Chile's oldest university and its public research flagship, spanning Atacama astronomy, Antarctic biology, seismic engineering and genomic medicine.
Developmental biologists in Santiago show that the furcula, the bird's wishbone, originally fused from three bones in dinosaur ancestors, settling a debate that has run since the seventeenth century.
A team including the Universidad de Chile's Guido Garay reports in Nature Astronomy how a pair of massive protostars assembled through a near-parabolic encounter, illuminating one of star formation's hardest problems.
Chemists at the Universidad de Chile map elevated lead, arsenic and zinc across the northern port city, tracing part of the contamination to mining waste shipped from Sweden in the 1980s.
A survey from the far north to Los Lagos finds planarian lineages that may be species new to science, including one thriving in the El Tatio geothermal field, with implications for regeneration research.
Modelling in PLOS ONE projects a reduction of more than 58 per cent in the potential range of two endemic intertidal kelps, with the steepest losses along the country's north and centre-north coasts.
A Science paper led from the Universidad de Chile recovers viral DNA from early colonial-era remains at Caleta Camarones, providing the first molecular evidence that smallpox arrived with European colonisation.
The Universidad de Chile's fifth nanosatellite rode a Falcon 9 from Vandenberg into a sun-synchronous orbit, condensing laser communications, space biology and more into a shoebox-sized laboratory.
Work in Communications Physics with the Universidad de Chile's Ignacio Bordeu shows that a simple change in how persistently cells move can explain how they sort themselves by type.
Researchers at the Universidad de Chile report in Cell Death Discovery that botulinum toxin type A disrupts the cell's recycling machinery in jaw muscle, and call for long-term public data on cumulative use.
Analysis in BMC Medicine finds the share of packaged products classified as high in critical nutrients fell from 70.8 to 52.5 per cent as industry reformulated through every phase of the pioneering law.
Physicists at the Universidad de Chile and partners show in Physical Review Materials that particle size by itself biases how frictional charge is distributed, with extremes that simple models miss.
The new CHAiR centre unites virology, pharmacology, clinical care and community work under one roof, with roughly 91,000 people estimated to be living with HIV in Chile and a third of diagnoses arriving late.
Gondwananectes osvaldoi, a marine reptile that swam a vanished sea near present-day Calama 170 million years ago, is described by the Universidad de Chile's palaeontological network in Papers in Palaeontology.
Botanists and regional naturalists name two Miersia and two Gilliesia species from central Chile in PhytoKeys; preliminary assessments rate one Critically Endangered and three Endangered.
A CIAE study in Reading and Writing identifies four reader profiles among Chilean primary pupils and finds motivation and skill pulling in unexpected directions, with 88 per cent showing some difficulty.
The Universidad de Chile's annual avian influenza campaign, run with the Chilean Antarctic Institute, departs with undergraduate students aboard to sample wildlife through the austral summer.
First recordings from the degu's superior colliculus, published in the Journal of Neurophysiology, show visual acuity above that of standard laboratory rodents, challenging the mouse's default status.
A four-month observational study by the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism finds 93.5 per cent of cyclists use a bike lane where one exists; where none does, over four in ten ride on the pavement.