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To help journalists and news organizations understand potential use and misuse of generative artificial intelligence, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has granted Northwestern University $1 million from its aligned commitment through Press Forward.

Researchers detected the first gravitational-wave signal from a merger between a potential neutron star and a mystery object in the “mass gap” — the range that lies between the heaviest known neutron star and the lightest known black hole.

Northwestern University presents “The 93rd Annual Waa-Mu Show: Taken Away, A Musical Trilogy” April 26 through May 5 in Cahn Auditorium. Rather than a single, longer-format musical, student writers and the cast have collaboratively shaped a trilogy of short-form musicals around a common theme — loss and the poignant exploration of something being taken away.

Construction will begin this summer to redevelop Northwestern University’s East Lawn — an open area adjacent to Norris University Center on the Evanston campus. It will be renamed the Cohen Lawn.

Densely packed, fast-moving stars at the Milky Way’s center can collide with each other. New research uses simulations to explore the outcomes of these collisions. Some collisions are more like ‘violent high fives’ while others are 'eat their neighbors.'

Northwestern professor is building a library of lunar soil compositions, which will be used to inform the construction process on the Moon.

A new Northwestern Medicine study tested a specially designed ChatGPT to see if it could successfully provide answers to patients’ common questions about radiation oncology. Patients may be too overwhelmed to address all their concerns during a clinical visit or forget what the physician told them.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is tracking 479 anti-LGBTQ bills in the U.S. that are in various phases of legislation, including broad-reaching, bundled bill packages proposed in Georgia just days ago that would — among other things — ban trans athlete participation and ban gender nonconforming students from bathrooms aligning with their gender identity.
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Northwestern University has received the ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year — Sustained Excellence Award for the fifth consecutive year from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) after it became the first university to receive the award in 2020.

New implantable sensor measures strain to detect bladder filling. Implant continuously streams data to smartphone, so users and their physicians can monitor filling/emptying in real time.