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

Updates from the Physical Sciences Division.

A note from the dean of the Physical Sciences Division.

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 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.

Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard were comparable scientific visionaries but opposite personalities.

UChicago computer scientists created a computer program that can write fake restaurant reviews.

A new type of immunotherapy is helping UChicago Medicine patients. 

UChicago astronomers and astrophysicists brought family and friends to the path of totality to watch the solar eclipse on August 21.