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A new study from Northwestern University and the University of Chicago offers underlying evidence that the engagement-based algorithms used by major social media platforms amplify intergroup, moralized, emotional (IME) and toxic political content — and that a relatively simple redesign can reduce that amplification without hurting users’ overall experience of the platform.

A largely overlooked space between cells in women’s brains may hold the key to understanding memory loss tied to estrogen decline after menopause, reports a new preclinical Northwestern Medicine study.

Megalibraries outperform emerging ‘self-driving labs’ in terms of speed and throughput to create and screen vast numbers of materials samples simultaneously.

Professors from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences are available to comment on upcoming Supreme Court rulings expected to be announced in the coming weeks.
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In less than two hours, a nine-person jury ruled in favor of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in a trial in which cofounder Elon Musk accused Altman of “stealing a charity.”
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Mung Chiang, the president of Purdue University, has been named the 18th president of Northwestern University, Northwestern's Board of Trustees announced today.

A drug widely used to treat asthma and allergies may also help fight aggressive cancers, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study that uncovered how tumors hijack common white blood cells to evade immunotherapy.

A new commentary written by researchers at Northwestern University and the National Institutes of Health weighs various options on how to define plagiarism in research manuscript writing in the ever-evolving world of GenAI.

A child’s future heart health may be partially shaped before they are born, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study that found pregnancy complications are linked to poorer cardiovascular health in offspring more than 20 years later.

The Agentic AI Investigative Journalism Challenge is a new contest led by the Generative AI + Journalism Initiative at Northwestern University and is working to unlock the potential of coding agents to increase the processing power of AI. The goal is to help investigative journalists work faster, more efficiently and smarter.