An ultrathin protective coating developed by Professor Mark Hersam makes air-sensitive magnetic material compatible with ...

Led by Professor John Rogers, the Querrey-Simpson Institute for Translational Engineering for Advanced Medical Systems is launching with $29 million in support from Trustee Kimberly K. Querrey.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded Professor Jie Gu and co-PIs from the University of Minnesota and Duke University up to $3.8 million through the Scalable Analog Neural-networks ...

Professor Chad A. Mirkin will receive the 2023–2024 Harvey Prize in Science and Technology for his pioneering discoveries that have reshaped nanoscience and nanotechnology, nanomedicine, and drug ...

When you enter a hospital for treatment, you’re probably not thinking about whether the tools to keep you healthy are good for the environment. There are people, however, who are researching that ...

A new process that converts PET plastic into monomer building blocks, which can be recycled into new PET products or upcycled into higher value materials. Harnessing moisture from air, Northwestern ...

In-person conferences can be expensive and difficult to organize, making some wonder whether they are worth the cost and time. The COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on all aspects of society, ...

Scaling up perovskites for potential widespread use in solar cells has been a challenge due to arising defects. Yi Yang, postdoctoral fellow; Ted Sargent, Lynn Hopton Davis and Greg Davis Professor of ...

Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual; yet every cell in the body shares the same genes – so where is the language that writes the memory of cell identities?

From campy favorites like Mars Attacks! to this year’s Golden Globe nominee The Martian, Hollywood has long fantasized about putting boots on the Red Planet. But now that non-profit Mars One plans to ...