Science & Medicine

09.18.2015

UChicago alum hopes to be among first colonists on Mars.

09.10.2015

UChicago scientists find protein aggregation after heat shock is an organized, reversible cellular response.

08.06.2015

UChicago neuroscientists are working on technology to help paraplegics move robotic arms using their minds.

07.09.2015

DNA is the blueprint of life—an maybe also its troubleshooting manual.
July–Aug/15

Cardiologist C. Noel Bairey Merz, AB’77, minds—and mends—the gender gap in women’s heart health.

July–Aug/15

Professor Sian Beilock explains how using the body helps students better learn science.

July–Aug/15

When geneticist Yoav Gilad and a colleague detected errors in an influential study, Gilad took to Twitter with their finding.

July–Aug/15

Grossman Institute scholars explore—and begin to explain—the brain’s vast complexities.

July–Aug/15

Scientists are discovering how microbes not only make us sick but also keep our bodies working.

07.02.2015

First detailed analysis of the woolly mammoth’s DNA reveals how it adapted to Arctic life.
Summer/15

PSD faculty members discuss Hollywood's portrayal of science and scientists.