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If you haven’t noticed, there seems to be a “Great Migration” happening among social media users. Over the last few days, the Chinese-owned “RedNote” was the most downloaded social media app as the U.S. government’s TikTok ban is set to kick in on Sunday. This follows an earlier “migration” where users gravitated toward alt-platforms like right-leaning Truth Social and Rumble. Left-leaning users recently began moving away from platforms like X and Meta, citing rollbacks of safeguards against hate speech, misinformation and other harmful content.
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A Northwestern University-led research team has developed the first two-dimensional (2D) mechanically interlocked material. With further work, it holds promise for use in high-performance, light-weight body armor and other uses that demand lightweight, flexible and tough materials.

The Food and Drug Administration’s decision today to ban the color additive Red 3 from food products is being welcomed as a long overdue move to address significant public health concerns says Dr. Melinda Ring, the director of the Osher Center for Integrative Health at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a Northwestern Medicine physician.

Doctors in the U.S. have reported feeling unprepared to care for people with disabilities and have revealed significant negative bias about this population, according to previous research. A new Northwestern Medicine study has found much of this could be rooted in their medical school training.

A new set of global clinical guidelines to redefine obesity was released Jan. 14. The new definition will move away from relying solely on BMI to diagnose obesity.

The Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts at Northwestern University is turning up the heat this winter with Tina Howe’s acclaimed comedy “Museum,” the Chicago premiere of Gabriel Kahane’s “February House," and “DanceWorks 2025: signal::transfer,” a boundary-pushing dance production that transcends boundaries of time and space.

A new Northwestern study shows how achieving equity in various social drivers of health — but particularly education — could nearly eliminate heart health gaps for Black and Hispanic mothers.

Dr. Jennifer Jao, pediatric infectious disease expert from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, has been selected as co-chair of the International Maternal Pediatric and Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials (IMPAACT) Network funded by the National Institutes of Health.
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Northwestern scientists have adapted a sensing platform to detect and even measure chemicals at low enough concentrations to have use outside the lab. The system, which is 10 times more sensitive than previous sensors built by the team, opens the door for the system to be applied to disease detection and monitoring in the human body for nucleic acids and bacteria.

EVANSTON, Ill. --- The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Friday, Jan. 10 during TikTok’s appeal to stop the enforcement of a federal law that requires the social media titan to shut down in the U.S. this month.
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