When inserted into living cells, diamond-based biosensors experience energy level shifts called “zero-field splitting” (ZFS), ...

IBM and researchers from the University of Chicago announced July 30 a demonstration in quantum computing that meets the fundamental criteria for “quantum advantage”—the point where quantum computers ...

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

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

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

While many environmental science majors spend their summers in campus labs, rising third-year Brianna Leech found herself in a NASA research center, building presentations on the spread of invasive ...

A mouse runs through a maze it’s explored a dozen times. But inside its brain, the map is never quite the same. New research from the University of Chicago is shedding light on how the mind ...

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

We know many things about our universe, but astronomers are still debating exactly how fast it is expanding. In fact, over the past two decades, two major ways to measure this number—known as the ...

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 ...

R. Stephen Berry, a pioneering University of Chicago scientist who spent his life making fundamental contributions across the fields of chemistry and energy policy, died July 26. He was 89. Berry, the ...