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Study tracked association between death rates and tree canopy changes across 11 years in Chicago.

The tissue microenvironments surrounding HIV-infected immune cells look a lot like those surrounding cancerous tumors, reports a new Northwestern University study.

As Congress continues to debate whether lawmakers should be allowed to trade individual stocks, new research from Northwestern University, Texas A&M University and the University of Oregon suggests that information may spread through social networks inside the Senate in ways that influence investment decisions.

The Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music announces its 2026-27 guest artist concerts, including five Northwestern University debuts and a diverse lineup of internationally acclaimed artists.

AI learned to schedule observations from 13 years of historical telescope data.

Calcium isotopes in fossilized shells show ocean acidification caused the extinction event.

Strategy overturns assumption that flexible building blocks cannot produce perfectly ordered crystals.

A new Northwestern University study explores how Republicans and Democrats who help shape their party’s platforms understand and think about immigration status at a time of increasingly punitive immigration politics. “Meanings of migrant illegality” was published in May by the Cambridge University Press Law and Society Review. The study’s author is Jesse Yeh, a political sociologist and assistant professor of instruction in legal studies at Northwestern’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Northwestern University $20 million over four years to establish the nation’s first publicly accessible, AI-powered cloud laboratory for protein engineering.

Today (July 23), Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, along with several other members of the Illinois General Assembly, gathered at Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ with members of the Till family as he signed into Illinois law declaring July 25 as Emmett Till Day. The day is intended to educate, remember and honor the life of Emmett Till — a 14-year-old Chicago boy who was lynched in the Mississippi Delta in 1955.
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