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 ...

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

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

Vincenzo Vitelli, a professor of physics at the University of Chicago known for his innovative work in unconventional materials, has been named a 2026 MacArthur Fellow. Given each year by the John D.

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, ...

Enshrining a right in the constitution is no guarantee that a nation will enforce it—but some rights are harder to violate than others, according to Prof. Adam Chilton of the University of Chicago Law ...

Over 300 million years ago, a minnow-sized fish died and fell to the bottom of the prehistoric swamp near what is now the village of Trawden, in northwest England. The remains of this tiny fish—known ...

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 ...

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 ...

During the pandemic, Assoc. Prof. Ada Palmer kept hearing one question: If the Black Plague caused the Renaissance, will COVID cause a golden age? It was “such a bad question,” she said, that the ...

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 ...