Private research university in Chicago, Illinois, noted for strength in physics, astrophysics, and economics, and for its many Nobel laureates.
University of Chicago researchers used cryo-EM to capture large serine integrases at several stages of inserting and removing phage DNA. The Molecular Cell paper shows how a partner protein flips the enzyme from one job to the other.
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Mark Levin's group at the University of Chicago used blue light and oxygen to swap a ring carbon for nitrogen in dozens of compounds, Science reports. Whether that widens how drug candidates are modified rests on property data for one compound.
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Megacauda sungei, a mammaliaform from Jurassic China, pushes the bony anatomy of mammal suckling back to nearly 165 million years ago, a Nature study reports. The structures place the groundwork for a defining mammal trait well before the first modern mammals.
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Megatron simulations suggest the region that became a Milky Way-like galaxy held thousands of small merging galaxies in the universe's first 2 billion years. Its galaxies come with predicted spectra that can be checked directly against James Webb Space Telescope data.
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Researchers describing Megacauda sungei in Nature say the half-metre Jurassic swimmer had a throat built for suckling 165 million years ago. That puts the anatomy for milk-feeding earlier than the last common ancestor of all living mammals.
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University of Chicago researchers report Webb evidence of an atmosphere on HD 3167 b, a rocky planet with a 24-hour orbit. Planets that close to a star are expected to lose gas to stellar wind and high-energy light, so the result could help explain how rocky worlds keep their atmospheres.
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Harley Katz's team at the University of Chicago ran three years of simulations showing the Milky Way assembling from thousands of smaller galaxies. Published across six papers, the models can now be checked against what Webb actually records.
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A team including University of Chicago neuroscientists recorded source, sink and spiral waves of neural activity, and linked different tasks to distinct patterns. The link is an association, so it shows the waves track what the brain is doing and leaves open whether they help direct it.
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University of Bath-led MEGATRON team published four papers arguing early-universe models must track starlight, gas and new elements together. Their simulations suggest simpler models understate how stellar radiation and chemistry shape the gas around young galaxies.
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Physicists at Stanford, the University of Chicago and SLAC let one superconducting qubit address seven memory cells, at about 1.2% error per access. The tests measured access error, much of it from crosstalk between cells, so the promised cut in wiring per qubit is still a design argument.
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University of Chicago astronomers report that HD 3167 b, a super-Earth with a one-day orbit, has a dayside cooler than bare rock should allow. That makes it the coolest atmosphere case so far for a ten-planet program looking for the temperature at which lava worlds start to keep their atmospheres.
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Four studies by Fan Yang and Yilin Liu, published in Psychological Science, find that whether a creation is kept or destroyed changes what children and adults will do to make it, and that fun only partly makes up the difference.
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In 79 US toddlers surveyed three times, words that parents said their child mostly overheard from adult conversation were recognised at 24 and 30 months but not at 18. Every measure came from the parents.
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The Climate Impact Lab ran a European seasonal temperature outlook through local mortality curves fitted for 24,000 regions, and the authors want health ministries to treat the result as a schedule for moving staff, water and cooling.
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Aquarius IV is one of the faintest Milky Way satellites ever recorded, pulled out of Vera C. Rubin Observatory test data taken before the main survey began. The research note has not been peer reviewed.
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Physicists at the City College of New York drove magnons in CrSBr with microwaves and read the signal out on reflected laser light, a conversion mechanism that still needs large efficiency gains before it can move quantum states.
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The Drexel lab that made the first MXenes in 2011 has grown them by chemical vapor deposition, with Penn and Murata Manufacturing as collaborators, skipping the MAX-phase precursor and the acid bath that has limited their use.
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David Booth told The Daily Upside that neither mutual funds nor ETFs are inherently superior, and the work that made his $1.1 trillion firm a top active ETF manager was a regulatory petition plus a run of fund conversions.
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Two detection chief executives describe their own products as probabilities rather than verdicts. That is the constraint to design around before a score is allowed to fail a student or close an account.
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Over a quarter of Americans eat most of their meals alone, and 52% now say they would rather order their own dish. That shift is why the personalization Domino's, Wonder and DoorDash are building reprices portioning and the cost to serve a party.
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