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 apocalypse.. Every year, the Bulletin determines how much metaphorical time we have to avert catastrophe for humankind.Over the past 75 years, the hands of the clock have moved …

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, which assumes that most people have well-defined preferences and make well-informed, self-interested decisions based on those preferences.

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 world prehistory possible by contributing a time scale that transcends local, regional and continental boundaries.”. Carbon-14 dating has, for example, helped established how the …

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 Ukraine “the end of Russia as we know it.” Since then, Sonin, a Russian exile and frequent critic of Putin’s regime, has shared his expertise on Russia and autocracy publicly—which led to …

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 longtime director of the UChicago Sleep Laboratory. Rechtschaffen was driven by a desire to understand why we sleep. All mammals, birds and reptiles sleep in some form or another, 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 conditions nurtured the first life forms. Several seminal experiments in this topic have been conducted at the University of Chicago, including the Miller-Urey experiment that suggested …

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 would typically perform outdoors to the general public. Like modern improv, there was no script.

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 what exactly is death and how do we know when it’s happened.

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 lines between the insured and uninsured no longer make sense.

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 massive quantum campus to be built at the former U.S. Steel South Works plant on Chicago’s South Side, the company announced July 25.. PsiQuantum is aiming to build the first U.S. …