Religious people tend to use their own beliefs as a guide in thinking about what God believes, but are less constrained when reasoning about other people’s beliefs, according to new study published in the Nov. 30 early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Loneliness, like a bad cold, can spread among groups of people. Using longitudinal data from a large-scale study, a team of scholars found that lonely people tend to share their loneliness with others. Gradually over time, a group of lonely, disconnected people moves to the fringes of social networks.
Political affinity could influence how some people view the skin tone of biracial political candidates. The findings indicate that people perceive lighter skin tone to be more representative of a candidate with whom they share political ideology than darker skin tone.
The nature of the American religious experience is changing as a rising number of people report having no formal religious affiliation, even though the number of Americans who say they pray is increasing. Those twin trends suggest a growing number of people are “spiritual but not religious,” a new survey shows.
Whether a parent or a professional caregiver, anyone who has cared for children is likely to have dozens of questions about their development. With the intent of providing up-to-date information on the many issues related to children and their development, a leading group of scholars has created The Child: An Encyclopedia Companion.
The first solar system energetic particle maps show an unexpected landmark occurring at the outer edge of the solar wind bubble surrounding the solar system.
New technologies and academic collaborations are helping scholars analyze hundreds of ancient documents in Aramaic, one of the Middle East’s oldest continuously spoken and written languages. Researchers are making high-quality electronic images of nearly 700 Aramaic administrative documents that were incised or written in ink on clay tablets.
The brain’s neural mechanisms keep straight which color belongs to what object, so one doesn’t mistakenly see a blue flamingo in a pink lake. But what happens when a color loses the object to which it is linked? Research shows for the first time, that instead of disappearing along with the lost object, the color latches onto a region of some other object in view.
The University of Chicago will host a conference celebrating the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth, the 150th anniversary of The Origin of Species and the 50th anniversary of the scientifically influential 1959 Darwin conference at Chicago, from Thursday, Oct. 29 to Saturday, Oct. 31.
University of Chicago develops green buildings, takes emissions inventory, launches pilot bike share program.
A 9-foot dinosaur from northeastern China had evolved all the hallmark anatomical features of Tyrannosaurus rex at least 125 million years ago.
The University of Chicago’s Center for Elementary Mathematics and Science Education will convene a working group Sept. 15 to Sept. 17 on “Sustaining Change in Education: Finding Shared Language and Common Ground.”
A $30 million National Science Foundation grant will enable the University of Chicago to expand and extend until 2011 the operation of TeraGrid, a national system of interconnected supercomputers devoted to leading-edge scientific discovery and science and technology education.
Besides caring for children, many child care centers have another overlooked function—they connect parents with each other as informal advisors in child rearing, and with agencies that help with the challenges of parenting. The parents build the contacts they need to navigate through problems, such as finding good health care and choosing schools.
Higher levels of testosterone are associated with a greater appetite for risk in women. The link between risk aversion and testosterone predicted career choices after graduation: individuals who were high in testosterone and low in risk aversion chose riskier careers in finance.
A student mathematics activist from the University of Chicago will share his concerns about the future of mathematics education during a National Science Foundation panel discussion on the next generation of science and technology innovators.
University of Chicago physicists have, for the first time, directly observed a group of atoms transform from a conducting state into an insulating state.
Pigtail macaques in Thailand. Ring-tailed lemurs in Madagascar. Fossil fishes in the deserts of Peru. Frogs in the mountains of Tanzania. Few regions of the world have escaped the attention of students enrolled in the University of Chicago’s Committee on Evolutionary Biology.
Divorce and widowhood have a lingering, detrimental impact on health, even after a person remarries. Among the currently married, those who have ever been divorced show worse health on all dimensions. Both the divorced and widowed who do not remarry show worse health on all dimensions.
Statisticians Wei Biao Wu and Xiaofeng Shao have received the Tjalling C. Koopmans Econometric Theory Prize 2008 for an equation-packed paper that tackles time series data.
Experts from the University of Chicago address the following: 1) How do Americans feel about government spending on health? 2) Why is health care spending going up? 3) Looking at Medicare, what have been some of the problems? 4) What about the underinsured problems of current health care plans? 5) What are some shortcomings of our current system?
"From Earth to the Universe," an exhibit of 56 astronomical images, is on display through the end of the year at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. Scientists at the University of Chicago's Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics contributed four of the images.
Project Exploration is deploying Chicago Public School students into Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota this summer to conduct field studies alongside working scientists.
A graduate student in physics at the University of Chicago has devised a special apparatus for an $80,000 high-speed camera to image the rapidly changing behavior of the streaming sand, much as a skydiver might photograph a fellow jumper in free fall.
Thanks to the skills of artists who work on cold case investigations, people have a chance to see what a mummy may have looked like in real life. Working independently, a forensic artist and a police artist prepared the images, which depict an engaging woman in her late 20s as she would have looked in 800 B.C. Both artists produced strikingly similar images.
Plants or meat: That's about all that fossils ever tell paleontologists about a dinosaur's diet. But the skull characteristics of a new species of parrot-beaked dinosaur and its associated gizzard stones indicate that the animal fed on nuts and/or seeds.
The interstellar stuff that became incorporated into the planets and life on Earth has younger cosmic roots than theories predict, according to the University of Chicago postdoctoral scholar Philipp Heck and his international team of colleagues.
Researchers at the University of Chicago have developed an "electronic glue" that could accelerate advances in semiconductor-based technologies, including solar cells and thermoelectric devices that convert sun light and waste heat, respectively, into useful electrical energy.
A wealth of material that documents the ancient Middle East has become available through a new, free online service at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. The material comes from the extensive collection at the institute, which is a major publisher of important academic books on the languages, history and cultures of the ancient Middle East.
In a study that could help explain the connections between depression and cancer, researchers have used an animal model to find, for the first time, a biological link between tumors and negative mood changes. The team determined that substances associated with depression are produced in increased quantities by tumors and are transmitted to the brain.
The international QUIET collaboration is searching for remnants of the radiation emitted at the earliest moments of the universe, when gravity waves rippled through the very fabric of space-time itself.
Scholars are using modern technology to digitally record thousands of tablets that, as they are being pieced together, tell an unusually detailed story of the Persian Empire. These ancient tablets from the palaces of Persepolis include pieces of language and art from the center of the empire, all made when it extended from India to the Mediterranean.
Paleontologists have completed a rigorous study that has culminated in a new approach to reconciling the conflict between fossil and molecular data in evolutionary studies.
Any educational reform, no matter how effective it may seem today, will have to change in order to last, according to University of Chicago education researcher Jeanne Century.
Most people know University of Chicago alumnus Edwin Hubble (S.B.,1910, Ph.D.,1917) as a famed astronomer, the namesake of the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope (HST). But he also starred as a forward on the University of Chicago Maroons' Big Ten-champion basketball teams of 1907-08 and 1908-09.
A $49 million total renovation of the Searle Chemistry Laboratory building will meet the new and future technical demands of leading scientific research, while fostering the human interaction that fuels cross-disciplinary scholarship at the University of Chicago.
Chicago and other cities have adopted green initiatives designed to foster more investment in local and regional agriculture. City officials and citizens alike often assume that by doing so they can help soften climate change by cutting greenhouse-gas emissions. But it's not that simple.
The first recipient of a new fellowship linking the University of Chicago and Cambridge University will study the only remaining records of a little known empire whose capital has been buried for years under Aleppo, a city in Syria. He will also examine previously unread documents if the famous Hammurabian code copied ideas from an earlier civilization.
Lack of the phosphate can turn Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a common bacterium, into a killer, according to new research. The findings could lead to new drugs that would disarm the increasingly antibiotic-resistant pathogen rather than attempting to kill it. P. aeruginosa is a serious hospital-acquired pathogen. Why it suddenly turns on its host has eluded researchers"”until now.
Large size and a fast bite spelled doom for bony fishes during the last mass extinction 65 million years ago. Today, these same features characterize the large predatory bony fishes, such as tuna and billfishes, that are in decline and at risk of extinction. They appear to be the least able to rebound from declining numbers due to overfishing.
The genetic toolkit animals use to build fins and limbs is the same genetic toolkit that controls the development of part of the gill skeleton in sharks. In addition, the skeleton of any animal appendage is probably patterned by the developmental genetic program that regulates the formation of shark gills. This finding is consistent with an old theory, often discounted in science textbooks, that fins and (later) limbs evolved from the gills of an extinct vertebrate.
Although not having many close friends contributes to poorer health for older adults, those who also feel lonely face even greater health risks, new research says. Older people who are able to adjust to being alone don't have the same health problems. The study is the first to examine the relationships between health and two different types of isolation.
A herd of young birdlike dinosaurs met their death on the muddy margins of a lake some 90 million years ago, according to a team of Chinese and American paleontologists that excavated the site in the Gobi Desert in western Inner Mongolia.
Eric D. Isaacs, a prominent University of Chicago physicist and senior administrator at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, has been selected to become the next director of Argonne. The appointment will be effective May 1, 2009.
Gesturing helps students develop new ways of understanding mathematics. Scholars have known that movements help retrieve information about an event or physical activity associated with action. A new report is the first to show that gestures not only help recover old ideas, they also help create new ones. The information could be helpful to teachers.
Scientists are harnessing the cosmos as a scientific "instrument" in their quest to determine the makeup of the universe.
The University of Chicago is launching a large-scale collaboration to develop a computational modeling tool that will help a wide range of organizations in climate and energy policy decision-making.
The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering has awarded a $2 million grant to the University of Chicago to provide stipends and tuition support for students in the innovative Biophysical Sciences program.
During the next decade, a delicate measurement of primordial light could reveal convincing evidence for the popular cosmic inflation theory, which proposes that a random, microscopic density fluctuation in the fabric of space and time gave birth to the universe in a hot big bang.
Public support is growing for expenditures on mass transit and infrastructure and remains high for education and health care, according to a National Opinion Research Center survey at the University of Chicago that has been following spending trends for 35 years.
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