Three Northwestern University assistant professors — Julia Gaudio, Rachel Greenfeld and István Kovács — have received the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the foundation’s most prestigious honor for junior faculty members.…
The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way appears to be having a party — and it is weird, wild and wonderful.
Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a Northwestern University-led team of astrophysicists has gained
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The University has a total of seven professors named as Sloan Research Fellows, and along with MIT, has the most faculty in the 2025 cohort.
Seven Northwestern faculty members have been awarded a prestigious 2025 Sloan Research Fellowship. Gifted by …
While entangled photons hold incredible promise for quantum computing and communications, they have a major inherent disadvantage. After one use, they simply disappear.
But in a new study published in …
For the first time, astronomers have traced a fast radio burst (FRB) to the outskirts of an ancient, dead, elliptical galaxy — an unprecedented home for a phenomenon previously associated with much younger galaxies.
CHIME telescopes (shown here in featured …
Just as some children physically resemble their parents, many scientists have long thought that developing planets should resemble the swirling disk of gas and dust that births them.
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Northwestern University astrophysicist Allison Strom has received a 2024 Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The prestigious fellowship includes an unrestricted grant of $875,000 over five years to pursue innovative and experimental research.
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SkAI Institute will develop AI tools and accelerate astronomy’s data-driven revolution.
A large multi-institutional collaboration, led by Northwestern University, has received a $20 million grant to develop and apply new artificial intelligence (AI) tools to astrophysics research and deep space …
Ever since learning the surface of the planet Mars is cold and dead, scientists have wondered if there was a way to
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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 …