Joel Mokyr wins Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
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By 15 Months, Infants Begin to Learn New Words for Objects — Even If They’ve Never Seen Them
Human language allows us to learn new words for things we’ve never witnessed directly. We do this seamlessly, for example, in conversations, using clues from the overall context to infer a new word’s meaning. But how early does this ability become...
Mining the Stories of Our Past To Examine Antisemitism Today
Northwestern’s Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies was tapped to program a series of nine CityTalk conversations designed to explore the themes of history, identity and survival in Joshua Harmon’s 2022 award-winning play “Prayer for the French Republic.” Fresh off a Broadway...
Watch an Atomic-Scale Catalytic Event In Real Time
A Northwestern University-led international team of scientists has, for the first time, directly observed catalysis in-action at the atomic level. In mesmerizing new videos, single atoms move and shake during a chemical reaction that removes hydrogen atoms from an alcohol molecule....
ALS drug effectively treats Alzheimer’s disease in new animal study
Experimental drug NU-9 — a small molecule compound approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for clinical trials for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) — improves neuron health in animal models of Alzheimer’s disease, according to...
New Function Discovered For Protein Important In Leukemia
Researchers from Northwestern University have stumbled upon a previously unobserved function of a protein found in the cell nuclei of all flora and fauna. In addition to exporting materials out of the nucleus, the protein, called Exportin-1 (also called Xpo1...
Who Is Persuasive? Study Finds the Power of Ordinary People
Trying to persuade people with different political views can be fatiguing and frustrating, but it’s not as pointless as we might think. New research shows that even on divisive issues, far more persuasion attempts succeeded than backfired. A new study led...
New Study Highlights Disparities In Traffic-Related Air Pollution Exposure And Challenges In Urban Emissions Modeling
Life is a highway, but what are the emissions along it? It turns out, that answer could change depending on which dataset one uses. A new study led by Victoria Lang, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary...
Adopting Zero-Emission Trucks and Buses Could Save Lives, Prevent Asthma in Illinois
Guided by the lived experiences of community partners, Northwestern University scientists have simulated the effects of zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) adoption on future air quality for the greater Chicago area. The results were published today in the journal Frontiers of Earth Science. Motivated by California’s...
City Leaders Speak Out Against Nuclear Weapons
Several elected U.S. city officials, including Chicago Alderwoman Maria Hadden, recently joined international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to speak out about the dangers of nuclear war at the third Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear...
First Radio Pulses Traced to Dead-Star Binary
An international team of astronomers, including a Northwestern University astrophysicist, has traced a series of mysterious radio pulses to an unprecedented home. Starting a decade ago, astronomers have detected a pulse of radio emission every two hours, coming from the direction...
