Using the world as a lab, UChicago economists pioneered the use of field experiments in their groundbreaking research.| University of Chicago News
Immunotherapies, which use the body’s own defense system to shut down cancer, have emerged as a promising new treatment in the past decade.| University of Chicago News
First developed in the late 1940s at UChicago, carbon dating can determine the age of organic materials as old as 60,000 years.| University of Chicago News
Trillions upon trillions of cosmic rays hit the Earth every day. What are they?| University of Chicago News
Social work is a field of study and profession aimed at addressing problems in society—from educational inequality to health disparities to child and family welfare.| University of Chicago News
The quantum internet is a theorized network of interconnected quantum computers that will one day allow us to exchange and compute data using quantum technology.| University of Chicago News
Modern improv comedy began at the University of Chicago in the 1950s.| University of Chicago News
Why do we sleep? What happens to the brain during sleep? What is REM sleep? Explore these questions and learn about sleep's impact on your body and mind—and UChicago scientists' pioneering work on sleep research.| University of Chicago News
On Dec. 2, 1942, Manhattan Project scientists achieved the first sustained nuclear reaction created by humans in a squash court under the stands of Stagg Field.| University of Chicago News
Coined by University of Chicago astrophysicist Michael Turner in 1998, dark energy—the force causing the universe to expand faster over time—remains one of the great mysteries of physics.| University of Chicago News