Instead of traveling, consider gathering your relatives together through a recipe swap or virtual movie night. Safe celebrations are possible in a pandemic, but they…
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A heat map as of Oct. 30, showing confirmed cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 people, with darker colors indicating higher case counts. Credit: Center for…
University of Chicago scholar discusses ways to make voting process more democratic. The outcome of every U.S. presidential election hinges on a few key swing…
Election forecasts have come a long way since the Chicago Daily Tribune’s mistaken “Dewey Defeats Truman” headline in 1948—but improved methodology doesn’t mean that unlikely…
An X-class solar flare from our sun in November 2013. Scientists trained a neural network to find such flares in data taken of distant planets…
Earth’s thin shell of oxygen atmosphere keeps us alive, though we still don’t know exactly how it formed. A new study from the University of…
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…
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…