Debates around the meaning of objective facts and truth dominate the national conversation, prompting the American Academy of Arts & Sciences to bring together scientists to discuss how to re-establish the authority of science and strengthen its influence on...
Deep in a basement lab of the Gordon Center for Integrative Sciences lies a sophisticated tangle of steel tubes, bolts and wires—a device so sensitive that a misalignment of one degree can greatly reduce its performance. Since 2014, physics undergraduates at the...
Many scientists have developed models to predict the total number of species on Earth—including those not yet discovered—of an animal or plant group, but University of Chicago researchers have developed the first such model that breaks the number down by region,...
