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Nearly 20% of suicides in Illinois between 2020 and 2021 were among people 65 years and older, according to recently released data from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

An international team of researchers, including a Northwestern University chemist, has discovered that metallic minerals on the deep-ocean floor produce oxygen — 13,000 feet below the surface.

Iron oxide, a naturally occurring mineral in soils and sediments, can perform the reaction that transforms organic phosphorus to generate the inorganic form.

Northwestern University fertility expert says IVF should be the one thing all politicians can agree on.
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A new study from Northwestern University hijacked the body's transit system and sent tiny, virus-sized containers to effectively deliver an engineered protein to its target cell and trigger a change in the cell’s gene expression.

As more details emerge about the gunman in Donald Trump’s assassination attempt, Northwestern University mass-shooting expert Lori Post is available to talk to media about her research, which identifies developmental typologies of mass shooters.
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Important information for journalists related to Northwestern Medicine Field at Martin Stadium — the temporary structures at the Lanny and Sharon Martin athletics facility on Northwestern’s Evanston lakefront.

Northwestern University professors in the fields of political science, communications, psychology and management discuss what they will be watching for during the Republican National Convention, which will take place Monday, July 15 through Thursday, July 18 in Milwaukee.
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A new study from Northwestern University researchers on the most promising studied catalysts, iridium-based oxides, enabled the design of a novel catalyst that maintains higher activity, longer stability and more efficient iridium use, which could make green hydrogen production feasible.

Northwestern University engineers have developed a new soft, flexible device that makes robots move by expanding and contracting — just like a human muscle.