The long and strange lives of Enrico Fermi’s accelerator building at UChicago
Campus space has shaped scientific research, from cosmic rays to the Higgs boson to dinosaur fossils
Gene Mazenko, UChicago physicist and leading theorist in statistical mechanics, 1945–2024
Remembered for humor, love of sports, and patient but rigorous mentorship
UChicago’s Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics celebrates 20 years of discovery
Astronomers, physicists investigate big questions about the universe in unique collaborative environment
Upgraded synchrotron starts up at Argonne National Laboratory
Lab heralds ‘new era of scientific discovery’ for everything from batteries to biology at Advanced Photon Source
NASA selects UChicago undergraduates’ proposal to build a ‘nano-satellite’
Student-designed CubeSat aims to increase speed, security of space-to-ground communications
New UChicago course applies scientific reasoning to political decision making
In ‘Sense & Sensibility & Science,’ undergraduates get hands-on experience with scientific method
First results from BREAD experiment demonstrate a new approach to searching for dark matter
UChicago, Fermilab research uses coaxial “dish” antenna to scan for mysterious particles
Howard Stein, acclaimed UChicago philosopher and historian of physics, 1929‒2024
Scholar remembered for his curiosity, elegant writing, and dedication to the history and philosophy of physics
For the first time, scientists take an atomic freeze-frame of liquid water
Argonne, UChicago findings open a new field of experimental physics
Research suggests how turbulence can be used to generate patterns
Physicists show how patterns can emerge from chaos in turbulent fluids