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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.

  • 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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