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White House honors two UChicago scientists for innovative research

Kepler mission rendering

New exoplanet is smallest to be precisely measured

Illustration of doppelganger orbits

Scientists combine light and matter to make particles with new behaviors

Clemens C. J. Roothaan in computation center

Clemens C.J. Roothaan, eminent quantum chemist and concentration camp survivor, 1918-2019

Plasma in distant galaxy cluster

Scientists use X-rays from faraway galaxy cluster to reveal secrets of plasma

Unruh radiation simulation

Scientists use atoms to simulate quantum physics in curved spacetimes

Heart muscle cell

For the first time, scientists recreate cell division—outside a cell

Sample inside the DAC

Scientists break record for highest-temperature superconductor

Electrospinning

How an episode of ‘Chopped’ led to a fix for future particle accelerators

Youpeng Zhong

Scientists connect quantum bits with sound and over record distances