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A new anti-obesity medication was shown to be almost twice as effective at helping individuals lose weight than some of the current weight loss drugs on the market, a new study found.

Two-thirds of respondents (67%), whether students or parents, say they are concerned about the quality of K–12 learning during the pandemic, according to a new national survey of more than 25,000 people by Northwestern, Northeastern, Rutgers and Harvard universities. The finding holds across respondents from different racial backgrounds, incomes and political affiliations.

Sarah Ahmad has always been interested in entrepreneurship. But during the summer before her senior year, she had a difficult decision to make: take the prestigious internship she was offered that would pay well and look good on her resume, or spend the summer working on her startup?

The School of Communication at Northwestern University will host a virtual residency with Hope Abelson Artist-in-Residence Michael R. Jackson Feb. 15 to March 5.

Amid the protests and turbulence of 2020, Americans set a new record for gun purchases, with the FBI tallying a new high of 21 million background checks over the year. That was an increase of 26% over the 2016 record of 15.7 million.

Senate Republicans unlikely to convict former President Trump
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A new Northwestern Medicine study used brain stimulation to improve memory of complex, realistic events and proved it is possible to measure and manipulate realistic types of memory.

In the current paper, Northwestern Medicine researchers found that participants who had been victimized by a weapon as adolescents were between two and three times more likely to perpetuate firearm violence as adults. They also found those with access to a firearm during adolescence were far more likely to perpetuate firearm violence as an adult.

Two professors and more than 50 students from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University will conduct their 17th consecutive Kellogg School Super Bowl Advertising Review.
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The speed of light has come to 3D printing. Northwestern University engineers have developed a new method that uses light to improve 3D printing speed and precision while also, in combination with a high-precision robot arm, providing the freedom to move, rotate or dilate each layer as the structure is being built.