Researchers find higher-level thinking in four-year-olds, chronicle anti-Judaism as a foundational idea in Western thought, parse the the hidden messages in praise for children, and answer a geological mystery: why wasn’t paleo-Earth encased in ice?

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.

Researchers examine welfare reform’s effect on the very poor, calculate the effects of math anxiety, algorithmically predict faculty tenure decisions, and discover one of the smallest dinosaurs that ever lived.

UChicago researchers study evolution after mass extinctions, weigh whether taste or calories make food more appealing, make the first planetary discovery attributed to NASA's Spritzer Space Telescope, solve a problem of the Nth degree, and show that a sports-based program can reduce violent crime.

UChicago researchers see through the racial veil, find thinking in a foreign language leads to more rational decision making, move toward a universal flu vaccine, and determine that ninth-grade performance affects the graduation rate of nonnative English speakers.

Chicago researchers use a galactic zoom lens, examine how European Jews resisted genocide, quantify what doctors ask patients about sex, and reconsider the moon’s origin.

Chicago researchers find empathy in rats, the positive effect of negative criticism, the cancer risk of a big belly, and the importance of language to young children’s identity.

Difficulty equals quality, an earthquake creates icebergs, the treatment of Medicare and Medicaid patients, how mothers' job losses affect children, and penguins' essential sense of smell.

Undocumented college graduates, growing limbs from fish DNA, the American flag's effect on votes, and alcohol's stress content.