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Most U.S. adults have a “heart age” several years older than their chronological age — sometimes by more than a decade. And that gap is wider among men and among those with lower incomes or education or who identify as Black or Hispanic, according to a new study led by Northwestern Medicine.

A new soft actuator moves and stiffens like biological muscle. The muscles, or actuators, are constructed from low-cost, 3D-printed rubbers. Engineers integrated three actuators as ‘muscles’ into a human-sized robotic leg with 3D-printed rigid ‘bones’ and elastic ‘tendons.'

Current methods to predict landslides rely primarily on rainfall intensity. New model combines various water-related factors with machine learning. When applied to more than 600 landslides in California, model identified the conditions that caused 89% of the events.

Lessons from biology enable Northwestern researchers to mimic cells’ ability to mind their own biological membranes.

Researchers from Northwestern University have developed a novel approach to integrate metal-sulfur active sites into metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs. Sulfur-containing MOFs significantly outperformed their non-sulfur counterparts in hydrogenation catalysis.

Specific way genetic material is organized in cells determines its ability to adapt to resist treatment. Scientists modulated this organization with an FDA-approved drug on the market. Strategy prevented cancer cells from adapting, making chemotherapy more effective in lab cultures and animal models of human cancer.

Neurobiologists precisely controlled the sensory environment for mice running the same maze day after day. Each run caused different ‘map-making’ neurons to activate. Finding suggests the brain’s spatial maps are inherently dynamic and constantly updating, despite navigating identical settings.

Nearly one in four teenagers are using dating apps — and it may not be hurting their mental health, suggests a new Northwestern Medicine study that monitored adolescents over six months.

As President Trump considers firing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, Martin Eichenbaum, the Charles Moskos Professor of Economics at Northwestern University, cautions that substituting a political appointee for an independently run institution would be a mistake, particularly now when the ratio of debt is unprecedented.
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The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University will present “Pouring, Spilling, Bleeding: Helen Frankenthaler and Artists’ Experiments on Paper” from Sept. 17 to Dec. 14. The exhibition explores how artists have used printmaking and works on paper as a site for experimentation, improvisation and aesthetic risk. The exhibition focuses on the pioneering print practice of Helen Frankenthaler (American, 1928 – 2011). Known for her signature “soak-stain” technique in painting, Frankenthaler brought a similar sensibility to printmaking, embracing fluidity, chance and the variable interaction of materials in her works on paper. Her lithographs, etchings and woodcuts reflect a dynamic, process-oriented approach which she has described as, “pouring, flooding, spilling, bleeding.”