Jumper, who was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, was an unusual student in other ways, too. His first love was ...

“Physics with a Bang!” will be held Dec. 7 at the University of Chicago Kersten Physics Teaching Center, 5720 S. Ellis Ave., ...

Palmer is an associate professor at the University of Chicago whose work sits at the intersection of biology, physics, ...

The modern city of Luxor, known in the ancient world as Thebes, has one of the largest concentrations of ancient monuments in ...

The University of Chicago’s endowment ended FY24 at $10.4 billion as of June 30, 2024 with a 8.4% return on investments.

Established in 1954, the Economic Outlook series is a renowned tradition at Chicago Booth, in which some of the nation’s ...

Cosmic rays are particles from outer space that travel across the universe. They can be made by the sun, by other stars exploding, and even black holes. They move extremely fast, nearly the speed of ...

The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor that represents how close humanity is to self-destruction, due to nuclear weapons and climate change. The clock hands are set by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, ...

The Hubble constant is one of the most important numbers in cosmology because it tells us how fast the universe is expanding, which can be used to determine the age of the universe and its history. It ...

The Earth formed over 4.6 billion years ago out of a mixture of dust and gas around the young sun. It grew larger thanks to countless collisions between dust particles, asteroids, and other growing ...

In 2016, a University of Chicago scholar stumbled across an extraordinary piece of writing that had been lost for nearly two centuries—one of the few firsthand book-length accounts of slavery, and ...

Editor’s note: This is part of a series called “The Day Tomorrow Began,” which explores the history of breakthroughs at UChicago. Learn more here. The quantum internet is a network of quantum ...