Louise Lerner

Astronaut Harrison Schmitt

50 years later, UChicago scientists continue to decode moon’s mysteries

Red giants

New measure of Hubble constant adds to mystery about universe’s expansion rate

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

RNA editing

Using human genome, scientists build CRISPR for RNA to open pathways for medicine

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

Sloth

Study shakes up sloth family tree

Heart muscle cell

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

Clara Blättler

Scientists discover ancient seawater preserved from the last Ice Age