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CHICAGO — The new Steve James documentary “A Compassionate Spy,” about the Manhattan Project physicist, Soviet spy and University of Chicago alum Theodore Hall, has been selected for the documentary slate of the 79th Venice Film Festival.

On a crisp autumn morning in 1908, an elegantly dressed African American man strode back and forth among the pin oaks, magnolias and silver maples of O’Fallon Park in St. Louis, Missouri. After placing a dozen dishes filled with strawberry jam atop several picnic tables, biologist Charles Henry Turner retreated…

The US constitution used to be considered a model for democracies around the world – but its antiquated institutions and absence of rights have guaranteed its declining influence

A statement from Cell Press quotes study co-author Bing Su as saying: “Ancient DNA technique is a really powerful tool.

A new study describes a new fish species that likely preceded the species that came on land.

Mark Anderson will oversee medical and biological research, education, care delivery and community engagement for UChicago Medicine, the Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine.

The teen was on the sidewalk in the 1000 block of East 73rd Street Monday evening when someone in a red sedan opened fire, striking him in the chest, armpit and left leg, police said.

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“The telescope works, and it works brilliantly. Our knowledge about the universe is about to take a giant leap forward,” said Jacob Bean, a University of Chicago astronomy professor.

CHICAGO — The Doomsday Clock was born in 1947 in Chicago, a Cold War baby delivered as the illustration for the first cover of a new magazine, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. It was set at 7 minutes to midnight, an indication of how close a team of revered…

CHICAGO — University of Chicago chancellor Robert Zimmer, a mathematician and longtime administrator at the school, is leaving his post to attend to his health, the university has announced.