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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 3D reconstruction of select neurons within a small region of the human cortex.

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Brain’s structure hangs in ‘a delicate balance’

New finding appears to be universal across insects, mammals and humans When a magnet is heated up, it reaches a critical point where it loses magnetization. Called “criticality,” this point of high complexity is reached when a physical object is transitioning...

The Roman Space Telescope's simulated view over the Andromeda galaxy. Credit: NASA, NASA-GSFC, ASU, Robert Gendler DSS

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Dark matter: Astronomers anticipate upcoming images of the Andromeda galaxy may hold vital clues

Although dark matter makes up 27% of the universe, astronomers have been unable to observe it directly. Now, in a new study, an international team of researchers including Northwestern University astrophysicists has found that upcoming images from NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman...

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Using data for social good: Faculty empower students to use data to uplift community organizations

Northwestern University is building students’ data literacy while providing unique experiential learning opportunities to drive social good. Launched in September 2021 and powered by funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Metropolitan Chicago Data-Science Corps (MCDC) empowers undergraduate students from...

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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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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...

Artist’s impression of the planet Beta Pictoris b orbiting its star.

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Watch an exoplanet’s 17-year journey around its star

Longest time-lapse footage of an exoplanet to date was assembled from real data A Northwestern University astrophysicist has created the longest time-lapse video of an exoplanet to date. Constructed from real data, the footage shows Beta Pictoris b — a planet 12...