While coronavirus continues to be a top concern for public health officials, air pollution remains a major threat to our wellbeing and life expectancy. Pollution…
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An artist’s rendering of a new electrocatalytic process that can convert carbon dioxide and water into ethanol. Credit: Argonne National Laboratory A research team led…
Vitamin D is sometimes called the sunshine vitamin. In a retrospective study of patients tested for COVID-19, researchers at the University of Chicago Medicine found…
Study to test Eli Lilly and Company’s LY-CoV555, a human monoclonal antibody against the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, will examine its ability to combat the virus…
An artistic illustration of extrasolar planetary systems. Credit: NASA ESA and M. Kornmesser ESO Researchers simulate thousands of worlds to see what happens to planets…
In her debut book How You Say It, UChicago psychologist Katherine D. Kinzler explores how we interpret language to divide the world into social groups.…
The use of facial recognition systems by large companies has serious ramifications for personal privacy. Fawkes, a free tool from UChicago computer scientists, is one…
Using computational analysis, research team shows how ebselen binds to SARS CoV-2 main four protease. First appearing in late 2019 in Wuhan City, China, the…
Chicago Booth’s Ayelet Fishbach offers advice for dealing with loneliness and COVID-19. The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped social life in the United States, forcing many…
New research projects will use computational tools to better detect, diagnose, treat and prevent the spread of COVID-19. University of Chicago researchers launch projects exploring…
Graduate student Uri Zvi works in the Esser-Kahn lab at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago. The lab is one…
A team of scientists at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering announced the discovery of a simple modification that allows quantum systems…
An image of self-assembled peptide nanofibers, which are currently under investigation for engineered vaccines. Credit: Collier Lab Study shows that peptide nanofibers induce immune response…
Nationwide effort to build quantum networks and usher in new era of communications. Credit: Image by UChicago In a press conference at the University of…
Coronavirus is changing life as we know it on a daily basis. But what will our world look like in the next five years? How…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope measures the oldest light in the universe, known as the cosmic microwave background. Using those measurements, scientists can calculate the universe’s…
A new report from the University of Chicago Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic measured 2018 police department policies against standards like those set by…
A rendering of a potential affordable, handheld COVID-19 testing device. The researchers hope to be evaluating prototypes in less than a year. Credit: Pritzker School…
Approximately one third of the 3.8 million female breast cancer survivors in the US today have undergone mastectomy, and as many as three quarters of…
Digital testing method could yield new information on virus, course of disease. “It’s like having your brain tickled through your nose.” “Longest five seconds of…