Students who spontaneously mimic the gestures of their teachers while learning mathematics learn new strategies more quickly than those who don't, new research at the University of Chicago shows. This is the first study to show that the gestures students themselves produce have an impact on student learning.
A researcher has found that creative people fall into two camps: the conceptual artists who come up with new visions for their fields and blossom early, and the experimental artists who spend long careers polishing approaches to their work and often achieve their most important success later in life.
In the nation's first survey of altruistic love, scholars have found that people who have strong feelings of love for people in general are more likely to have strong romantic relationships.
Geologists have learned that the height of the Tibetan Plateau, sometimes called "the roof of the world," has remained remarkably constant for at least 35 million years. Before their last expedition to Tibet, the geologists expected to find evidence that the plateau was rising 35 million years ago.
Today's parents are multitasking more than ever: juggling parental duties, working increasing hours and keeping up with household chores. But rather than feelings of efficiency, multitasking often produces stress and anxiety.
The language we speak affects half of what we see, according to researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Chicago.
The process of deciding how to rebuild New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina is undermined by sharp racial gaps between blacks and whites about what should be done, according to new research by political scientists at the University of Chicago.
As Americans pause to reflect on time gone by on the threshold of a new year, many will have reason to think that their lives have not gotten better as they report more incidents of illness, inability to afford medical care, unemployment, pressure to pay bills, and unstable romantic relationships.
Christmas is a time for many Americans to be reminded of their religious values, and for about half of the nation's population, their religious life includes having experienced a spiritual transformation that altered their lives, according to new research.
University of Chicago physicists have created a novel state of matter using nothing more than a container of loosely packed sand and a falling marble. They have found that the impacting marble produces a jet of sand grains that briefly behaves like a special type of dense fluid.
Scientists will puzzle over the physics of the beginning of the universe, a mysterious force called dark energy that works against gravity, and many other cosmic mysteries at the University of Chicago's New Views of the Universe symposium Dec. 9 to 13.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists will honor its 60th anniversary on Saturday, Dec. 3, with a public forum on doomsday and a screening of Stanley Kubrick's 1964 masterpiece, "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb."
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has made a five-year, $13.3 million award to sustain and enhance the Globus Toolkit, the software that underpins a rapidly increasing number of large information-intensive science projects in the United States and abroad.
President Bush named the University of Chicago's Robert Clayton among the 2004 recipients of the National Medal of Science, the nation's highest scientific honor, the White House announced Monday.
Despite its growing weight, America does not have an "obesity epidemic," according to new research by Eric Oliver. The idea that Americans' increasing girth is a catastrophic disease is largely a myth promoted by the weight loss industry and diet doctors, writes Oliver in a new book.
Collaborating scientists from 16 countries will rendezvous in Malargüe, Argentina, Nov. 10 and 11 for a celebration at the Pierre Auger Observatory, the largest cosmic-ray detector ever built.
Heredity helps determine why some adults are persistently lonely, research shows. Working with colleagues in The Netherlands, the scholars found about 50 percent of identical twins and 25 percent of fraternal twins shared similar characteristics of loneliness.
Sir Peter Crane, the director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in England, has announced that he will resign his position there to accept a faculty appointment in the University of Chicago's Department of Geophysical Sciences effective July 1, 2006.
Having a teacher who students perceive cares is associated with lower rates of drug and sexual risk behaviors among high risk youth, according to a new study headed by a University of Chicago researcher.
Journalists are invited to attend "New Views of the Universe," the Inaugural Symposium of the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago from Thursday, Dec. 8, to Tuesday, Dec. 13.
An international team of scientists using three NASA satellites and a host of ground-based telescopes believes it has solved the greatest remaining mystery of the mysterious gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the most powerful explosions in the universe.
NASA's Swift satellite and ground-based telescopes have discovered the most distant exploding star on record, confirming a 1999 prediction made by University of Chicago astrophysicist Don Lamb and Daniel Reichart, who was then a graduate student at Chicago.
The University of Chicago is opening up spots in the College, Law School, Business School and other graduate programs, for applicants displaced from their home institutions by Hurricane Katrina.
Analysis of several different satellite records and surface monitoring instruments indicates that the ozone layer is no longer declining, according to a study.
The National Science Foundation has awarded $48 million to the University of Chicago over the next five years to operate and expand TeraGrid, a national-scale system of interconnected computers that scientists and engineers are using to solve some of their most challenging problems.
The University of Chicago's Nicolas Dauphas has developed a new way to calculate the age of the Milky Way that is free of the unvalidated assumptions that have plagued previous methods. Dauphas' method can now be used to tackle other mysteries of the cosmos that have remained unsolved for decades.
Intergenerational transmission of infant abuse is more likely caused by early experience than genetic inheritance, new University of Chicago research on macaque monkeys shows.
Imrpov comedy was born almost 50 years ago, on July 5, 1955. The founder of improvisational comedy is celebrating its golden anniversary by coming back to the place where it all began.
University of Chicago physicists have made careful measurements of flowing sand that can help resolve longstanding questions regarding how glasses differ from liquids at the atomic level, the scientists report.
A team of scientists at the University of Chicago has developed a non-invasive laboratory technique that allows them to instantly map when genes are switching off and on in a living bacterium as it becomes exposed to antibiotics and other changes in its environment.
Scientists have constructed a computer simulation that allows them to study the relationship between biochemical fluctuations within a single cell and the cell's behavior as it interacts with other cells and its environment.
Students at the University of Chicago will soon be able to observe the complex fluid motion of the atmosphere and ocean in a new laboratory that will echo the innovative experiments devised by meteorologist Dave Fultz more than 50 years ago.
Observations of a cosmic explosion detected on Feb. 15 by two NASA satellites have thrown into doubt one popular explanation for such explosions and have also seriously weakened the argument for yet another. But solving the mystery any time soon may be forestalled by plans to shut down one of the satellites in September.
Administrative disorganization, delays and processing hassles are blocking access to the safety net that provides public benefits to eligible poor and low-income Chicago area residents. These failures are hurting working poor families.
Researchers from around the country will address University of Chicago faculty, administrators and students about the under-representation of women in science during a symposium that will meet from 1 to 5:30 p.m. Friday, May 20, in the Biological Sciences Learning Center auditorium.
The achievement gap between African-Americans and whites has stalled and is likely to persist for generations unless something is done to improve the learning experiences of African-American children, contends new research at the University of Chicago.
An instrument designed and built at the University of Chicago for the Cassini space probe has discovered dust particles around Enceladus, an ice-covered moon of Saturn that has the distinction of being the most reflective object in the solar system.
A research team that in 2003 created an exotic new form of matter has now shown for the first time how to arrange that matter into complex molecules. The experiments may lead to a better scientific understanding of superconductivity and advance a growing new field called superchemistry.
The University of Chicago has established a new Science Policy Council in collaboration with Northwestern University and the University of Illinois that will oversee he scientific mission of Argonne National Laboratory.
Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and the University of Chicago have explained how a globe-encircling residue formed in the aftermath of the asteroid impact that triggered the extinction of the dinosaurs.
University of Chicago physicists have learned how to eliminate what scientists formerly regarded as the inevitable splashing that occurs after a liquid crashes onto a flat surface. It turns out that the removal of air eliminates the splash process.
The University of Chicago has appointed Robert Rosner to the directorship of Argonne National Laboratory effective April 18. His appointment was approved by Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman.
Although derived from scientific data, the spectacular images from the Hubble Space Telescope circulate far beyond the scientific community. From postage stamps to the cover of Pearl Jam CDs, images of the heavens collected by the Hubble Space Telescope have become part of American culture.
A panel of physicists and astronomers will preview emerging theories and experiments aimed at solving the mystery of dark energy, an invisible force that dominates the universe.
Researchers at the University of Chicago have come up with a technique for teachers to use that increases student understanding of mathematics: explain how to solve a problem in one way, and also provide an alternative approach through gesture.
The fossil record may not be perfect, but it passed a critical test with flying colors, according to a study by a University of Chicago paleontologist.
University of Chicago scientists say they still hope that the U.S. Department of Energy will decide to build the $1 billion Rare Isotope Accelerator in Illinois, despite a $2.7 million cut in preliminary funding for the accelerator in this year's DOE budget.
Making a bottom-line-only decision for investing in personal supports for workers makes employee support programs vulnerable for elimination during times of economic downturns, said Susan Lambert, Associate Professor in the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago.
Experiments led by Nicolas Dauphas of the University of Chicago and Chicago's Field Museum have validated some controversial rocks from Greenland as the potential site for the earliest evidence of life on Earth.
Weather derivatives are a small segment of the massive financial derivatives industry, a potential career path for graduates of the University of Chicago's Financial Mathematics Program.
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