Northwestern University

A new study led by Northwestern University researchers used machine learning — a branch of artificial intelligence — to identify speech patterns in children with autism that were consistent between English and Cantonese, suggesting that…

Northwestern University’s popular TEACHx symposium, highlighting innovative experiments in teaching and learning, returned to an in-person event this year. More than 200 faculty, graduate students, learning designers and education…

A study led by Northwestern University plant biologists has determined that a species of fruit-bearing tree found in Borneo and the Philippines, long considered by Western botanists to be a single species, is actually two genetically…

Sixty percent of violence intervention workers in Chicago have witnessed a shooting attempt; 32% have witnessed someone else get shot while at work; 20% have been shot at while at work; and another 2% have been shot at and injured on the…

For nearly five decades, Northwestern University Dance Marathon (NUDM) has raised more than $23 million for various Evanston and Chicago-area charities. Next year, students will lace up their shoes and dance the night away March 3-5 to…

The social networking platform Reddit relies on volunteer moderators to prevent the site from being overrun by problematic content—including hate speech—and ensure that it remains appealing for users. Though uncompensated, this labor is…

Findings from a new Northwestern Medicine study rebut the idea that Black individuals’ higher risk of cardiovascular disease is because of biological differences. Black adults are at significantly higher risk (1.6-2.4 times) for…

Northwestern University engineers have developed the smallest-ever remote-controlled walking robot — and it comes in the form of a tiny, adorable peekytoe crab.Just a half-millimeter wide, the tiny crabs can bend, twist, crawl, walk, turn…

When a non-metastatic brain tumor — a meningioma — recurs after surgery and radiation treatment, a patient is out of options. No drugs are approved for these aggressive tumors, which occur in up to 20% of cases and can lead to patient…

Following the back-and-forth progress of pandemic infection rates and vaccine and masking recommendations has been challenging, especially for parents of school age children, many of whom remain hesitant about vaccinating their children.…