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More than 2 million California households rely on domestic workers to care for their loved ones and keep their living space clean and safe, but new research by the Workplace Justice Lab, a multi-institutional partnership including Northwestern University and Rutgers University reveals that many of these vital workers are systematically deprived of basic wage protections.

Astrophysicists detect 128 new gravitational-wave candidates, expanding the catalog from the previous catalog’s 90 events.

Northwestern University faculty are available to discuss 2026 election topics including redistricting, voter behavior, campaign strategy, election law, misinformation, polarization and political history.
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For families of children with Dravet syndrome who have exhausted conventional treatment options, new hope is emerging.

First study to use crowdsourced comments to assess effects of heat underground. Knowing when people are uncomfortable could inform targeted interventions.

Study marks first evolved robot to set foot outdoors and first modular robot with agility.

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine announced today (March 5) that Dr. Jean-Laurent Casanova, the Levy Family Professor at Rockefeller University, pediatrician at the Necker Hospital for Sick Children and Imagine Institute in Paris and investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute won the 2026 Mechthild Esser Nemmers Prize in Medical Science at Northwestern University. Casanova received the prize, which carries a $350,000 stipend, for his discovery of the human genetic and immunological determinants of infectious diseases. He will come to the Feinberg campus in Chicago in September to meet with students and faculty and deliver a public lecture.

Northwestern University scientists and physicians are raising concerns about two proposals currently under review by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that could dramatically increase artificial light at night — potentially disrupting sleep, circadian rhythms and seasonal biological cycles.
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The Center for International Human Rights (CIHR) at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law has awarded their 11th Global Jurist of the Year Award to Magistrate Judge Fernando Cruz Castro of Costa Rica for his judicial leadership centering the dignity and fundamental rights of migrants.

Northwestern University researchers have released a data report that examines fatal child abuse cases between 2015 and 2022 among young children aged 10 and under in Illinois.