Research
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At the Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago’s David Gozal talks about sleep patterns from worms to humans
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Doctors at the University’s Celiac Disease Center raise awareness about a little-known condition.
With the new Institute for Molecular Engineering, the University fills a historical void and hopes to shape the scientific future.
For nearly a century, UChicago scientists have explored the deep universe of sleep.
An ambitious economic field experiment studies how financial incentives for students, teachers, and parents affect academic performance.
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Linking teacher merit pay to standardized-test scores compromises learning and creates incentives to cheat.
Psychologist Sian Beilock studies what makes people choke under pressure and offers techniques to prevent those mental meltdowns.
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Historian Fred Donner offers a new reading of an old story.
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Japan's claustrophobic commuter rail system operates with human and technological precision.
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Archaeologist Hannah Chazin searches for late Bronze Age artifacts in Armenia.
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Economist Bruce Meyer studies the myth of the middle-class squeeze.