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An image recorded with the birefringence OpenPolScope displaying the retardance (brightness) and slow axis orientation (hue) of a 300 nm thick layer of calcite crystals. Courtesy Rudolf Oldenbourg.

Getting Light to Give Up its Secrets

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Humans don’t often think about the polarization of light, maybe because our eyes aren’t set up to detect it. But ignoring polarization would be a mistake

Nanotubes.

How Hydrated Excess Protons Make Their Escape

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

New computational chemistry research finds that protons can actually create their own “water wire” to leap from water molecule to water molecule.

Alyssa Goodman. Photo by Benjamin Recchie, RCC.

Paper and Glue, Pixels and Ink

Friday, December 19, 2014

The scientific paper of the future isn't paper at all.

UChicago researchers are using high-performance computing to make an impact in patients' everyday lives. Courtesy of the Computation Institute.

Virtual Evaluation: Modeling the Ripples of Health Care Information

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Using RCC's high-performance computers, researchers at the Computation Institute and University of Chicago Medicine & Biological Sciences are creating a new tool for assessing health care innovations and policies.

A recent study investigated the complex interplay between the teeming communities of microbes that are unique to each person and the bacteria found in their homes.

Individual's Unique Microbial "Fingerprint" Drastically Affects Home Environment

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Mounting evidence suggests that microscopic, teeming communities of microbes play a role in human health and disease treatment and transmission.

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