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Power Theory

Machines are changing how engineers think about materials. Using powerful computation, Chris Wolverton, the Jerome B. Cohen Professor at the McCormick School of Engineering, can achieve in hours or...
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Ancient Analogs

Shells — even those some 66 million years old — can tell us a lot about climate change, says Ben Linzmeier.
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Uncovering a Hidden Picasso

It’s a Friday morning in the painting conservation offices at the Art Institute of Chicago. I’m ushered through security and brought to a staging room. It’s cavernous. I tilt my head up: Towering...
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The Magic of Magnets

As a young girl I could spend hours playing with my parents’ refrigerator magnets. I used to pretend that one magnet was a magic wand that was causing the other to move back and forth and rotate...
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A Mobile Future

On stage at the Steppenwolf’s Garage Theatre in 2016, actor and director Michael Patrick Thornton stood ready to play the part of Richard III, the crowned King of England often referred to as the “...
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2018 Northwestern Scientific Images Contest Winners

The 2018 winners of the Northwestern Scientific Images Contest represent advances across a wide range of disciplines including medicine, chemistry, engineering, physics and astronomy. This gallery...
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Ending an Epidemic

In the time it takes to read this paragraph, another American will be diagnosed with one of the nation’s most burdensome diseases. Every 15 to 20 seconds — or 5,200 times a day — an adult joins 30...
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Topics

Space to Experiment
By: Lauren Robinson
Jun 3, 2019
Scientists at Northwestern University are taking their flourishing freeze-casting research, which... Read More
A New Kind of Ice Age
By: Allessandra DiCorato
Aug 2, 2018
Ice often evokes images of cold drinks on a summer’s day, icicles dripping off a roof in winter, or... Read More
Image of sperm and egg
Not All Germ Cells Are Bad: Some Need to Grow for Us to Grow
By: Nisan Hubbard
Jul 9, 2018
Do you remember sex education and how awkward it was? Almost everyone had some form of sex... Read More
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Blog

A Colorful Job
By: Rebecca Harmon
Apr 25, 2019
As I stand in an emerald green room beneath a windmill in Zaanse Schans, Netherlands, wearing a canvas smock... Read More
Solar Cells of the Future: Inexpensive, Efficient Perovskites Gain Momentum
By: Julianne Beck
Jan 11, 2019
A new era of growth in the field of perovskite solar cells began this month, with the publication of a paper... Read More
The Mechanical Design and Control of Lower Limb Prosthetics
By: Bobby Bobbitt
Nov 5, 2018
Max Shepherd is a PhD candidate in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the McCormick School of... Read More
The Good, The Bad, The Plastics
By: Jennifer DiStefano, Nathan Bradshaw
Aug 6, 2018
It’s virtually impossible to read this blog without the aid of plastics. Our phones, our computers, our... Read More
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