Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dexter Filkins of the New Yorker on Wednesday reflected on his experience as an international reporter covering the Middle East. Filkins spoke at the opening ceremony...

On July 8, just after California experienced a 7.1-magnitude earthquake, the Illinois Emergency Management Agency issued a statement encouraging residents to prepare for possible local quakes. While Illinois...

Northwestern researchers engineered a new drug-delivery system that cloaks chemotherapeutics as fat to deceive and destroy cancerous tumors. The drug disguises itself as fat molecules, and tumors welcome...

Neurobiologists at Northwestern directly tested how the brain processes short exposure to light and found that acute bursts of light do not interfere with the body’s circadian rhythms. The study...

A multidisciplinary team of researchers at Northwestern and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have developed a new technique of electron microscopy that allows examination of nanoscale tubular materials...