Science & Medicine

05.19.2014

A sample of Voyager’s Golden Record.

May–June/14

Autism shows a correlation to environmental toxins, the adipose fin may not be so vestigial after all, economists revisit the effects of an early-childhood program 49 years later, and an ancient weather report gets a new translation.

May–June/14

Turned back toward Earth, a new telescope in space will search for the origin of high-energy cosmic rays.

May–June/14

Two UChicagoans bring diversity to science and engineering, with the help of a bright green truck.

May–June/14

In mathematics and running, fourth-year Sarah Peluse puts up impressive numbers.

May–June/14

The Center for Care and Discovery and its state-of-the-art stats.

May–June/14

UChicago neuroscientists study how “little bubbles” produced by the body’s cells could treat MS.

May–June/14

Scientists find signs of gravity waves that sparked the newborn universe’s growth spurt.

04.28.2014

Talking reproduction with Robert Martin.

04.22.2014

A photographic tour through Paul Sereno’s Fossil Lab.

03.31.2014

From African plant to Uncle Bubba’s candy.
Summer/75

From our print archive: Gamesmanship and America’s first Nobel Prize scientist, Albert Abraham Michelson.