University of Chicago Archives

Blue crystals in meteorites show that sun behaved like ‘high-energy toddler’

Our sun’s beginnings are a mystery. It burst into being 4.6 billion years ago, about … more

Chemists and engineers today are very interested in a kind of nanotechnology enabled by tiny … more

Genetic variants associated with enjoying the effects of d-amphetamine—the active ingredient in Adderall—are also associated … more

Here’s another reason you might want to make sure you sleep well. Researchers from the … more

A husband’s agreeable personality and good health appear crucial to preventing conflict among older couples … more

Once again, computer screensavers have flexed their muscles and solved a great mystery of biology. … more

Female swallowtail butterflies in the genus Papilio are known for sexual dimorphism, traits that make … more

Though present in more than 6,000 living species of fish, the adipose fin, a small … more

Scientists may be close to unraveling one of the longest-standing questions in evolutionary biology — … more

Weather forecasters on exoplanet GJ 1214b would have an easy job. Today’s forecast: cloudy. Tomorrow: … more

More than 1 in 10 Americans take antidepressants, but these medications can take weeks—and for … more