National Laboratories, Physical Sciences
University of Chicago scientists are part of an international research team that has discovered superconductivity—the ability to conduct electricity perfectly—at the highest temperatures ever recorded. Using advanced technology at Argonne National Laboratory, the team...
Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Medicine
Pharmaceutical chemists have a trick when they’re designing a drug and want to make it easier for the body to take up without metabolic side effects: they might add a quaternary center—a carbon atom bonded to four other carbon atoms. The trouble is, such centers are...
Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Medicine, National Laboratories
The University of Chicago’s Microbiome Research Symposium last month brought together experts from UChicago, Argonne National Laboratory and the Marine Biological Laboratory to meet with students, postdoctoral scholars and early-career scientists. Participants...
Computing and Data Science, National Laboratories, Physical Sciences, Quantum
Funding available for projects in quantum and AI research A new joint task force initiative between the University of Chicago, Argonne and Fermilab, will provide seed funding for collaborative projects in AI and quantum information science. The new grants programs...