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Strange Quantum Phenomenon Achieved at Room Temperature in Semiconductor Wafers

November 23, 2015

Researchers use infrared laser light to order the magnetic states of thousands of electrons and nuclei and then electromagnet...

Laser-Wielding Physicists Seize Control of Atoms’ Behavior

October 7, 2015

Physicists have wondered in recent years if they could control how atoms interact using light. Now they know that they can.&n...

Shape-Shifting Molecule Tricks Viruses into Mutating Themselves to Death

April 16, 2015

A newly developed spectroscopy method is helping to clarify the poorly understood molecular process by which an anti-HIV drug...

Study Identifies Common Elements of STEM Schools

January 29, 2015

Science, technology, engineering and mathematics schools vary in many ways, but they share eight major common elements. So fi...

Exotic, Gigantic Molecules Fit Inside Each Other Like Russian Nesting Dolls

January 24, 2015

University of Chicago scientists have experimentally observed for the first time a phenomenon in ultracold, three-atom molecu...

UChicago to Offer New Undergraduate Minor in Molecular Engineering

December 16, 2013

The University of Chicago’s Institute for Molecular Engineering will offer its first undergraduate course in the autumn...

Institute for Molecular Engineering Doubles Size of Faculty with Innovative Researchers

November 22, 2013

The University of Chicago’s Institute for Molecular Engineering is adding four prominent senior faculty members who dev...

Invention Jet-prints Nanostructures with Self-assembling Material

September 23, 2013

A multi-institutional team of engineers has developed a new approach to the fabrication of nanostructures for the semiconduct...

Ultracold Big Bang Experiment Successfully Simulates Evolution of Early Universe

August 30, 2013

Physicists have reproduced a pattern resembling the cosmic microwave background radiation in a laboratory simulation of the B...

Cosmochemist Discovers Possible Solution to Meteorite Mystery

July 10, 2013

A normally staid University of Chicago scientist has stunned many of his colleagues with his radical solution to a 135-year-o...

Watery Research Theme to Flow Through New Tokmakoff lab

March 13, 2013

Once Andrei Tokmakoff gets his new laser laboratory operational later this year, he will use the world’s shortest infra...