New UChicago Divinity School course uses religious texts and popular sci-fi to shed light on what it means to be human ...

New research reveals why even state-of-the-art large language models stumble on seemingly easy tasks—and what it takes to fix ...

As electronics have gotten smaller and more flexible, they’ve been incorporated into more uses in the field of healthcare.

A team of UChicago psychology researchers used fMRI scans to learn why certain moments carry such lasting power ...

With new translations from the long-extinct Hittite language, UChicago Ph.D. student Naomi Harris brought verses from clay ...

Now, researchers at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and the Abdus Salam International ...

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have observed an entirely new type of exoplanet whose atmospheric composition challenges our understanding of how this type of planet forms. This ...

“Sy Hersh, AB '58, the greatest journalist of his generation, yarns yet another hard-scrabble tale: spanning from his childhood in Chicago, time here as a student, to becoming a lowly overnight beat ...

University of Chicago students Logan Hanssler and Elijah Jenkins, both fourth-years in the College, have been selected as 2026 Marshall Scholars. Each will be provided the opportunity to study in ...

Norbert Holtkamp has been appointed as the new director of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, effective Jan. 12, 2026. Holtkamp brings deep scientific and operational expertise to Fermilab, which ...

In terms of illegal drugs, few have caused as much harm as fentanyl. The powerful synthetic opioid has been responsible for about 266,000 deaths in the United States since 2021 and now drives roughly ...