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Love Data Week: NU Students Shine in Data Viz Championship

This Valentine's Day, show your love for data. Northwestern students, faculty, and staff participate in a week-long celebration of data storytelling, creativity, and innovation as part of the international Love Data Week event. The week celebrates data and aims to unite...

A diver in the Yucatan aquifer uses an air hose to empty and then flood a 1-liter bottle with a water sample. Photo by Natalie Gibb

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Behold the underwater caves of Yucatán, home to diverse microbial communities

New study constructs most extensive map yet of the cave system’s microbiome With help from an experienced underwater cave-diving team, Northwestern University researchers have constructed the most complete map to date of the microbial communities living in the submerged labyrinths beneath...

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Kimberly Marion Suiseeya pursues environmental justice by crafting relationships with interdisciplinary researchers and Indigenous intellectual leadership

Marrying localized data and community knowledge to solve global problems For someone interested in environmental policy and biodiversity conservation, Kimberly Marion Suiseeya was excited to work in Laos, the small landlocked country bordered by Thailand and Vietnam. Laos, after all, boasted a...

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Astrophysicist Wen-fai Fong will receive the 2024 Lancelot M. Berkeley–New York Community Trust Prize for Meritorious Work in Astronomy

Northwestern astrophysicist Wen-fai Fong will receive the 2024 Lancelot M. Berkeley–New York Community Trust Prize for Meritorious Work in Astronomy. She is recognized for her leadership of foundational work that is greatly advancing our understanding of explosive astrophysical transients and...

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First supernova detected, confirmed, classified and shared by AI

New artificial intelligence tool removes humans from entire search, discovery process A fully automated process, including a brand-new artificial intelligence (AI) tool, has successfully detected, identified and classified its first supernova. Developed by an international collaboration led by Northwestern University, the new...

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Bursts of star formation explain mysterious brightness at cosmic dawn

Intense flashes of light, not mass, resolve the puzzle of impossible brightness When scientists viewed the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) first images of the universe’s earliest galaxies, they were shocked. The young galaxies appeared too bright, too massive and too...

A Pink Line train traveling along 21st Street in Lawndale. According to the new study, neighborhoods on Chicago's West Side, including North and South Lawndale, have 32% higher concentrations of nitrogen dioxide than the rest of the city.

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New study provides further evidence of environmental inequities in the city

Chicago’s West Side is air pollution hotspot The western edge of Chicago — including the North and South Lawndale, East Garfield Park, Archer Heights and Brighton Park neighborhoods — experiences up to 32% higher concentrations of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) air pollution...