Researchers test our hard-wiring for morality and justice, discover how chemical signals from cells spread ovarian cancer, detect dim stars that shed light on dark energy, and prove that it’s not the thought that counts.

For ethicist and doctor Daniel Sulmasy, medical progress is about more than the body.

The road to safe, reliable bioweapon vaccines for children is fraught with ethical peril. On campus last fall, experts began to plot it out.

Exploring the attributes of low light, an architect and a physicist try to cultivate a dim awareness.

Physicist Joe Incandela, AB’81, SM’85, PhD’86, masters the art of discovery.

Alex Lickerman, AB’88, MD’92, explains how to construct an indestructible self.

Chicago empathy researchers test how far rats will go to rescue a cage mate in distress.

A composer and an astrophysicist embrace feeling lost in space.

On a search for fossils, a doctor tends to the living.

Every year malaria infects hundreds of millions around the globe. Geneticist Thomas Wellems, PhD’80, MD’81, tries to stay one step ahead of the parasite.

A UChicago pediatric surgeon dies as he lived—helping children.