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Political science and history experts from Northwestern University are available to comment on the For the People Act.
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Catholic studies experts explains the move by conservative U.S. bishops to deny President Biden communion as hypocrisy and dangerous political folly inspired by Steven Bannon.
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Elie Rekhess, Crown Visiting Professor in Israel Studies at Northwestern University, is available to comment on the new political landscape in Israel following the formation of a new coalition government.
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Reports of China’s intention to loosen restrictions on childbirth are prompting experts to warn that previous efforts to control fertility backfired.
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By introducing nanoparticles into ordinary cement, researchers have formed a smarter, more durable and highly functional cement.

A new Northwestern Medicine study that cross-analyzed 20,020 U.S. clinical trials between 2000-2020 found women and men are underrepresented in clinical trials of different medical fields.

Ahead of a celebratory Father’s Day weekend that typically sees a spike in shootings in Chicago, Northwestern University researchers weigh in on the national pandemic of gun violence and policies and practices for interrupting the cycle.
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An experimental web-based production allows audiences to pick an avatar and the version of the show they want to ‘play.’ Reactivated June 18 to 30 on a reimagined web-based platform, “[re:CLICK] 2.0” is a streaming performance featuring a cast from both universities, four time zones and three countries.

While using a COVID modeling-based alert system, the Austin metropolitan area has sustained the lowest per capita COVID-19 death rate among all large Texas cities.

Cognitive psychologist Sandra Waxman, research specialist Kali Woodruff Carr and their colleagues identified developmental changes in 4- and 6-month-old infants’ neural responses to human speech and lemur calls, providing new insight into how the link to cognition becomes so rapidly attuned to human speech.