Priscilla Diane Chapman Frisch, a University of Chicago Research Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics and a world-leading ...

July 14-16 gathering to create recommendations for policymakers and leaders to reduce the threat of nuclear war ...

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University of Chicago rising fourth-years Annie Yang and Seri Welsh have been recognized by the Udall Foundation for their ...

On June 11, the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine announced the result of a three-year study to set a ...

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Radiocarbon dating, or carbon-14 dating, is a scientific method that can accurately determine the age of organic materials as old as approximately 60,000 years. First developed in the late 1940s at ...