Research

Containing more than 850 species, fig trees are one of the most diverse groups of plants in the world. To unravel how this plant genus (Ficus in the Moraceae family) evolved to become such a diverse group, an international team of...

Close to a thousand scientists from around the world who study embryonic development will gather in Chicago for the 82nd annual meeting of the Society for Developmental Biology (SDB) from July 20-23, 2023.  At the meeting, Northwestern Professor Carole LaBonne,...

Northwestern University astrophysicists are part of an international team of scientists using advanced simulation tools that has predicted the existence of merging massive, 30 solar mass black hole binaries in Milky Way-like galaxies, challenging previous theories. The team, which includes Northwestern’s Vicky...

Mercouri Kanatzidis, inorganic chemist at Northwestern University, has received an unusual honor: a new mineral discovered in Hungary has been named after him, the International Mineralogical Society (IMA) announced recently. The mineral, a chalcogenide, is called kanatzidisite in recognition of Kanatzidis’...

While searching for the origins of a powerful gamma-ray burst (GRB), an international team of astrophysicists may have stumbled upon a new way to destroy a star. Although most GRBs originate from exploding massive stars or neutron-star mergers, the researchers concluded...

In a new Northwestern University-led study, astrophysicists crunched 12.5 years of data from 45 dead stars (called pulsars) to set the best limits yet on the gravitational wave signatures emitted from pairs of monster black holes. Knowing these limits will...

Some of Northwestern University’s brightest minds in biomedical science converged before a packed auditorium yesterday to discuss the hottest topics in their fields. Hosted by Provost Kathleen Hagerty, “The New Frontiers of Biomedical Science and Biomedical Engineering” panel explored wide-ranging matters...

An international team of astrophysicists has discovered something wholly new, hidden in the center of the Milky Way galaxy. In the early 1980s, Northwestern University’s Farhad Yusef-Zadeh discovered gigantic, one-dimensional filaments dangling vertically near Sagittarius A*, our galaxy’s central supermassive black hole. Now,...

Political scientists from Northwestern University, University of Virginia and Vanderbilt University have analyzed more than 40 years of congressional data to determine whether effective legislators more frequently adopt a bipartisan or partisan approach to reaching their policy goals. The researchers found...

A report by Northwestern researchers at CORNERS (The Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research and Science) assesses the impact of one such strategy — a pilot community policing initiative adopted in 2019 by the Chicago Police Department in partnership with the Policing Project at...