Jan 2, 2025 · When Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a “special military operation” on Feb. 24, 2022, University of Chicago Prof. Konstantin Sonin called the full-scale invasion of …

Prominent archaeologist Frederick Johnson said that carbon-14 dating had the impact of an “atomic bomb” on archaeology. In 1997, anthropologist R.E. Taylor said that “14C data made a …

Jan 23, 2024 · The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced on Jan. 23 that the hands of the Doomsday Clock will remain at 90 seconds to midnight—the closest it has ever been to …

Why do we sleep? Sleep is literally critical to our survival. We know this thanks to the groundbreaking work of UChicago Prof. Allan Rechtschaffen, a sleep research pioneer and …

Sep 19, 2022 · The origin of life on Earth stands as one of the great mysteries of science. To find out if we are alone in the galaxy, we will need to better understand what geochemical …

In this episode of “COVID 2025: Our World in the Next 5 Years,” Baicker discusses how the pandemic has shown the interconnectedness of the U.S. population—and that old dividing …

Dec 5, 2024 · Paul Rand: It’s an experience every one of us is guaranteed to go through in our lives. It’s inescapable, and so we often don’t question it, we just accept it without wondering …

Commedia dell’arte, or “comedy of professional artists,” was a form of highly physical, improvised theater that flourished in the 1500s during the Italian Renaissance.. Troupes of traveling actors …

Jun 16, 2022 · Incarcerated workers generate billions of dollars worth of goods and services annually but are paid pennies per hour without proper training or opportunity to build skills for …

Dark energy, explained. Coined by University of Chicago astrophysicist Michael Turner in 1998, dark energy—the force causing the universe to expand faster over time—remains one of the …