Louise Lerner

Artist illustration of a bright star surrounded by rings of slowly differentiating material

Earth’s building blocks formed during the solar system’s first million years, study finds

Artist illustration of the exoplanet WASP-121b

There might be many planets with water-rich atmospheres

Telescope image of dozens of galaxies clustered in space

Using powerful lasers, scientists recreate how magnetic fields grow in clusters of galaxies

Prof. William Irvine

UChicago physicist William Irvine selected for $2 million Brown Investigator Award

3-d illustration of a rocky planet with veins of magma

Scientists confirm third-nearest star with a planet—and it’s rocky like Earth

Scientist works in lab holding pipette

UChicago, Argonne scientists zero in on molecules that could fight COVID-19

artist illustration of bright sun surrounded by glowing disk of matter

Ceramic chips inside meteorites hint at wild days of the early solar system

Roger Hildebrand in bow tie with microphone

Roger Hildebrand, Manhattan Project veteran and ‘giant’ of physics and astrophysics, 1922-2021

Bulletin of Atomic Scientists board members Robert Rosner and Suzet McKinney pull cloth away to reveal 2021 Doomsday Clock

Pandemic ‘a historic wake-up’ call, but Doomsday Clock remains unchanged

A Multiscale Coarse-Grained Model of the SARS-CoV-2 Virion, Biophysical Journal (2021)

UChicago scientists create first computational model of entire virus responsible for COVID-19