Dancing robots, mutant Legos and rocks that rock marked the fifth annual UChicago STEM community outreach event ...

UChicago computer science Prof. Andrew A. Chien, former vice president of research at Intel, answers questions about AI, sustainability and water ...

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 ...

A well-preserved fossil of a 165-million-year-old mammal ancestor from China with hind limbs like a platypus and a broad, ...

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You can watch how these galaxies coalesced over time and formed the familiar spiral disk we see today, thanks to a new set of ...

The Class of 2030 has arrived. The University of Chicago welcomed its newest students to campus last week, each of them ready ...

Kenneth Warren last delivered the Aims of Education address to new University of Chicago undergraduates. And while the world ...

Vaccine development is typically measured in years, not months. But as the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, scientists are racing the clock—and breaking records—to develop an immunization that provides ...

New research by neuroscientists at the University of Chicago looked at what happens in the brain when it tries to complete ...

Rzhetsky's team analyzed anonymized insurance claims from over 5 million American two-child families, and found that the order in which a child is born into a family is meaningfully associated with ...

It sounds like a just-so story—“How the Insect Got its Wings”—but it’s really a mystery that has puzzled biologists for over a century. Intriguing and competing theories of insect wing evolution have ...