University of Chicago writer Rachel Cohen has received the Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin. The Prize is ...

The modern Western-style diet—high in processed foods, red meat, dairy products, and sugar—alters the composition of the gut microbiome in ways that can have a huge impact on health. This dietary ...

Aspiring lawyer Samantha Taylor lives her life fighting for the causes she’s passionate about. “If I’m presented with an opportunity but find that it challenges my principles or the type of impact ...

A mouse runs through a maze it’s explored a dozen times. But inside its brain, the map is never quite the same. New research from the University of Chicago is shedding light on how the mind ...

Part of the Las Campanas Observatory, in the mountains near the Atacama Desert in Chile. UChicago astronomy and astrophysics ...

During infections, the immune system needs to distinguish foreign molecules from invading bacteria and viruses from molecules that are made by cells of the body. If it can’t, the immune system can ...