Fossil flowers prove to be a fertile field
Paleontologist discovers blossoming plant diversity in 100-million-year-old specimens.
Steve Koppes
Science meets art and the sparks fly
Cutting-edge research and technology combine with artistic imagination and creativity in exhibition.
Naomi Beck
Stone Age graveyard reveals Green Sahara
Paleontologist Paul Sereno and his team discovered the richest collection of prehistoric human remains known anywhere in the Sahara.
Steve Koppes
Where outer space and medicine meet
Two University of Chicago Pritzker Medical School students author an American Medical Association policy supporting NASA‘s role in advancing medicine.
Eileen Norris
A 3,000-year-old patient
Radiologists and Egyptologists team up to analyze Meresamun, a nearly 3,000 year-old-Egyptian mummy.
Suzanne Wilder
A $20 million gift, a new agenda in science
Bill Eckhardt, MS '70, has donated $20 million to build new fields of scientific expertise.
Steve Koppes
Goldwater scholars share passion for science
Two College students are among the 321 national students named Goldwater scholars by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation for their outstanding achievements in science.
Julia Morse
Neil Shubin: Tracing fins to limbs
Since making headlines two years ago with a surprising 375-million-year-old fossil, the evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin continues to unlock the secrets of life’s formerly blurry transition from sea to land.
Hannah Hayes
Sloan Digital Sky Survey Changes the Face of Astronomy
272 stars gave their lives for the photo spread on cosmic explosions that graced pages 80 and 81 of the March 2007 National Geographic.
Steve Koppes