Prof. Wendy Freedman, one of world’s leading cosmologists, has been awarded the National Medal of Science, the country’s ...

Thirty-one members of the University of Chicago faculty have received distinguished service professorships or named ...

President Joe Biden presents David M. Rubenstein with the Medal of Freedom during a Jan. 4 ceremony at the White House.

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Researchers in the Cleland Lab at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering have realized a new ...

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 ...

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 Chicago Manual of Style is an American English style guide published by the University of Chicago Press. The Manual’s guidelines for publishing, style and usage, and citations and indexes—known as ...

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, ...

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. Radiocarbon dating, or carbon-14 dating, is a ...

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 “Fertile Crescent,” a term coined by University ...