For three decades now, I have watched Earth warm—not through headlines or politics, but in my own data. Every year, the ...

In 1916, a Polish scientist discovered how to create a mono-crystal, which later became the basis for integrated circuits and semiconductors.

When you hear the term computer simulation, the first thing that pops into your mind is the bright, colorful graphics that ...

So, "settled science" does not mean we know something with absolute certainty, but that the weight of evidence is heavily in ...

“AI in distribution is like sex in high school: everyone’s talking about it, hardly anyone is doing it, and those who are… aren’t doing it well.” A room of distribution leaders laughed at a vendor’s ...

One of the things I love most about science is that sometimes it gets things wrong. In other disciplines, errors are fatal; chefs don’t benefit from poisoning their patrons. But scientists learn early ...

The environmental risk assessment community currently faces an existential dilemma. Policy mandates increasingly encourage transformation of the traditional risk assessment paradigm: a shift away from ...

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series called UChicago Class Visits, spotlighting transformative classroom experiences and unique learning opportunities offered at UChicago. A career advancement ...

What is a good life, and how can we create it? Forty-plus years of research has pointed to two answers. The first says that a good life is a happy life, one created by pursuing comfort, satisfaction ...

In today’s polarized digital landscape, disagreement often leads to division rather than dialogue. But what if scientific thinking could help us navigate online noise, challenge our assumptions, and ...

1 Department of Plant Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States 2 Department of Animal Science, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States Technological advances ...