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While Northwestern Medicine health care providers cared for patients with COVID-19, 37 musicians cared for the doctors, nurses and other health care workers with a virtual performance.

In “The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, From Nixon to Trump,” author argues politicians need to take Hispanics seriously as political actors.

New handheld platform uses one sample to provide an easy-to-read positive or negative result. When it detects a contaminant exceeding the EPA's standards, it glows green.

Researchers developed a novel wearable device and set of data algorithms specifically tailored to catch early signs of COVID-19 and to monitor patients as the illness progresses.

Amb. Ian Kelly, ambassador in residence at Northwestern University, will address the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, also known as the U.S. Helsinki Commission, Thursday, July 2 in a hearing in Washington, D.C., that will examine how the tragic death of George Floyd at the hands of police and subsequent protests may have affected U.S. leadership abroad.
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In a new study of human enamel, researchers are the first to identify a small number of impurity atoms that may contribute to the enamel’s strength but also contribute to tooth decay.

People are beginning to break out of their COVID-19 quarantine bubbles and while there are mental health benefits to increased socializing, but it’s important to do it carefully to reduce your risk.
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An international research collaboration has detected a mystery object inside the puzzling area known as the “mass gap” -- the range that lies between the heaviest known neutron star and the lightest known black hole.

Researchers have developed 'robotic soft matter,' a new family of soft materials that imitates living creatures by bending, rotating and crawling when hit with blue light.

The unemployment rate in the United States is more than double that of other advanced economies, such as Germany’s, and inadequate employment protection in the U.S. likely is the key factor.
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