It may seem like these are challenging times for leaders, scholars, and analysts devoted to evidence-based policy, but never has their work been more important.

Readers react to the Chicago Pile-1 experiment and its far-reaching legacy; debate deterrence and gerrymandering; correct the fossil record; and more.

Winter on ice, past and present.

A reflection on the nuclear scientists who gave Mao’s China the bomb.

The age of nuclear weapons has been remarkably peaceful, but danger is ever present.

Readers celebrate the legacy of Philip Gossett; advocate wetland restoration; correct a grotesque error; don’t want nobody nobody sent; and more.

Pritzker student Shirlene Obuobi takes a comic approach to medical school.

Meet some of the fantastic beasts UChicago faculty helped introduce to the scientific record and the popular imagination.

Two newly discovered species bring humans closer to understanding our lineage.

The subject of controversy when it was commissioned, Nuclear Energy has become a constant in the UChicago landscape.

The story of the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is one of science, of war, and of people—those who made the experiment a success, those who strove to inform the public about the threats the breakthrough posed, and those tending its ambivalent legacies today.

The scientists who made CP-1 possible, and the thinkers tending its ambivalent legacy today.