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Northwestern University clinical psychologist and scientist Kelli Scott is trying to re-envision care at opioid treatment programs (OTPs) to help patients receive more personalized treatment based on measuring their progress, which…

How does a pregnant person’s environment, diet, stress, medications and social wellbeing affect their pregnancy and — down the road — their child’s health? That will be the focus of a new two-year study from scientists at…

Gravitational waves — ripples in the fabric of space-time first predicted by Albert Einstein in 1916 — have been directly detected here on Earth since September 2015. Now an international team of scientists that includes a…

From neonatal and primary care to emergency medicine and surgery, the quality of health care received by racial and minority ethnic children in the U.S. is almost universally worse compared to their white peers, according to new findings…

Alzheimer’s disease, which is expected to have affected about 6.7 million patients in the U.S. in 2023, results in a substantial loss of brain cells. But the events that cause neuron death are poorly understood. A new Northwestern…

Even as the world slowly begins to decarbonize industrial processes, achieving lower concentrations of atmospheric carbon requires technologies that remove existing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere — rather than just prevent the creation…

A fully automated process, including a brand-new artificial intelligence (AI) tool, has successfully detected, identified and classified its first supernova. Developed by an international collaboration led by Northwestern University, the…

Communicating complex research in a clear and easy-to-grasp manner is difficult. At Northwestern, finding guidance on how to do it more easily doesn’t have to be. Faculty searching for resources to help them talk to the public about…

By analyzing tiny lunar crystals gathered by Apollo 17 astronauts in 1972, researchers recalculated the age of the Earth’s Moon. Although previous assessments estimated the Moon as 4.425 billion years old, the new study discovered it…

Shae Murphy, a third-year student in Northwestern’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, has been named a recipient of the prestigious Obama-Chesky Scholarship for Public Service, known as the Voyager Scholarship. Created by former…