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Researchers developed a new device to monitor and treat heart disease and dysfunction in the days, weeks or months following cardiac events. And, after the device is no longer needed, it harmlessly dissolves inside the body, bypassing the need for extraction.

More green spaces were associated with slower biological aging, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study. People who lived near more green spaces were biologically 2.5 years younger, on average, than those who live near less greenness.

Northwestern astrophysicists are part of an international team of scientists using advanced simulation tools that has predicted the existence of merging massive, 30 solar mass black hole binaries in Milky Way-like galaxies, challenging previous theories.

An international team of researchers, including Northwestern University astrophysicists, have used a galaxy-sized tool composed of 68 dead stars to sense the longest, slowest gravitational waves ever detected.

A study resulting from a joint collaboration between Northwestern’s Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory and Northwestern University Athletics and Recreation and published in the journal Exercise, Sport, and Movement has uncovered a brain measure that could one day help to identify an athlete’s tipping point for subconcussive head injury.

Dr. Ravi Kalhan, Northwestern Medicine deputy division chief of pulmonary and critical care medicine, is available to comment on the short- and long-term health effects of the “unhealthy” air quality in Chicago, which is currently ranked as the worst in the world.

Three distinguished individuals will receive the 2023 Northwestern Alumni Medal — the highest honor given by the Northwestern Alumni Association.

On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which effectively overturned Roe v. Wade. Since then, health care, politics, law and other domains have felt the impact of the decision. Below, Northwestern faculty from a variety of disciplines offer comments on the anniversary for media.
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Astronomers traced a gamma-ray burst (GRB) to the heart of an ancient galaxy. In the dense, busy environment surrounding the galaxy’s supermassive black hole, two stars collided to generate the GRB. This unexpected GRB source offers a new understanding of how stars die.

Scientists at Northwestern University and Purdue University challenge the assumption that photoexcitations destroy each other with evidence that annihilation depends on the quantum phase relationships of photoexcitations.