Researchers from the labs of Professors Vinayak Dravid and Omar Farha developed a high-resolution approach to map ...

The flexible, hair-like device developed by Professors John Rogers and Yonggang Huang safely enters the uterus for continuous ...

The Northwestern CS Theory Group and Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago co-hosted the Junior Theorists Workshop held ...

Residential wood burning is a major but underrecognized source of wintertime PM2.5 air pollution, disproportionately harming urban communities and people of color despite relatively low wood use.

Scientists didn’t understand why independently oscillating microscopic particles suddenly begin moving in perfect sync when grouped together. Researchers showed that fluid-driven hydrodynamic ...

Three Northwestern students—Shraeya Iyer, Xi-Aan Loh, and Nalin (Fai) Poungpeth—received honorable mentions in the Computer Research Association (CRA) 2026 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award ...

Scientists know iron oxide minerals store large amounts of carbon in soils, but lack a detailed, quantitative understanding of the specific chemical mechanisms that allow them to bind such a wide ...

A research team developed a medium-entropy thermoelectric material that combines low heat flow with efficient electrical transport by leveraging hidden nanoscale structural features. Former PhD ...

Pneumonia remains highly unpredictable because patients with the same diagnosis and treatment often experience drastically different outcomes, and clinicians lack clear insight into why. Researchers ...

The Computer Science + X (CS+X) initiative at Northwestern University explodes the possibilities of interdisciplinary research. Our goal is to foster transformational relationships between computer ...

Research from Kyan Shlipak, an undergraduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, showed that thousands of US deaths per year are linked to particulate matter from wood smoke.