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Northwestern University scientists have launched The OD Pulse, a new national, regional and state dashboard designed to track drug overdose deaths between January 1999 to April 2025, with unprecedented timeliness and precision.

Astronomers directly imaged two separate collisions between rocky objects in the Fomalhaut star system.

Scientists tested experimental drug NU-9 in a pre-symptomatic animal model of Alzheimer’s disease. Drug dramatically reduced brain changes that emerge near the disease’s onset.

Northwestern University experts warn the world is entering a destabilizing “post-moderation” era. To confront and analyze the risks this shift poses to democratic societies, the Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and the Center for Communication & Public Policy will host Global Disinformation in a Post-Modernation World on Thursday, Jan. 22 and Friday, Jan. 23.

At times, 2025 has felt like a series of sprints in a never-ending news marathon. Amid the deluge of stories coming out of the second Trump administration, the growing presence of AI in nearly every facet of daily life, extreme weather events, global conflicts — to name just a few — it can feel challenging to keep up. Good news: Northwestern researchers have been hard at work bringing new information and discoveries to the fore. Here are a few research highlights over this past year that deserve a second look.

The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University presents the exhibitions, “Hamdia Traoré’s Des marabouts de Djenné and Muslim Portraiture in Mali,” and “Teresa Montoya: Tó Łitso (Yellow Water): Ten Years After the Gold King Mine Spill,” Feb. 4 -July 14, 2026.

New study discovers a key iron mineral in soil has a nanoscale mosaic of positive and negative charges. Varied charges, hydrogen bonding and strong chemical bonds enable mineral to trap carbon. Findings help explain why some carbon is locked in soils for centuries

Northwestern University’s annual commemoration of the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will pay tribute to King’s vision for a “Beloved Community” with events and projects planned throughout the month.

Tanning bed use is tied to almost a threefold increase in melanoma risk, and for the first time, scientists have shown how these devices cause melanoma-linked DNA damage across nearly the entire skin surface, reports a new study led by Northwestern Medicine and University of California, San Francisco.

Behavioral health care surged to represent 40% of all medical expenditures for U.S. children in 2022, nearly doubling from 22% in 2011, according to a new study from scientists at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.