Division of the Physical Sciences

How to better forecast once-in-a-millennium weather events

UChicago researchers combine AI with statistics and physics to better estimate the odds of rare weather

UChicago chemists 'film' light-matter hybrid particles

Breakthrough could enable future computing or electronic technologies

Science stars at special UChicago, Argonne screening of ‘Project Hail Mary’

Researchers and students marked the new film with a panel discussion, hands-on science demos and a shared love of discovery

Free UChicago talks to explore how particles from space can help us understand our world

Learn about the particles showering down on Earth and how scientists find them at annual Arthur H. Compton Lecture series

U.S. weather and climate disasters could top $1 trillion by 2030

Analyzing NOAA's billion-dollar weather disaster database, a UChicago study projects sharply rising costs driven by climate change and expanding development

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