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.

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

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

The Joint Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering is a non-thesis master’s degree ...

The $3 million award is supporting Professor Petia Vlahovska’s research into brain-machine interfaces and neuroprosthetics.

Recycling polyolefin plastics is inefficient and costly because their strong bonds make them hard to break down and require tedious pre-sorting. The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less ...

Northwestern Engineering’s John Rogers has won the Royal Society’s Bakerian Medal and Lecture, one of the Premier Awards given by the Royal Society of the United Kingdom. Rogers, who was elected a ...

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

Hani Mahmassani, William A. Patterson Distinguished Chair in Transportation, director of the Northwestern University Transportation Center (NUTC), and professor of civil and environmental engineering, ...

“Dancing molecules,” the promising new treatment for acute spinal cord injuries developed at Northwestern University, has received Orphan Drug Designation from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA ...

Slight temperature changes, imperceptible manufacturing imperfections, and heat generated by their own components can completely ruin an entire quantum quantum system-on-chip. Silicon photonics could ...