Division of the Physical Sciences

Dark Energy Survey releases new analysis of how the universe expands

Data from six-year galaxy mapping project narrow down the possible models for how the universe behaves

Chicago youth explore science on-campus with Space Explorers

Since 1991, UChicago’s Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics has connected students from Chicago Public Schools with world-class astronomers and physicists

Simulations show how HIV sneaks into the nucleus of the cell

UChicago chemists assemble massive model of the nuclear pore complex and HIV-1 virus capsid

UChicago scientist awarded Heineman Prize for Astrophysics for ‘pioneering work’

Prof. John Carlstrom cited for microwave interferometry and observations of cosmic microwave background