As extremist rhetoric and violence in America increases, journalists have continually turned to Kathleen Belew, an Associate Professor of history at Northwestern, who has studied and written extensively on this threat to democracy.
She spent ten years researching and …
Neuroscientists from Northwestern University and clinicians from the University of Chicago Epilepsy Center recently published a study that explored the relationship between memory and sleep.
Researchers studied brain electrical activity in five of the center’s patients in response to …
Historian Deborah Cohen’s book Last Call at the Hotel Imperial has been chosen as one of The New Yorker’s best books of 2022. The book explores the lives of four journalists who reported from Europe and Asia during the …
Northwestern researchers recently discovered that colloidal crystals, three-dimensional arrays of nanoparticles, can revert to their original structure after breaking apart.
In the study, scientists dehydrated the strands of DNA, causing them to crumple, but quickly regained their previous shape when …
Last week, a team of Northwestern researchers assisted in recording the brightest gamma-ray burst ever recorded.
The discovery was part of an international effort to document an explosion nearly 2.4 billion light years away from Earth. The team of astrophysicists …
Professor Chad Mirkin received the 2022 Faraday Medal from The United Kingdom Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). According to the IET’s official statement, Mirkin was honored “for inventing and developing many of the tools, techniques, and materials that have …
A new study revealed that depolarization initiatives do not affect anti-democratic attitudes. The Strengthening Democracy Project, a team of social scientists from Northwestern and three other universities, surveyed 8,000 partisans who were randomly assigned to interventions designed to reduce affective …
Anna Grassellino, a senior scientist at Fermilab and adjunct professor of physics and astronomy in Northwestern’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences was recently awarded the 2023 New Horizons in Physics Prize from the Breakthrough Prize Foundation.
According to …
Adilson Motter, the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Physics and Astronomy, was awarded the Senior Scientific Award from the Complex Systems Society (CSS).
Since 2004, CSS has worked to advance complex systems research pure and applied, …
As of Oct. 3, the Supreme Court is back in session with a new slate of highly consequential cases on its docket. To better understand what is at stake, Northwestern Now spoke with faculty to learn what cases they are …