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A simple resin coating dramatically extends the lifetime of blue quantum-dot LEDs, addressing a key barrier to brighter, more ...

Three Northwestern schools represented the University at the ACM Conference on Economics and Computation this month.

What would happen if you threw a paper airplane from the International Space Station? It’s just the sort of idea that might emerge from a curious child — or, as it turns out, a physicist with a flair ...

A study on COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness has been published after being blocked from a government health journal.

The spotlight is on quantum stocks right now, with billions in government funding and a white-hot new IPO on the docket.

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It’s a weird time to be studying computer science. Recent grads have a higher unemployment rate than those in just about every other major—yes, even philosophy. The internet is littered with rants ...

This study offers a systematic analysis of scientific papers cited in both Republican and Democratic policy documents. Using data from Overton and Dimensions, we examine congressional reports, ...

College professors, in general, skew to the political left. But does their research? That’s the question animating a recent paper, “The ideological orientation of academic social science research 1960 ...

Science has always relied on a curious human’s mind forming a hypothesis, designing an experiment, analyzing the results and presenting the case to that person’s peers. Over centuries, we’ve built ...

A computer language created to spot errors in mathematical theorems has uncovered a fundamental error in a widely cited physics paper for the first time. The ...