The Newberry Library's “Chicago Style: Mike Royko and Windy City Journalism,” co-curated by Northwestern's Bill Savage, takes visitors back to the reign of the legendary columnist and newspaper culture. Photo by Teresa Nowakowski

Chronicling Chicago, one column at a time

Co-curated by Northwestern’s Bill Savage, new exhibit pays tribute to legendary columnist Mike Royko and the heyday of print

Over a career spanning three decades, Mike Royko penned over 7,500 columns for Chicagoans, and, later, a national audience. He won


A team including Northwestern researchers has proposed a revolutionary approach toward terraforming Mars using engineered dust particles. Image by NASA/JPL/MSSS

How we could warm Mars

A new idea among a rich history of proposals to make the surface of the cold planet habitable

Ever since learning the surface of the planet Mars is cold and dead, scientists have wondered if there was a way to