From coffee and green tea to bananas and pecans, new research on everyday ingredients revealed surprising connections between what we eat and how our bodies function. Stacey Leasca is an award-winning ...

Researchers across the globe put on their sleuthing hats this year to provide answers to questions that have lingered from decades to centuries. The thought-provoking findings offer new ways of ...

Looking back at the past year, 2025 was marked by discovery and transformation at the University of Chicago. Faculty, students, staff, and alumni celebrated awards and recognition; launched new ...

All year long, these moments captivated the public, demonstrated dangerous trends, and pushed research and innovation forward In 2025, researchers watched an interstellar comet, learned about human ...

Immense progress in gene editing, drug discovery and conservation are just some of the reasons to be cheerful about 2025. But, there were also plenty of positive developments in 2025 that offer hope ...

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Earth’s oceans reached their highest heat levels on record in 2025, absorbing vast amounts of excess energy from the atmosphere. This steady buildup has accelerated since the 1990s and is now driving ...

Mathematician Maggie Miller explores the strange and fascinating world of 4D topology — the study of shapes, or manifolds, that resemble flat Euclidean space when viewed up close.

Climate change worsened by human behavior made 2025 one of the three hottest years on record, scientists said. It was also the first time that the three-year temperature average broke through the ...

The biggest science story this year was the political upheaval in the United States. Funding cuts, academic lay-offs and vaccine-sceptic policies have widely been seen as an attack on science, ...