On one level, “almost all humor involves some kind of deception, involves some kind of trickery, some kind of misdirection,” ...

Prof. Randal C. “Randy” Picker, an influential legal scholar and beloved teacher whose ties to the University of Chicago ...

Science communications minor teaches College students to ditch the jargon to bridge the gap between research and the real world ...

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With fMRI scans and computational modeling, researchers find food decisions in anorexia engage brain region tied to ...

But how can something so simple give us a glimpse into past civilizations? In the basement of the Institute for the Study of ...

David Axelrod, who has served as director of the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics since its founding, intends to step down from his role in January 2023 to become a senior fellow at the ...

UChicago PME scientists show that atomic channels can separate rare earth elements from each other—without using toxic ...

UChicago-led research on cells from mice that had been on the International Space Station for more than a month suggests astronaut hearts can withstand longer trips ...

Britt Salvesen, PhD‘98, a curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and head of the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department and the Prints & Drawings Department, recalled Snyder as a ...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010—known now mostly as the ACA or Obamacare—dramatically expanded publicly supported health insurance coverage across the United States. But how ...