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U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) will participate in the inaugural Buffett Fireside Chat Thursday, Dec. 2, at the Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs at Northwestern University.

V.S. Subrahmanian says policymakers in the United States and elsewhere are woefully unprepared for the challenges to cybersecurity posed by advances in artificial intelligence.
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The most likely cause of death for smokers is a fatal heart attack, stroke or heart failure that occurs without any warning signs, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study.

Herpes type 1 is sealed with a kiss for a lifetime. More than half of U.S. adults are carriers of HSV1 (herpes simplex virus type 1) which hibernates in the peripheral nervous system and can never be eradicated.

The Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA) expected authorization of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 booster for all adults Thursday is overdue and will stem rising cases, say Northwestern Medicine experts. (The Centers for Disease Control is supposed to meet to discuss data and safety on Friday.)

Northwestern University’s Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music welcomes guest artists back to the stage in Winter 2022, with the return of two popular concert series.

After two years of producing the Waa-Mu Show virtually, the co-chairs of Northwestern University’s 91st Annual Waa-Mu Show have announced the show will move back to Cahn Auditorium. “A Peculiar Inheritance,” a whodunit with antiques, socialites and secrets, will run April 29 to May 8, 2022.

Researchers have developed a new holographic camera that can see around corners and image objects hidden behind scattering media, including fog and human tissue.

Julius Jones has been on death row in Oklahoma for 19 years for a 1999 murder he’s always said he had no part in.
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A team of Northwestern University neurobiologists has identified a new gene, called Tango10, that is critical for daily behavioral rhythms and a healthy circadian clock.