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 ...

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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 ...

On June 11, the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine announced the result of a three-year study to set a ...

University of Chicago rising fourth-years Annie Yang and Seri Welsh have been recognized by the Udall Foundation for their ...

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 ...

Radiocarbon dating, or carbon-14 dating, is a scientific method that can accurately determine the age of organic materials as old as approximately 60,000 years. First developed in the late 1940s at ...