Although science often advances through tried-and-tested methods, sometimes scientists have to find creative ways to test ...

Editor’s note: This is part of a series called “The Day Tomorrow Began,” which explores the history of breakthroughs at UChicago. Learn more here. A field experiment is a research method that uses ...

The experiments conducted on the International Space Station by Shubhanshu Shukla will benefit all humans on the planet.

Could we be trapped inside a simulated reality, rather than the physical universe we usually assume? It’s a tantalizing theory, long theorized by philosophers and popularized by the 1999 blockbuster ...