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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


Kanatzidis has been studying chalcogenides for upwards of 30 years.

Newly discovered mineral Kanatzidisite named after NU Prof. Mercouri Kanatzidis

October 9, 2023

A newly discovered mineral has been named after Northwestern chemistry Prof. Mercouri Kanatzidis, a materials scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory. The mineral...

A white tooth located in a pink circle-shaped mass.

NU research could help predict peoples’ future dental health

January 27, 2023

Dental caries, or tooth decay, is the most widespread noncommunicable disease worldwide. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than $45 billion is lost in productivity in...

Northwestern researchers develop a new portable neutron detector

January 29, 2020

Researchers at Northwestern and Argonne National Laboratory have developed a new neutron detector that is both compact and effective. Traditionally, many pre-existing neutron detectors consist of a...

Shark spines — and their flexibility — may be able to tell us something about human bone diseases like osteoporosis.

Researching shark spines may lead to clues about human bone health

July 30, 2019

It may be Shark Week, but that didn’t scare Northwestern Medicine scientist Stuart Stock away from researching the animal. Stock will be exploring the connection between shark and human spines at Argonne...

New center to facilitate collaborations for research on water

March 31, 2016

Although water covers about 70 percent of the Earth’s surface, the scarcity of fresh water has led researchers to focus on developing efficient ways of using this limited natural resource. On Monday,...

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