Jane Clarke ’24 and Rachel C. Zhang ’24 MS have received 2025 Gates Cambridge Scholarships. Now celebrating its 25th year, the program identifies academically outstanding social leaders to pursue postgraduate study and research at the University of Cambridge. Established in 2000...
An international team of astronomers, including a Northwestern University astrophysicist, has traced a series of mysterious radio pulses to an unprecedented home. Starting a decade ago, astronomers have detected a pulse of radio emission every two hours, coming from the direction...
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. Gaudio, an assistant professor of industrial...
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 the...
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 the...
Most people have heard of “love at first sight.” But how about “love at first collision?” In a study fit for Valentine’s Day, Northwestern University astrophysicists discovered that binary black holes — when formed in crowded clusters of stars — align...
Northwestern University astrophysicist Adam Miller has received a 2025 Cottrell Scholar Award from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA), the United States’ first foundation wholly dedicated to science. Miller is among a diverse group of 16 early career scholars in chemistry, physics...
New strategy could maintain communications in a constantly changing network 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 Physical Review Letters, Northwestern...
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 image)...
New study shows planet formation might be more complicated than previously thought 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. But, in...
