In a new study, Northwestern Earth scientists Daniel Horton and Anastasia Montgomery developed a high-resolution simulation of air pollution for the southern Lake Michigan region. This simulation is the first to create neighborhood-scale estimates of air quality over Chicago by …
Remedies to the global water crisis are emerging through CoWERC, a global collaboration co-founded by scientists at Northwestern’s Center for Water Research and in Israel, a nation long at the forefront of water innovation.
CoWERC — the U.S.-Israel Collaborative Water-Energy …
When physicists steered a tiny microparticle toward a cylindrical obstacle, they expected one of two outcomes to occur. The particle would either collide into the obstacle or sail around it. The particle, however, did neither.
The researcher team — led …
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) has selected Northwestern University to co-lead its new biomedical research hub in Chicago, which will develop new technologies for studying human tissues with unprecedented resolution. The hub’s ultimate goal is to unite the region’s best …
Northwestern played a crucial role in the historic detection of gravitational waves, which were first predicted by Albert Einstein in 1916. On September 14, 2015, a team of more than 1,000 scientists and engineers from around the world detected these …
A recent national survey conducted by the COVID States Project, a collaborative research effort including Northwestern, Harvard, Northeastern, and Rutgers universities, revealed that only 8% of nearly 25,000 Americans surveyed were able to correctly identify all false political claims presented …
The American Physical Society (APS) announced a new measurement of the electron’s magnetism – a discovery made by the Gabrielse Group in Northwestern’s Center for Fundamental Physics (CFP).
The CFP specialize in tabletop experiments that “investigate the particles, interactions, and …
Chemists from Northwestern University have developed a new photonic lattice with properties never before observed in nature. Solid materials require atoms to be spaced equally and close enough together to interact effectively, but the new architectures based on stacked lattices …
Northwestern University scientists have teamed up to create an affordable, easy-to-use, and reliable test for determining dangerous levels of fluoride in water. The new biosensor device, which was tested in rural Kenya, demonstrates that water testing for fluoride can be …
Astrophysicist Jason Wang of Northwestern University has unveiled a new time-lapse video of the HR8799 planetary system. The first extrasolar planetary system to be directly imaged in 2008, HR8799 boasts four Jupiter-sized planets that orbit its star.
“It’s usually difficult …