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The Bienen School of Music offers an exciting lineup of voice and opera events this winter, featuring renowned artists and unique interdisciplinary performances. Acclaimed soprano Sondra Radvanovsky will lead a public vocal master class. Later in the season, Bienen hosts soprano Karen Slack, celebrated for her artistry and advocacy for Black classical musicians.

For the first time, astronomers have traced a fast radio burst (FRB) to the outskirts of an ancient, dead, elliptical galaxy — an unprecedented home for a phenomenon previously associated with much younger galaxies.

EVANSTON, Ill. --- On Friday, the U. S. Supreme Court unanimously voted to uphold a federal law banning the social media app TikTok. Unless sold by its China-based parent company, ByteDance, the app will be removed from app stores beginning on Sunday, Jan. 19.
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The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University presents “it takes a long time to stay here: Paintings by Jordan Ann Craig,” the first major solo exhibition in the Midwest of work by Northern Cheyenne artist Jordan Ann Craig. Opening on Jan. 25, the exhibition will showcase seven large-scale abstract paintings displayed together for the first time.

If you haven’t noticed, there seems to be a “Great Migration” happening among social media users. Over the last few days, the Chinese-owned “RedNote” was the most downloaded social media app as the U.S. government’s TikTok ban is set to kick in on Sunday. This follows an earlier “migration” where users gravitated toward alt-platforms like right-leaning Truth Social and Rumble. Left-leaning users recently began moving away from platforms like X and Meta, citing rollbacks of safeguards against hate speech, misinformation and other harmful content.
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A Northwestern University-led research team has developed the first two-dimensional (2D) mechanically interlocked material. With further work, it holds promise for use in high-performance, light-weight body armor and other uses that demand lightweight, flexible and tough materials.

The Food and Drug Administration’s decision today to ban the color additive Red 3 from food products is being welcomed as a long overdue move to address significant public health concerns says Dr. Melinda Ring, the director of the Osher Center for Integrative Health at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a Northwestern Medicine physician.

Doctors in the U.S. have reported feeling unprepared to care for people with disabilities and have revealed significant negative bias about this population, according to previous research. A new Northwestern Medicine study has found much of this could be rooted in their medical school training.

A new set of global clinical guidelines to redefine obesity was released Jan. 14. The new definition will move away from relying solely on BMI to diagnose obesity.

The Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts at Northwestern University is turning up the heat this winter with Tina Howe’s acclaimed comedy “Museum,” the Chicago premiere of Gabriel Kahane’s “February House," and “DanceWorks 2025: signal::transfer,” a boundary-pushing dance production that transcends boundaries of time and space.