In the 1980s, the theory that dinosaurs were wiped out by a massive meteor that hit the Earth began to gain scientific ...

Twenty-six members of the University of Chicago faculty have received distinguished service professorships or named ...

Priscilla Diane Chapman Frisch, a University of Chicago Research Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics and a world-leading ...

UChicago-led analysis of Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover data may explain why planet was likely harsh desert for most ...

July 14-16 gathering to create recommendations for policymakers and leaders to reduce the threat of nuclear war ...

The earliest light in the universe has been traveling across space since just after the Big Bang. Known as the cosmic ...

Step inside the laboratory as Chibueze Amanchukwu and his team investigate the chemistry that could lead to better batteries ...

Once one of the most difficult colors to recreate in paint, blue was only available to medieval artists, for example, by grinding up the prized stone known as lapis lazuli. By the 1900s, it was still ...

When it comes to hidden gems on the University of Chicago campus, it’s hard to beat the assortment of carved stone men, beasts and inanimate objects clinging to various buildings. But aside from the ...

Thirteen months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul and former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel sat down to discuss the war and what remains at stake ...

Yiran Fan, a 30-year-old Ph.D. student at UChicago, was shot and killed on Jan. 9. Part of a joint program of Chicago Booth and the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics, Fan is remembered as ...