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Quilts have played an important role in the history of Black American folk art specifically and American folk art in general. However, for Tracy L. Vaughn-Manley and “sister quilters” Betty Joy Bonds of Chicago and Melissa Blount of…

All non-white racial and ethnic groups are underrepresented in OB-GYN clinical trials, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study.Since clinical trials and scientific publications inform clinical care, failing to report the race and…

The world’s best artists can take a handful of differently colored paints and create a museum-worthy canvas that looks like nothing else. They do so by drawing upon inspiration, knowledge of what’s been done in the past and design rules…

NASA has selected STAR-X, a space mission proposed to the agency’s Explorer program that includes Northwestern University astrophysicists Vicky Kalogera, Wen-Fai Fong and Charlie Kilpatrick, as one of two finalists to launch a research…

As 2023 peers around the corner, people will no doubt begin thinking through their lists of New Year’s resolutions. While healthy eating, exercise, budgeting and others are important, cardiology and sleep medicine experts at Northwestern…

Just in time for the holidays, an innovative joint project by the City of Evanston and Northwestern University is part of a growing movement to study the impact of guaranteed income. The Guaranteed Income Pilot Program provides 150…

For nearly two decades, astrophysicists have believed that long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) resulted solely from the collapse of massive stars. Now, a new study upends that long-established and long-accepted belief. Led by Northwestern…

Northwestern University researchers have discovered a previously unknown mechanism that drives aging.In a new study, researchers used artificial intelligence to analyze data from a wide variety of tissues, collected from humans, mice,…

In the fall of 2019 — before the onset of COVID-19 — emergency departments in Illinois experienced a spike in visits from youth ages 5 to 19 with suicidal thoughts or ideas, according to a new study from Northwestern University Feinberg…

For the first time, scientists at Northwestern Medicine have demonstrated a causal link between environmental phthalates (toxic chemicals found in everyday consumer products) and the increased growth of uterine fibroids, the most common…