Throughout your exploration of this world, you discover a number of mysteries and solve puzzles, all while interacting with ...

University of Chicago President Paul Alivisatos has been named one of this year’s winners of the Enrico Fermi Presidential ...

Winter break is the perfect time to curl up with a book or two that you might not normally have time to read, so every year, ...

Mónica Ruiz House graduated from UChicago in 2024 with a quadruple degree in law, letters and society; sociology; Romance ...

Dressed in scrubs, the group’s volunteers visit schools and sports leagues to conduct training sessions on topics like ...

Wendy Freedman one of Nature’s 10 people who helped shape science in 2024 Wendy Freedman, the University of Chicago John and ...

University of Chicago. The University launched groundbreaking new centers and institutes; celebrated awards and recognition for extraordinary faculty, students and alumni; deepened its historic ...

The Hubble constant is one of the most important numbers in cosmology because it tells us how fast the universe is expanding, which can be used to determine the age of the universe and its history. It ...

The Earth formed over 4.6 billion years ago out of a mixture of dust and gas around the young sun. It grew larger thanks to countless collisions between dust particles, asteroids, and other growing ...

The solar wind is a flow of particles that comes off the sun at about one million miles per hour and travels throughout the entire solar system. First proposed in the 1950s by University of Chicago ...

Editor’s note: This is part of a series called “The Day Tomorrow Began,” which explores the history of breakthroughs at UChicago. Learn more here. Radiocarbon dating, or carbon-14 dating, is a ...

Editor’s note: This is part of a series called “The Day Tomorrow Began,” which explores the history of breakthroughs at UChicago. Learn more here. The “Fertile Crescent,” a term coined by University ...