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…
Posts published in “University Of Chicago”
Auto Added by WPeMatico
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…
An illustration of ‘Oumuamua, the first object we’ve ever seen pass through our own solar system that has interstellar origins. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser Study by…
A still image from a simulation of the formation of dark matter structures from the early universe until today. Gravity makes dark matter clump into…
Contact tracing determines who a person diagnosed with COVID-19 has encountered while possibly infectious. University of Chicago computer scientist Blase Ur examines smartphone tracking during…
Chicago Booth scholar estimates 42% of pandemic-related layoffs could be permanent. Chicago Booth scholar investigates whether coronavirus-related job losses eventually return. The numbers are finally…
Researchers are using Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source, a massive kilometer-long accelerator, to analyze proteins that could lead to coronavirus treatments or vaccines. Credit: Argonne National…
Understanding the Earth’s carbon cycle has important implications for understanding climate change and the health of biospheres. But scientists don’t yet understand how much carbon…
A rendering of Parker Solar Probe as it circles the sun—closer to a star than any spacecraft has ever ventured. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben…
(From left) graduate students Kevin Miao, Chris Anderson, and Alexandre Bourassa monitor quantum experiments at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering. Credit: David Awschalom University…
Artist’s impression of an exoplanet smaller than Neptune. A new study suggests a reason why such planets rarely grow larger than Neptune: the planet’s magma…
Scientists believe the moon formed after a large object crashed into the Earth, but details have been murky about what happened next. Credit: Illustration by…
A new study co-authored by UChicago scientists explains how sexual cooperation and bonding evolves among animals with long-lasting pair-bonds, like the Zebra Finch. New research…
A Spondylus americanus (left) from the Florida Keys, a tropical species with long spines that act as defense against predation; and Arctica islandica, sometimes known…