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The University of Chicago has named its Physics Research Center in honor of former faculty member and founding physics department chair Albert A. Michelson, a pioneering scientist who was the first ...

The University of Chicago Medicine broke ground on its $815 million project to build the state’s first standalone structure dedicated to cancer care and research. The 575,000-square-foot, seven-story ...

The Class of 2030 has arrived. The University of Chicago welcomed its newest students to campus last week, each of them ready ...

You can watch how these galaxies coalesced over time and formed the familiar spiral disk we see today, thanks to a new set of ...

New research by neuroscientists at the University of Chicago looked at what happens in the brain when it tries to complete ...

How concerned should we be about the future of our democracy? Experts, officials from battleground states, researchers and journalists debated that question and more during a Sept. 26 event at the ...

It sounds like a just-so story—“How the Insect Got its Wings”—but it’s really a mystery that has puzzled biologists for over a century. Intriguing and competing theories of insect wing evolution have ...

The University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and Chicago Public Media are partnering on a new initiative, which will bring together 40 civic-minded Chicagoans of different backgrounds, ...

If you had to describe Rich Uncle Pennybags—the Monopoly mascot—would you mention his top hat? His mustache? How about his monocle? The face of the famous board game has, in reality, never worn a ...

Nearly two years ago, the Washington Post published the Afghanistan Papers, sensitive materials revealing how Afghan forces were unable to hold back the Taliban. Those government documents revealed ...