The Cassini spacecraft has observed geysers erupting on Saturn’s moon Enceladus since 2005. Now, scientists at the University of Chicago and Princeton University have pinpointed a mechanism by which cyclical tidal stresses exerted by Saturn can drive Enceladus’s long-lived eruptions.
In 2011, Yamuna Krishnan’s research group became the first to demonstrate the functioning of a DNA nanomachine inside a living organism. Last summer, her team reported another achievement: the development of a DNA nanosensor that measures the physiological concentration of chloride.
In The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom, published in March by the Harvard University Press, Stephen Stigler identifies seven fundamental principles of statistics, a largely interdisciplinary field.
The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation has renewed its three-year award with the University of Chicago to fund undergraduate STEM research, one of only 12 so honored this year.
Twenty-two communities from across the United States will work with Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago in partnership on Voices of Youth Count, a first-of-its-kind national effort aimed at ending youth homelessness.
A new comprehensive study of children’s well-being in China reveals glaring disparities in education, economic conditions and emotional health between rural and urban children and the need for educational and public policy reforms to help close those gaps.
A new study confirms the age-old conception that meditation is associated with wisdom. Surprisingly, it also concludes that somatic (physical) practices such as classical ballet might lead to increased wisdom.
University of Chicago scientists have discovered evidence in a meteorite that a rare element, curium, was present during the formation of the solar system. This finding ends a 35-year-old debate on the possible presence of curium in the early solar system.
The power of loneliness — its potential for causing depression and other serious health problems as well as its surprising role in keeping humans safe from harm.
University of Chicago assistant professors Jonathan Simon and Bozhi Tian are among the 105 researchers that President Obama has named recipients of Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers.
Biomedical informatics, one of the world’s fastest-growing interdisciplinary fields, is the latest graduate degree program offered by the University of Chicago Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies.
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded five UChicago faculty members 2016 Sloan Research Fellowships.
Researchers at the University of Chicago and the University of Konstanz have demonstrated the ability to generate a quantum logic operation, or rotation of the qubit, that is intrinsically resilient to noise as well as to variations in the strength or duration of the control.
A new cellular signal discovered by a team of scientists at the University of Chicago with scientists from Tel Aviv University provides a promising new lever in the control of gene expression.
For the first time, scientists have observed ripples in the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves, arriving at the earth from a cataclysmic event in the distant universe. This confirms a major prediction of Albert Einstein’s 1915 general theory of relativity and opens an unprecedented new window onto the cosmos.
Paul Wiegmann is spending this academic year as a Simons Fellow in Theoretical Physics. His Simons project evolved from a graduate course that he teaches on topology and geometry in physics.
A group of more than 50 computer scientists and engineers from the University of Chicago and industry gathered Friday at Harper Court in Hyde Park for a research summit to launch the new CERES Center for Unstoppable Computing.
Later this year, during what passes for summer in Antarctica, a group of Chicago scientists will arrive at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole research station to install a new and enhanced instrument designed to plumb the earliest history of the cosmos.
John Light, one of the first scientists to describe the dynamics of chemical reactions on a molecular scale, died Monday, Jan. 18, 2016, in a Denver hospital following a severe illness. He was 81.
Davie Miller's Fire Scholarship to the University of Chicago started him on a path that resulted in his appointment as the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in Physics in 2013.
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