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An international team of astronomers, including Northwestern University astrophysicists, has detected the brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever recorded. Affectionately referred to as the B.O.A.T. (“bright of all time”), the powerful explosion is more than 10 times brighter than previously recorded GRBs.

Northwestern University researchers have uncovered a previously unknown property of colloidal crystals called shape memory, highly ordered three-dimensional arrays of nanoparticles.

Pregnant smokers reduced their smoking by an average of one cigarette per day before becoming aware they were pregnant, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study of more than 400 pregnant people. Then, in the month after learning of their pregnancy, participants reduced smoking by another four cigarettes per day.

Julio M. Ottino, dean of the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University, will step down as dean at the end of the 2022-23 academic year, Provost Kathleen Hagerty announced today.

A new Northwestern Medicine study reports significant variation in the prevalence of obesity among subgroups of Asian American adults. Health risks in this population also may start at a lower BMI than standard BMI definitions of obesity.

Northwestern University political scientists, economists, legal scholars and other faculty are available to discuss the key issues in the midterm elections, from the economy and reproductive rights to immigration and foreign policy.
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Now, a team led by Northwestern University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has discovered a way to create slow movements using just chemistry and applied it to microrobotics. With the discovery also comes a new understanding of thermodynamics in which asymmetry and difference benefits a system.

The American Music Theatre Project (AMTP) at Northwestern University announces its 2022-2023 season of new musical works and the arrival of multi-talented Broadway artist Alexander Gemignani as its new artistic director.

The Center for the Study of Diversity and Democracy (CSDD) at Northwestern University has launched a research collaborative to conduct a yearlong study on the City of Evanston’s reparations ordinance.

In a new study, researchers compared observed rainfall from two climatologically distinct time periods and across 17 different climate regions in the U.S. They found that when it’s rained in recent decades, it’s rained more.