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The Japanese town of Namie has now been reduced to less than 8% of its original population as residents remain evacuated following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster and have yet to be back, said Mayor Kazuhiro Yoshida, during his address yesterday to a global audience of nuclear experts, hosted by Northwestern University.
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An early clinical trial in individuals with the deadly brain cancer, glioblastoma, showed an experimental drug developed by Northwestern University scientists was able to penetrate the blood-brain barrier and trigger the death of tumor cells.

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has stated that when people get the coronavirus vaccine, they can gather with other vaccinated people without masks. Northwestern Medicine experts weigh in.

A longtime professor of psychology in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University, J. Peter Rosenfeld died Feb. 15. He was 81.

This Sunday we’ll lose one hour of sleep when our clocks spring forward for daylight saving time. This can wreak havoc on our internal body clocks, impairing our mood, alertness and performance.
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Northwestern Medicine has identified the first case in Illinois of the COVID-19 variant called P.1., which was first found earlier this year in travelers from Brazil during routine airport screening in Tokyo, Japan. The variant has subsequently been identified in several other countries.

Northwestern Dance Marathon raised $674,395 on behalf of Compass to Care, which covers travel-related expenses for families accessing treatment at specialty pediatric cancer facilities. NUDM’s second beneficiary for the 24th consecutive year was Evanston Community Foundation (ECF).

More than 75% of people in Illinois who die from an opioid overdose do so before emergency personnel can make it to the overdose scene, a new Northwestern Medicine study found.

Preceding the PETM 56 million years ago, massive volcanic activity injected large amounts of carbon dioxide into the Earth system, causing global warming and ocean acidification.

The idea of creating selectively porous materials has captured the attention of chemists for decades. Now, new research from Northwestern University shows that fungi may have been doing exactly this for millions of years.