Deep under an Italian mountainside, a giant detector filled with tons of liquid xenon has been looking for dark matter—particles of a mysterious substance whose effects we can see in the universe, but ...

A new study from researchers at the University of Chicago shows that despite an increase of supermarkets across Chicago, low-income neighborhoods have not reaped the benefits. The study published in ...

The University of Chicago has announced the recipients of the 2026 Academic Communicators Network (ACN) Excellence Awards, ...

Three-week course explored how relationships among people, land and human health changed as the port city became a global player ...

In 2024, a remarkable shift hit the music world: AI-generated songs exploded onto streaming platforms, making up nearly half of all newly uploaded tracks. But as the lines blur between human artistry ...

One hundred years ago, on July 10, 1925, the trial of John T. Scopes began. It concluded 11 days later with a conviction. Today, this battle in the conflict over religion and science in United States ...

Over his six-decade career, UChicago professor championed honest scholarship, diverse perspectives and his students ...

Prof. Lauren Berlant, a world-renowned scholar who examined what sentimentality means in American culture for gender, sexuality and politics, died June 28 of a rare form of cancer. A beloved mentor ...

University of Chicago alum Claudia Goldin was awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2023 on Oct. 9 for her pioneering research on identifying drivers of ...

In a crowded fourth-grade classroom in Chicago, a new kind of tutor is shaping how children learn about empathy, conflict, and problem-solving. These robots aren’t programmed to act like friendly ...

University of Chicago fourth-year physics major Larry Li cruised through the New Mexican desert night in a tiny hatchback stuffed with toolboxes, a 3D printer and a payload that would soon float to ...

When Assoc. Prof. Stephen Pruett-Jones, an ecologist at the University of Chicago, first came to Chicago in 1988, he stumbled on a unique piece of the city’s history: the monk parakeets of Hyde Park.