New strategy could maintain communications in a constantly changing network While entangled photons hold incredible promise for quantum computing and communications, they have a major inherent disadvantage. After one use, they simply disappear. But in a new study published in Physical Review Letters, Northwestern...
For the first time, astronomers have traced a fast radio burst (FRB) to the outskirts of an ancient, dead, elliptical galaxy — an unprecedented home for a phenomenon previously associated with much younger galaxies. CHIME telescopes (shown here in featured image)...
Throughout his 50-year career, Charles Manski has had a broad taste in research, publishing work for both academic and mainstream audiences on a wide range of policy topics including financial aid for college students, pandemic response, clinical medicine and climate policy. In his...
Northwestern researchers leverage industrial waste to store energy The batteries used in our phones, devices and even cars rely on metals like lithium and cobalt, sourced through intensive and invasive mining. As more products begin to depend on battery-based energy storage...
Sociology professor and Institute for Policy Research (IPR) Director Andrew Papachristos discusses his team's work to help reduce gun violence. Papachristos is also the founder and faculty director of the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research and Science (CORNERS), a research...
Nobel laureate Sir Fraser Stoddart, a Board of Trustees Professor at Northwestern University, died Dec. 30. He was 82. Stoddart, a pioneer in the fields of nanoscience and organic chemistry, was an outsized figure on the Evanston campus and on campuses...
