Science

How do we honor Stephen Hawking?

On Earth Day 2017, Chicago joined several cities throughout the country in making their voices heard in support of science and reason in the Trump era.

How the science community is using social media — and politics — to push back against Trump.

Gentrification in Logan Square; a discovery in the behavior of Stone Age hominins; former alt-right media executive appointed to National Security Council.

Lions protest railway construction in Kenya; furniture store burns down in Logan Square; protests in Charlotte end; Northwestern prints 3-D bones.

Life's oldest ancestor; problems plaguing the Olympics; and a controversial speaker silenced at DePaul

Kayla Lewis explores the poetics of chemical reactions

“I think that’s the positive part of the privatization of space exploration,” Walczak explains. “You get rich people to do it first because they have the ability and then it trickles down where it becomes cheaper and there’s more technology out there and new ways of seeing things.”

David Gondek and the art of artificial intelligence.

Artist Jessica Lloyd-Jones reassesses the boundaries between art and science.

SAIC professor Kathryn Schaffer and the discussion’s panelists rally for the aesthetic value of science