Louise Lerner

Cleaning the Persepolis relief

Ancient Persian artifact nearly 2,500 years old returns to Oriental Institute

Alex Eskin

UChicago mathematician, physicists win $3 million ‘Oscars of science’

Spondylus americanus and Arctica islandica

Why there are so many species at the equator—and so few at the poles

Scholars excavate Sam’al

Burned buildings reveal sacking of ancient Turkish city 3,500 years ago

Salt mountain

Salt deposits on Mars hold clues to sources of ancient water

Parker and Fox

Eugene Parker on first year of namesake NASA mission: ‘It’s pretty exciting stuff’

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White House honors two UChicago scientists for innovative research

Tell Edfu

OI marks 100 years of discovery in ancient Middle East

Kepler mission rendering

New exoplanet is smallest to be precisely measured

Water pumped into basin

Krypton reveals ancient water beneath the Israeli desert