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New study finds a bacterium in the Comamonadacae family can break down the plastic for food. Researchers also identified the enzyme the bacterium use to degrade plastic. The discovery opens new possibilities for developing bacteria-based engineering solutions to help clean up difficult-to-remove plastic waste, which pollutes drinking water and harms wildlife.

CHICAGO --- Following a term in which the U.S. Supreme Court made historic rulings regarding presidential immunity, abortion, government regulation of businesses and unhoused people, the Court is set to be back in session this Monday, Oct. 7.
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A multi-institutional team of researchers, including two Northwestern University engineers, has received up to $34 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to fast-track the development of a low-cost bioelectronic implant to treat patients with obesity and Type 2 diabetes.

The ongoing wars in the Middle East and Ukraine underscore the serious concerns voters will consider in November as they weigh the different approaches to foreign policy and international security as presented by Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. Northwestern University experts in political science and international diplomacy share their points of view on the recent report by the Commission on the National Defense Strategy, and the current threats facing the U.S.
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A comic tale of youthful liberation and a master class led by Grammy Award-winning soprano Christine Goerke open the 2024-25 season of voice and opera performances at the Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music. Benjamin Britten’s “Albert Herring” tells the story of a young man finding his independence amid the societal pressures and rigid expectations of a small English village in the early 1900s.

Northwestern University has been awarded $20 million over five years from the National Institutes of Health to study how incarceration affects health, age-related conditions and risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD). Led by Feinberg School of Medicine’s Linda Teplin, principal investigator of the Northwestern Juvenile Project (NJP), the study is the first of its kind.

Northwestern University’s American Music Theatre Project (AMTP) and Teatro Vista Productions (TVP) present a one-night-only, free concert event featuring Mexican musical sensation Jaimie Lozano. “Jamie Lozano & The Familia: Songs by an Immigrant” takes place on Monday, Oct 14 at Wirtz Center Chicago located inside Abbott Hall, 710 N. Lake Shore Drive on Northwestern’s Chicago campus.

For the first time ever, researchers have witnessed — in real time and at the molecular-scale — hydrogen and oxygen atoms merge to form tiny, nano-sized bubbles of water.

Anyone tuning into NPR’s Morning Edition Sept. 30 will hear the launch of a new program, “Stress Less: A quest to reclaim your calm,” which will incorporate Northwestern University's Resilience Challenge.

Northwestern University Center for Audiology, Speech, Language and Learning (NUCASLL) in the School of Communication is launching a series of free public workshops using improvision to help young people who stutter. The series titled “Break the Blocks” was successfully piloted last year and is expanding this fall.