The first study of physician religious beliefs has found that 76 percent of doctors believe in God and 59 percent believe in some sort of afterlife. The survey, performed by researchers at the ...

Above is a sample of three sling bullets made of clay and found in the collapsed, burnt buildings at the Hamoukar site in Syria. New details about the tragic end of one of the world’s earliest cities, ...

In a “friend-of-the-court” brief filed in the U.S. Supreme Court Friday, Oct. 3, Geoffrey Stone wrote, “History teaches that, in time of war, we have often sacrificed fundamental freedoms ...

Twelve distinguished scholars have received faculty appointments at the University this year and have joined their new Chicago colleagues in the Biological Sciences Division, the Division of the ...

This artifact, the Lady’s Head from Warka (ancient Uruk), is made of marble and dates to 3000 B.C. It was stolen from the Iraqi National Museum in April 2003 and recovered in September. This modern ...

Instructors in the University’s Little Red Schoolhouse writing program gather for a photo in their new teaching space in Stuart Hall. They are (left to right) Mark Luce, Cecelia Watson, Annal Frenz, ...

Jay Berwanger, football star at the University and first winner of the Heisman Trophy, died Wednesday, June 26, of lung cancer. He was 88 years old. To football aficionados, Berwanger is well known as ...

Persistence pays, contends economist James Heckman, as do other non-cognitive skills—for both the individual and society. Like persistence, dependability and other under-studied traits probably play ...

Stephen Harvey pauses for a photo during one of his trips to Abydos. A watercolor rendition of a fragment of limestone, which shows a band of sky with stars, was found at the top of a wall from the ...

Americans are particularly challenged in their ability to understand someone else’s point of view because they are part of a culture that encourages individualism, new research in psychology shows. In ...

For a new graduate student in mathematics, the easy part is mastering equivariant K-theory or the geometry of quiver varieties. But navigating the transition from learning to doing research is another ...

To hear about Harr's notoriously meticulous research process, his thoughts on the future of narrative nonfiction and how Sherlock Holmes and a fifth-grade teacher at Hyde Park’s Bret Harte School ...