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An illustration of a gamma ray burst.

NU astrophysicists observe brightest gamma-ray burst ever detected

January 19, 2023

Last October, Northwestern fourth-year Ph.D. student Jillian Rastinejad woke up in the early morning while visiting colleagues at the University of California, Santa Barbara to apply for use of the Gemini-South...

A pregnant person’s shadow surrounded by messy chaotic lines against a gray background.

Feinberg physicians release paper on lack of diversity in OB-GYN research

January 16, 2023

Feinberg OB-GYN physicians published a paper in December describing the ethnic and racial data disparities within clinical trials, which vary highly between fields. As a whole, the paper states that...

Graphic of a telescope below an image of many galaxies, one of which has a gamma ray emitting from it.

Northwestern astronomers develop largest known database of galaxies originating short gamma-ray bursts

January 16, 2023

A Northwestern-led team of astronomers reached for the stars with a recently compiled gamma-ray galaxy database. The public database, known as BRIGHT, or the Broad-band Repository for Investigating...

An illustration of ChatGPT responding to the prompt “write me an essay about AI.”

Northwestern community members discuss use of AI program ChatGPT to write academic papers

January 13, 2023

Essay bots may be the next industry to be automated away, thanks to AI program ChatGPT.  Artificial intelligence can be used to perform a variety of human-like tasks, including turning information...

A gray telescope sits on a purple platform in the gray metal dome of Dearborn Observatory.

Space mission with NU scientists named finalist for NASA exploration program

January 10, 2023

A space mission involving Northwestern astrophysicists has been selected as a finalist to lead NASA’s Explorers Program, the University announced in a news release. The STAR-X mission, one of two...

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