University of Chicago News Research Space travel doesn’t affect the strength of heart muscle cells, study finds UChicago-led research on cells from mice that had been on the International Space Station for more than a month suggests astronaut hearts can withstand longer trips Researchers discover cleaner route to purifying rare earth elements With real artifacts, students piece together the ancient past Engineered gut bacteria show promise against pancreatic cancer IBM, UChicago demonstrate ‘quantum advantage,’ outperforming traditional computers with a quantum computer Q&A What to know about cyclospora, the parasite behind this summer’s outbreak Around UChicago Senior theses put UChicago students' economics training to work on messy reality Fourth-years in Undergraduate Honors Workshop build original research alongside Nobel laureates and other faculty advisers Meet A UChicagoan Anthropologist of the Caribbean emphasizes the power of ‘big small places’ UChicago’s Ryan Cecil Jobson talks fossil fuel extraction and following in the footsteps of Haitian scholar Michel-Rolph Trouillot In a quiet UChicago garden, volunteers cultivate food and community Student-run Phoenix Farms tends beehives, grows mushrooms and welcomes anyone on campus to lend a hand AI-powered robotic labs at UChicago, Argonne receive $20 million NSF grant PoLARIS Project will conduct experiments autonomously, allowing researchers to create novel materials from afar UChicago Prof. Yu Deng receives Fields Medal, highest honor in mathematics University mathematician recognized for addressing 125-year-old challenge to ground physics in mathematics