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 …
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 …
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
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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
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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
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Just as some children physically resemble their parents, many scientists have long thought that developing planets should resemble the swirling disk of gas and dust that births them.
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It’s the perfect time of year to curl up under a blanket with a warm beverage and a great read.
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A new study by developmental scientists at Northwestern University provides new insight into a hallmark of human communication: our flexibility to use
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By studying prehistoric rocks and fossils emerging from the side of Mount Ashibetsu in Japan, researchers have precisely refined the timing and duration of
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In his photography, graduate student Imran Sultan must overcome several obstacles: subjects that only appear in the middle of the night, the obscuring haze of Chicago’s light pollution and distances that
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