Science Pubs create a valuable space for people who love science and research to come together as fans, rather than as students or professional colleagues. Organizers say the popular discussions have revealed a broad public appetite for informal events that are both intellectual and fun.
Carol Abraczinskas has spent most of her career drawing dinosaur bones at the University of Chicago, but her artistic ability and compulsive eye for detail have led to inspections that have taken her from ancient burials in Luxor, Egypt, to FBI archives in Seattle, Washington.
The combination of important paleontological finds and skillful artists has made the University of Chicago a fruitful place for scientific illustrators to ply their craft.
Preschool children who hear their parents describe the size and shape of objects and then use those words themselves perform better on tests of their spatial skills, according to a study that is the first to show that learning to use a wide range of spatial words predicts children’s later spatial thinking, which is important in mathematics and science.
The political outlook of blacks in America has undergone dramatic swings in the last ten years — from the depths of powerlessness during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, to the zenith with the election of the first black president, Barack Obama. Now, with another election looming, blacks confront new issues as they judge the impact of Obama’s election.
Using brain-imaging technology for the first time, scientists have gained new insights into how some students overcome their fears and succeed in math. For the highly math anxious, researchers found a strong link between math success and activity in a network of brain areas involved in controlling attention and regulating negative emotional reactions.
Low-income women with children who move from high-poverty to lower-poverty neighborhoods experience notable long-term improvements in in diabetes and extreme obesity, according to a new study, the first to employ a randomized experimental design to learn about the connections between neighborhood poverty and health.
An international research team has discovered that a pervasive human RNA modification provides the physiological underpinning of the genetic regulatory process that contributes to obesity and type II diabetes.
Since 1995, scientists have discovered approximately 600 planets around other stars, including 50 planets last month alone, and one that orbits two stars, like Tatooine in Star Wars. Detection of the first Earthlike planet remains elusive, however, and now the University of Chicago joins the search.
A coupled line of swinging pendulums apparently has nothing in common with an elastic film that buckles and folds under compression while floating on a liquid, but scientists at the University of Chicago and Tel Aviv University have discovered a deep connection between the two phenomena.
University of Chicago physicists Henry Frisch and Melvyn Shochet became involved with the Tevatron particle accelerator when it was still in the planning stages at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in 1976. Fermilab will shut down the Tevatron for the final time Sept. 30.
A $10 million donation from futures trader and University of Chicago alumnus William Eckhardt, SM’70, will enable the Physical Sciences Division to respond rapidly and with flexibility to scholarly opportunities and challenges as they arise.
Although sharply divided, public attitudes toward gays and lesbians are rapidly changing to reflect greater acceptance, with younger generations leading the way, research shows. In addition to a plurality who now approve of same-sex marriage, Americans overwhelmingly support freedom of expression for gays and lesbians.
Birds may have a more highly developed sense of smell than researchers previously thought, contend scholars who have found that penguins may use smell to determine where their homes are and to determine if they are related to a potential mate.
The Warming Papers, a book co-edited by geophysical sciences professors David Archer and Ray Pierrehumbert, contains 32 classic scientific papers that laid the foundations of global-warming science, starting with Joseph Fourier’s 1824 work establishing what later was named the greenhouse effect.
The Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism at the University of Chicago has launched a website devoted to reflections and strategies from policymakers and academics on the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11. The site, http://cpost.uchicago.edu, offers original contributions on the Middle East, Islam, homeland security, and U.S. military policies
The Associated Press and NORC at the University of Chicago announced today the formation of The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The Center will combine the expertise of NORC, one of the world’s premier social science research organizations, with AP, the essential global news network whose news is seen every day.
The Great Recession could have lingering impacts on the children of the unemployed. There is growing evidence that parental job loss has adverse consequences on children’s behavior, academic achievement and later employment outcomes, particularly in economically disadvantaged families.
Although Americans are increasingly tolerant of the open expression of a variety of views, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 have made most Americans reluctant to extend those freedoms to Muslim extremists, research released Aug. 25 by NORC at the University of Chicago shows.
New exhibition at University of Chicago Library highlights collection of rare children's literature and posters from the Soviet era.
The University of Chicago has created four named professorships for its new Institute for Molecular Engineering, building momentum behind the new academic program.
Knowing the right way to handle stress makes the difference between success and failure in the classroom. Researchers found that cortisol, a hormone released in response to stress, can either be tied to a student’s poor performance on a math test or contribute to success, depending on the frame of mind of the student going into the test.
Researchers have found a potential new source for sexual problems among middle-aged and older men: the relationships between their female partners and the men’s closest friends. When a man’s female partner has stronger relationships with his confidants than the man does, the partner comes between the man and his friends
A recent study shows that when health is taken into account in addition to income, the prosperity gap between blacks and whites shrinks.
In order to better understand how people become psychopaths, a University of Chicago researcher and his colleagues intend to study mental health by measuring the activity of brain networks necessary to experience empathy among a prison population and compare the results with data from healthy individuals.
Less than nine months after its launch, the Chicago Innovation Mentors (CIM) has received a $60,000 grant from the Chicago Biomedical Consortium, which is supported by the Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust.
A 10-year retrospective study has validated Project Exploration's personalized, out-of-school time approach to science education for urban teenagers.
University of Chicago Arts | Science Collaboration grants stimulate direct dialogue between the arts and science by having teams of graduate students work together to investigate a topic from the perspective of each discipline.
Men are sometimes criticized for being unwilling to ask for directions when they travel, but they can benefit from looking for help as they begin their journeys as fathers, according to a researcher on fatherhood. Along the way, they should not shy from asserting their roles, the researcher said.
Preschool children seem to grasp the true concept of counting only if they are taught to understand the number value of groups of objects greater than three. Seeing that there are three objects doesn’t have to involve counting. It’s only when children go beyond three that counting is necessary to determine how many objects there are, researchers contend.
Building on the eminent interdisciplinary tradition at the The University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration has launched a new initiative that will take its multidisciplinary problem-solving approach to a new level.
Gift from Richard and Mary L. Gray to support novel program linking artists, scholars.
A dark-matter experiment deep in the Soudan mine of Minnesota now has detected a seasonal signal variation similar to one an Italian experiment has been reporting for more than a decade.
An ambitious project to identify, explain and provide citations for the words written in cuneiform on clay tablets and carved in stone by Babylonians, Assyrians and others in Mesopotamia between 2500 B.C. and A.D. 100 has been completed after 90 years of labor, the University of Chicago announced June 5.
People’s moral responses to similar situations change as they age, according to a new study at that combined brain scanning, eye-tracking and behavioral measures to understand how the brain responds to morally laden scenarios.
Mars developed in as little as two to four million years after the birth of the solar system, far more quickly than Earth, according to a new study published in the May 26 issue of the journal Nature. The red planet’s rapid formation helps explain why it is so small, say the study’s co-authors.
The Lake County Discovery Museum in Wauconda is staging the first solo exhibit of the work of University of Chicago paleoartist Tyler Keillor through June 26 at 27277 N. Forest Preserve Road. He also will present a slide lecture titled “From Fossils to Flesh” at 5 p.m. May 4 at the museum.
The best teacher for a young mother is her baby, contend experts who train social workers to interact with first-time moms. Adjusting to a baby can take work, and the task of social workers often is to help young mothers learn to focus on an infant’s needs, experts say.
Today the University of Chicago’s Flash Center for Computational Science will release a major new version of supercomputer code, called FLASH 4-alpha. This is the first version of the FLASH code that has extensive capabilities for simulating high-energy density physics experiments.
Declining rates of hospitalization have discouraged primary care doctors from seeing their patients in the hospital and encouraged the growing use of “hospitalists,” a specialty focused on the care of hospitalized patients. Further developments in the field mean that frequently hospitalized patients also may need a specialist focused on their care.
The brain is apparently programmed from birth to develop the ability to determine sunrise and sunset, according to new research on circadian rhythms that sheds new light on brain plasticity and may explain some basic human behaviors.
Philippine Consul General to present University of Chicago Library with two works in honor of the 150th anniversary of Jose Rizal's birth.
Exotic bacteria that do not rely on oxygen may have played an important role in determining the composition of Earth’s early atmosphere, according to a theory that UChicago researcher Albert Colman of a volcanic crater in Siberia.
A report shows that for the first time since 1972, more Americans say that their financial situation has gotten worse than better. Also for the first time since 1972, the percentage of Americans saying that they are “not at all” satisfied with their financial situation (31.5%) notably exceeds those saying they are “pretty well” satisfied (23.4%).
Recent efforts to improve teacher performance by linking pay to student achievement have failed because such programs often rely on metrics that were never intended to help determine teacher pay and accordingly fail to measure teachers' success.
How do we determine what impact financial innovations and financial policy changes will have on the economies of developing countries? A new book by economist Robert M. Townsend explains for the first time how economists and policymakers can merge rigorous economic models with extensive data to answer important questions like these.
By taking a closer look at animal bones scattered across the wilderness landscape, a University of Chicago researcher has found a powerful tool for showing how species’ populations have changed over decades or even a century.
The University of Chicago has numerous experts who can comment on the scientific, social, political and cultural dimensions of the ongoing crisis in Japan. Our news officers can assist reporters looking for help with stories on nuclear science, radiation exposure, geology, as well as Japanese culture, law, politics, religion and history.
David Mazziotti has significantly improved a quantum computational method that he introduced in 2004 for efficiently modeling the electrons in atoms and molecules.
In its 27th survey of American spending priorities since 1973 conducted as part of its General Social Survey (GSS), NORC at the University of Chicago Wednesday released a report on its most recent findings. By a notable margin, education is the top priority.
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