From our print archive: Although the eye is vision’s front door, the brain creates perception. Researchers want to reveal how the mind translates light into visual experience.

Retiring professor Michael LaBarbera’s Invertebrate Biology class concludes with a view of an “alien landscape.”

The president of the American College of Cardiology advocates a plant-based diet as part of shifting heart disease treatment from “event” to “prevent” focused.

Underappreciated—but, it turns out, important—the olfactory system issues an SOS.

UChicago astrophysicist Craig Hogan tests the digital nature of space.

Scientists have been at sea about how to extract uranium from the oceans, but a PhD student’s method shows promise.

Two decades of planning by the Fermi Institute’s Tom Economou culminate in a comet landing.

Art and science join forces to imagine the unknown.

Scientists turned to nature to solve a high-tech problem.

The Physical Sciences Division looks to the future.