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If the Chicago region replaced 30% of all on-road combustion-engine vehicles — including motorcycles, passenger cars and trucks, buses, refuse trucks and short- and long-haul trucks — with electric versions, it would annually save more than 1,000 lives and over $10 billion, according to a new Northwestern University study.

Producing the fertilizer urea using electrified synthesis could both denitrify wastewater while enabling low-carbon-intensity urea production. The process, which includes converting carbon dioxide and waste nitrogen by using a hybrid catalyst made of zinc and copper, could benefit water treatment facilities by reducing their carbon footprint and supplying a potential revenue stream.

COVID patients exhale high numbers of virus during the first eight days after symptoms start, as high as 1,000 copies per minute, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study. It is the first longitudinal, direct measure of the number of SARS-CoV-2 viral copies exhaled per minute over the course of the infection — from the first sign of symptoms until 20 days after.

The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University will present “Rosalie Favell: Indigenous Artists Facing the Camera” from Sept. 20 to Dec. 3.

Northwestern University researchers have developed the first electronic device for continuously monitoring the health of transplanted organs in real time.

Northwestern University’s Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for Performing and Media Arts in Chicago will host three innovative productions this fall including Roger Guenveur Smith and Marc Anthony Thompson’s “Otto Frank,” a reading of “In the Beginning There Was House” by Universes founders Steven Sapp and Mildred Ruiz-Sapp and the U.S. premiere of “Confessions of a Cockney Temple Dancer” by U.K. performer Shane Shambhu.

If the region surrounding Chicago — North America’s largest freight hub — shifted just 30% of its current on-road heavy-duty vehicles to electric versions, it would substantially reduce pollution and save hundreds of lives per year, with the benefits largely concentrated in disadvantaged communities, according to a new Northwestern University-led study.

Landis “Lanny” Martin ’68, ’73 JD (’02, ’07, ’08 P), Northwestern alumnus, life trustee, former chair of the Board of Trustees and one of the University’s most generous benefactors, died Sept. 1. He was 77 years old.

Northwestern University scientists have launched a public dashboard containing the most comprehensive data on unintentional fatal drug overdoses in Illinois.

After developing the first numerical simulation that follows the jet evolution in a black hole-neutron star merger out to large distances, the astrophysicists discovered that the post-merger black hole can launch jets of material from the swallowed neutron star.