—like a mature ...

What is a black hole? Black holes are made of matter packed so tightly that gravity overwhelms all other forces. When you pick up a bowling ball, it’s heavy because the matter is densely packed. If ...

How does the gut microbiome impact human health? In the 1980s, UChicago alum Jeffrey Gordon, MD’73, a gastroenterology researcher working at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, ...

The solar wind is a flow of particles that comes off the sun at about one million miles per hour and travels throughout the entire solar system. First proposed in the 1950s by University of Chicago ...

Scientists still can’t agree on the exact value of the Hubble constant, which tells us how fast the universe is expanding and could reveal missing pieces in our understanding of physics.