The Great Red Spot is a gigantic storm, twice the size of Earth, that has swirled for centuries. It’s just one of many on the ...

New UChicago Divinity School course uses religious texts and popular sci-fi to shed light on what it means to be human ...

A 40-year-old forgotten paper helped UChicago scientists develop a faster, more efficient method for synthesizing MXenes at a ...

UChicago experts examine the legality of Maduro’s removal, Venezuela’s future and the Trump administration’s evolving foreign ...

Glasser earned his MD at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City through an early admissions program ...

Prof. Jacqueline Stewart will deliver the keynote address at the University of Chicago’s 2026 MLK Commemoration Celebration ...

One of the most well-studied cellular responses is how they react during times of stress, such as when the temperature gets ...

Black holes are regions in space where an enormous amount of mass is packed into a tiny volume. This creates a gravitational pull so strong that not even light can escape. They are created when giant ...

The term “microbiome” is shorthand for the vast and still largely unexplored worlds of bacteria, viruses, fungi and other microorganisms that inhabit every corner of the planet. Bacteria form tiny ...

“Dark energy” is a term scientists use to refer to whatever is causing the universe to expand faster over time. We don’t know exactly what dark energy is—no one has ever directly seen or measured ...

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 ...

Prof. Emeritus Mihaly “Mike” Csikszentmihalyi, a pioneering University of Chicago psychologist known as the “father of flow,” died Oct. 20 at his home in Claremont, California. He was 87. As a scholar ...