Student uses NASA data to reveal new details on planets in other solar systems
Study by Jared Siegel, UChicago ’22, sets upper limits on the masses of 50 exoplanets
Rock scooped off speeding asteroid suggests it was once comet that lost its tail
UChicago scientists analyzing Ryugu propose new theory for asteroid origins
University of Chicago chemist Weixin Tang receives 2022 Packard Fellowship
Award will support research to develop new directed-evolution technology
Douglas Diamond wins Nobel Prize for research on banks and financial crises
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences honored Diamond, the Merton H. Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and two other economists for improving “our understanding of the role of banks in the economy, particularly during financial crises.” His pioneering research has changed the way people view banks and laid the groundwork for how central bankers, regulators, policymakers and academics approach modern finance.
UChicago scientists to help lay out vision for future of particle physics
Turner, Kim, Carena among group to consider most pressing questions in coming decades and tools to tackle them
Surprise finding suggests ‘water worlds’ are more common than we thought
Analysis finds evidence for many exoplanets made of water and rock around small stars
Scientists announce first detection of carbon dioxide on a faraway planet with James Webb Space Telescope
First unequivocal detection of carbon dioxide ushers in a new era of exoplanet science
Black hole collisions could help us measure how fast the universe is expanding
UChicago astronomers propose ‘spectral siren’ method to understand evolution of the universe
A new shortcut for quantum simulations could unlock new doors for technology
UChicago scientists create method to efficiently calculate quantum phase transitions