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Golems, Angels and AI: What non-humans teach us about humanity

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

32 UChicago faculty members receive named, distinguished service professorships in 2026

Thirty-two members of the University of Chicago faculty have received distinguished service professorships or named professorships, effective Jan. 1.

Why can’t powerful AIs learn basic multiplication?

New research reveals why even state-of-the-art large language models stumble on seemingly easy tasks—and what it takes to fix it

Exhibition traces ‘inseparable’ links between gaming and fantasy genre

In ‘Charting Imaginary Worlds,’ UChicago Library presented a collection that spanned history, literature and fun

Emotional memories stick when the brain works ‘in harmony,’ study finds

A team of UChicago psychology researchers used fMRI scans to learn why certain moments carry such lasting power

How 3,000-year-old poems landed in a top literary magazine

With new translations from the long-extinct Hittite language, UChicago Ph.D. student Naomi Harris brought verses from clay tablets to "The Paris Review"

Using quantum mechanics, researchers crack the hidden chemistry of ice

New theory by UChicago PME researchers has implications for melting permafrost and climate change

Fossil study rewrites timeline of evolution of hearing in mammals

UChicago paleontologists use CT scanning and simulations to show how a 250-million-year-old mammal predecessor could hear like us

Reflecting on 2025 at UChicago

Looking back at the past year, 2025 was marked by discovery and transformation at the University of Chicago.