The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced on Jan. 28 that the hands of the Doomsday Clock are moving forward, to 89 ...

UChicago scientists are making major progress on a technology designed to recreate tactile feedback to give nuanced “feeling” ...

The University of Chicago is a key part of the flourishing quantum ecosystem in Illinois and beyond. With the launch of the ...

UChicago center brings scholarship to the public through art of Betye Saar, Otolith Group and Art Institute’s ‘Project a ...

The suckers are also packed with sensory receptors that allow the octopus to taste and smell things that they touch—like combining a hand with a tongue and a nose. The researchers believe the ...

Political commentators, academics and others have been wringing their hands over threats to democracy in recent years. A new study helps us better understand one of the possible driving forces behind ...

Ruby Bridges was just six years old when she became the first Black student to integrate an all-white New Orleans’ public school alone in 1960. Flanked by U.S. marshals, the world watched as she ...

In 2014, in response to a wave of schools and universities disinviting speakers for their unpopular views, the University of Chicago created a faculty committee to articulate the University’s ...

Five years after COVID became a global pandemic, could another health crisis be on our horizon? According to scientists who study diseases, the possibility of a fungal pandemic—the subject of science ...

Doctor Valluvan Jeevanandam says that transplantation is a “spiritual journey.” One person’s tragic loss leads to the another’s second chance at life. But not all transplants are the same. In 2018, ...