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Research Spotlight
Assistant Professor Clara Blättler holding a vial of seawater dating from the last ice age.
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Bowen studies the climate of early Mars and rocky exoplanets.
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Edwin Kite is a planetary scientist interested in Mars and rocky exoplanets.
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AI Revolutionizes Weather Prediction To Help Farmers In India
September 24, 2025
Co-developed by UChicago’s Pedram Hassanzadeh, an artificial intelligence-based weather model delivered a timely prediction of a stalled monsoon this season, helping farmers decide when to plant their crops.
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Prof. Tiffany Shaw quoted in “How Climate Scientists Saw the Future Before It Arrived”
September 22, 2025
“We were essentially predicting worlds we couldn’t see for a very long time,” said Tiffany Shaw(opens a new tab), a climate dynamicist and geophysicist at the University of Chicago. Watching the ramifications of climate change play out in the real world has both validated the models and highlighted their shortcomings. Now, modelers are exploring new approaches that could usher in the next generation of fine-grained models that make better regional predictions. -
Life On Mars: Is It Possible For Humans?
September 22, 2025
Prof. Edwin Kite talks about the possibility of terraforming Mars for human habitability on UChicago’s Big Brain’s podcast.
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Levitating Disks Could Open A New Window Into The Earth’s Upper Atmosphere
September 22, 2025
A new study from researchers including Prof. David Keith proposes a novel way to reach unexplored, near-space zone: Lightweight flying structures that use sunlight to levitate.