When carbon molecules from plants enter the soil, they hit a definitive fork in the road. Either the carbon gets trapped in the soil for days or even years, where it is effectively sequestered from immediately entering the ...
Ecology
Feb 5, 2024
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Northwestern University researchers have successfully coaxed a deadly pathogen to destroy itself from the inside out.
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 31, 2024
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Northwestern University researchers have developed a novel method to host gas molecules as they are being analyzed in real time, using honeycomb structures found in nature as inspiration for an ultra-thin ceramic membrane ...
Nanomaterials
Jan 22, 2024
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In a paper published in Science Jan. 18, scientists Chad Mirkin and Sharon Glotzer and their teams at Northwestern University and University of Michigan, respectively, present findings in nanotechnology that could impact ...
Bio & Medicine
Jan 18, 2024
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Although dark matter makes up about 27% of the universe, astronomers have been unable to observe it directly.
Astronomy
Jan 17, 2024
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Northwestern University researchers have developed the first selective therapy to prevent allergic reactions, which can range in severity from itchy hives and watery eyes to trouble breathing and even death.
Bio & Medicine
Jan 16, 2024
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In summer 2022, astronomers detected the most powerful fast radio burst (FRB) ever observed. And coming from a location that dates halfway back to the Big Bang, it also was the farthest known FRB spotted to date.
Astronomy
Jan 9, 2024
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Some strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria that have recently acquired disease-enhancing genes may not behave as aggressively as expected, according to a Northwestern Medicine study recently published in Nature Communications.
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 8, 2024
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Many people are familiar with the haunting images of wildlife—including sea turtles, dolphins and seals—tangled in abandoned fishing nets.
Analytical Chemistry
Nov 30, 2023
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If you added up all the microbes living deep below Earth's surface, the amount of biomass would outweigh all life within our oceans.
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 28, 2023
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