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A new Northwestern Medicine study has found using a large genetic panel that checks for many genes at the same time is more likely to identify whether a study participant has both cardiomyopathy and a heart arrhythmia.

With the expected passage of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 this week, political scientists at Northwestern University discuss how recent legislative achievements may shape the outcome of November’s consequential elections.
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Environmental law experts weigh in on what the Inflation Reduction Act accomplishes, and possible next steps.

Northwestern University researchers have discovered a ubiquitous property of a complex network and developed a novel computational method that is the first to systematically exploit that property to control the whole network using only local information.

A new collection of research papers from Northwestern University and collaborating institutions sets out priority areas to provide better emergency care for people living with dementia in the United States.

Using STARFORGE simulations, astrophysicists discovered that star formation is a self-regulatory process. In other words, stars themselves set their own masses.

A new study focused on Black medical students finds those attending historically Black medical schools report a greater sense of belonging and greater confidence in their scholastic abilities than those in predominantly white medical schools.

A Northwestern University research team has identified a molecular switch, through a protein called CDK9, that plays an early and critical role in the skin stem cell differentiation process.

For the first time, scientists have recorded millimeter-wavelength light from a fiery explosion caused by the merger of a neutron star with another star. The researchers examined the short-duration gamma-ray burst's afterglow to determine its location.

Thanks to a gift from Nexstar Media Group, Inc., parent company of WGN Radio, a 70-year swath of WGN radio’s audio archive now resides at Northwestern University Libraries in the Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections and University Archives.