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Dark matter experiment detected a single particle event that known background sources struggle to explain.

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Northwestern University $30 million over five years to establish a new center aimed at uncovering a hidden layer of information within the human genome.

A Northwestern Medicine oncologist is available for print and broadcast interviews to comment on the FDA approval today of a new “breakthrough” drug for advanced pancreatic cancer. Dr. Devalingam Mahalingam said the approval of the drug, daraxonrasib, marks “one of the most significant advances in pancreatic cancer treatment in more than a decade.”
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Today social media giant Meta has agreed to pay $17 billion to resolve allegations from nearly every state that the tech company purposely engineered Facebook and Instagram to be addictive to children and unlawfully gathered personal information from minors.
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As national MMR vaccination rates among kindergarteners continue to decline, according to a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report, the U.S. has recorded its first adult measles-related deaths of 2026 in Pennsylvania. Northwestern University pediatric infectious disease expert Dr. Tina Tan is available for media interviews.
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Loneliness can reprogram the brain in ways that push alcohol consumption, reports a new preclinical study led by Northwestern University and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. The scientists identified, for the first time, a brain mechanism through which isolation escalates alcohol use in male mice but suppresses it in females.

It’s an increasingly popular scan that measures calcium in the heart’s arteries and helps predict risk of future heart disease. But according to a new Northwestern Medicine study, the quick and inexpensive test — known as a coronary artery calcium scan — may be most valuable only for a specific group of patients.

When temperatures spike, emergency physicians expect to see more cases of dehydration and heat stroke. But a new Northwestern University study suggests that extreme heat also is linked to a much wider range of health problems seen in emergency departments and urgent care clinics, including skin conditions, multiple sclerosis and even injuries from traffic accidents.

Amid renewed national attention on postpartum mental health following recent news involving actress Hayden Panettiere and the ongoing Lindsay Clancy case, Northwestern University maternal depression expert Darius Tandon is available for interviews with the media.
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Today ABC sued the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), accusing the federal agency of infringing on its First Amendment rights after it threatened to strip ABC stations of their broadcast licenses earlier this year.
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