2024年1月23日 · The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced on Jan. 23 that the hands of the Doomsday Clock will remain at 90 seconds to midnight—the closest it has ever been to …

Behavioral economics combines elements of economics and psychology to understand how and why people behave the way they do in the real world. It differs from neoclassical economics, …

Prominent archaeologist Frederick Johnson said that carbon-14 dating had the impact of an “atomic bomb” on archaeology. In 1997, anthropologist R.E. Taylor said that “14C data made a …

2025年1月2日 · When Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a “special military operation” on Feb. 24, 2022, University of Chicago Prof. Konstantin Sonin called the full-scale invasion of …

Why do we sleep? Sleep is literally critical to our survival. We know this thanks to the groundbreaking work of UChicago Prof. Allan Rechtschaffen, a sleep research pioneer and …

2022年9月19日 · The origin of life on Earth stands as one of the great mysteries of science. To find out if we are alone in the galaxy, we will need to better understand what geochemical …

Commedia dell’arte, or “comedy of professional artists,” was a form of highly physical, improvised theater that flourished in the 1500s during the Italian Renaissance.. Troupes of traveling actors …

2024年12月5日 · Paul Rand: It’s an experience every one of us is guaranteed to go through in our lives. It’s inescapable, and so we often don’t question it, we just accept it without wondering …

In this episode of “COVID 2025: Our World in the Next 5 Years,” Baicker discusses how the pandemic has shown the interconnectedness of the U.S. population—and that old dividing …

2024年7月25日 · Palo Alto-based startup PsiQuantum is coming to Chicago to build and operate quantum computers—bringing as many as 150 jobs in the next five years and anchoring a …