A mixture of theory and practice helps statistician Rina Foygel Barber, SM’09, PhD’12, optimize her results.

Professor Wendy Freedman applies astrophysics expertise to the Latke-Hamantash Debate.

Updates from the Division of the Physical Sciences.

Note from the dean.

New computer science chair Michael Franklin discusses the past, present, and future of computation.

The Physics Research Center will unite theorists and experimentalists for the first time in half a century.

Former Argonne director; UChicago VP of research, trustee, and now representative on the Giant Magellan Telescope board; physicist; and retiring art school president Walter E. Massey enters a new phase.

How an automated loom inspired the earliest computer inventors.

Jonathan Simon blurs the line between matter and light.

Astronomers and planetary scientists debate if and when we’ll find extraterrestrial life.

Planetary scientists fact-check The Martian.