Stuart Alan Rice, a longtime professor at the University of Chicago whose pioneering research shaped the field of physical chemistry in the second half of the 20th century, died Dec. 22 at the age of ...

Survey showed combined race and ethnicity questions caused fewer Hispanic Americans to identify as other races ...

Thirty-one members of the University of Chicago faculty have received distinguished service professorships or named ...

President Joe Biden presents David M. Rubenstein with the Medal of Freedom during a Jan. 4 ceremony at the White House.

As the invasion of Ukraine approaches its third anniversary, we asked Sonin his perspective on the latest regarding the War ...

Researchers in the Cleland Lab at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering have realized a new ...

University of Chicago President Paul Alivisatos was awarded the Enrico Fermi Presidential Award—one of the most prestigious science and technology honors bestowed by the U.S. government—at a Jan. 10 ...

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Prof. Wendy Freedman, one of world’s leading cosmologists, has been awarded the National Medal of Science, the country’s ...

According to scientists who study diseases, the possibility of a fungal pandemic—the subject of science fiction TV shows like “The Last of Us,” could be more of a reality, thanks to climate change and ...

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 ...

Cosmic rays are particles from outer space that travel across the universe. They can be made by the sun, by other stars exploding, and even black holes. They move extremely fast, nearly the speed of ...