New research from the Complexity Science Hub (CSH) shows why widely used algorithms for measuring economic complexity produce trustworthy results and how these tools may benefit diverse areas such as ...

When we think of powerful magnets used in particle accelerators or for NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance), we often envision bulky machines, sometimes the size of buildings. But in an extraordinary ...

Ka Yee C. Lee has been appointed dean of the University of Chicago’s Physical Sciences Division, President Paul Alivisatos and Provost Katherine Baicker announced. Her term began March 1. The David ...

A new three-volume study explores how quantum physics, gravitation and cosmology may be understood within a unified ...

Why does skydiving work and how do humans safely experience one of the most dramatic adventures in the sky? To better understand it, I jumped from a plane.

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(Linas Toleikis/iStock/Getty Images Plus) For more than a century, scientists have been trying to figure out how a falling cat lands on its feet with such astonishing regularity. A famous scientific ...

Benedetto Vigna worked on the Higgs boson, has 200 patents and explains why Jonny Ive and Marc Newson will deliver an ...

Dr Noelia Noël, Senior Lecturer in Astrophysics at the University of Surrey, has been awarded this year’s Leadership Fellowship in Public Engagement from the Science and Technology Facilities Council ...

A 2006 conference for physicists in the U.S. Virgin Islands that included a trip to Jeffrey Epstein's private island shows how he used his wealth to build relationships with prominent scientists.

A single UC campus is defying the systemwide enrollment slowdown. Officials chalk it up to expanded capacity and years of ...

And with such practice, honing this hidden sense may even become a superpower for humans. If people can pick up temperature from sound without realizing it, intentional training could enhance that ...