UChicago researchers launch civic chatbot to educate and challenge voters on political views, ballot measures and more ...

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The University of Chicago Alumni Association and the Alumni Board have announced the recipients of the 2026 Alumni Awards.

The Earth formed over 4.6 billion years ago out of a mixture of dust and gas around the young sun. It grew larger thanks to countless collisions between dust particles, asteroids, and other growing ...

UChicago PME researchers trace a new pathway of disruptive chemical messages that could help explain why heavy smokers face ...

Turbulence is a bit of a paradox. It governs everything from the movements of ocean currents and hurricane clouds to the ...

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have observed an entirely new type of exoplanet whose atmospheric composition challenges our understanding of how this type of planet forms. This ...

Black holes are regions in space where an enormous amount of mass is packed into a tiny volume. This creates a gravitational pull so strong that not even light can escape. They are created when giant ...

Guggenheim Fellowships have been awarded this year to four scholars from the University of Chicago. Announced April 14, the ...

The University of Chicago Press awarded the 2026 Gordon J. Laing Award to Assoc. Prof. Sarah Newman for her book Unmaking ...

The term “microbiome” is shorthand for the vast and still largely unexplored worlds of bacteria, viruses, fungi and other microorganisms that inhabit every corner of the planet. Bacteria form tiny ...

Cosmic rays are particles from outer space that travel across the universe. They can be made by the sun, by other stars exploding, and even black holes. They move extremely fast, nearly the speed of ...