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The new system developed by Professor Chad Mirkin delivers CRISPR machinery more safely and effectively into cells.

The new detector developed by Professor Mercouri Kanatzidis promises to lower the cost and increase the quality of nuclear ...

A team including 25 Northwestern Engineering students took the highest honor at NASA’s 2024 annual Breakthrough, Innovative, and Game-Changing (BIG) Idea Challenge forum. This year’s theme — ...

A research team with Professors Wei Chen and Ryan Truby harnessed physics, computation, and 3D printing to autonomously produce materials that change shape on demand.

Northwestern Engineering’s Petia Vlahovska has earned a Trailblazer Engineering Impact Award (TRAILBLAZER) from the US National Science Foundation (NSF). Vlahovska, a professor of engineering sciences ...

Ising machines demonstrate significant potential to tackle computationally complex challenges, including combinatorial optimization problems related to logistics, manufacturing, finance, and AI. The ...

Conventional antiferromagnetic materials exhibit net zero magnetization and spin-degenerate energy bands, making them incompatible with current memory technologies that rely on net magnetization. A ...

The Computer Science + X (CS+X) initiative at Northwestern University explodes the possibilities of interdisciplinary research. Our goal is to foster transformational relationships between computer ...