Northwestern University combines innovative teaching and pioneering research in a highly collaborative environment that transcends traditional academic boundaries. It provides students and faculty exceptional opportunities for intellectual, personal and professional growth in a setting enhanced by the richness of Chicago, USA.
Menggunakan teknologi dan retorika, perusahaan transportasi online berhasil mendikte pengemudi dan dalam waktu yang sama menciptakan ilusi hubungan yang setara.
Ride-hailing app drivers – partners or exploited labour?
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Penelitian baru menelusuri hubungan antara karya ilmiah dengan inovasi yang dipatenkan, memetakan bagaimana masyarakat diuntungkan oleh riset ilmiah dasar.
Who’s missing from this picture?
Lawrence Sinclair
The violence in Charlottesville affects all children, but racially motivated attacks make children of color feel particularly vulnerable. Here are some ways to protect them.
Basic research and applications coexist in a tangled two-way ecosystem.
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A new study connects the dots between published science and patented innovations, mapping just how society benefits from basic scientific research.
The Paris Agreement could provide a forum for international cooperation on risky, planet-scale engineering to cool the Earth.
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It’s increasingly likely that at some point, the world’s nations will need to broach the fraught discussion of geoengineering. The UN climate accord was a natural forum to do it.
House Speaker Paul Ryan announced March 24 that he was pulling his proposed health care bill from consideration.
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The U.S. has been arguing about health care for decades. Critics have argued that insurance for all is a sign of weakness or even Communist. Here’s a look at how the thinking has evolved – or not.
Dr. Ellen Wright Clayton, who has worked with those who have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, spoke to an open committee at the Institute of Medicine in February 2015 about the biomedical nature of CFS.
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Children with difficulty singing can be labelled as ‘nonmusical’ by parents, teachers and pop culture. This toxic idea of ‘talent’ can deprive people of music’s benefits for the rest of their lives.
Students of both genders carry around stereotypes about school achievement.
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Recent research raised concerns about girls’ stereotypes on their gender’s lack of ‘brilliance.’ But an overlooked finding suggests boys also hold hindering stereotypes about themselves in school.
Any antimicrobial chemicals in there?
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Mi Zhang, Michigan State University; David Mohr, Northwestern University, and Jingbo Meng, Michigan State University
Using sensors on smartphones and smartwatches can shed light on patients’ symptoms of depression, even identifying ones they didn’t notice or share with counselors.
Most whites would say they’re okay with diversity. But is there a threshold?
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Studies can’t predict an individual’s behavior. But meta-analyses of social science research turn up differences in men’s versus women’s leadership styles, on average.
What would it take to get more Americans to buy into our democracy?
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The massacre at an Orlando gay club is a savage reminder that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people still face harsh prejudice in America and lack full equal protections under the law.
We come across dishonest acts in our day-to-day lives. Perhaps we commit them as well. But, guess what? Most of us care so much about being moral that we tend to forget our unethical behavior.
Speller Jairam Hathwar from Painted Post, New York in the championship round of the 2016 National Spelling Bee.
Shalini Shankar
What do recent National Spelling Bee successes reveal about the role of Indian-Americans in brain sports? And is this a moment to expand the definition of what it means to be American?
Humidity levels can mean life or death for insects.
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Detecting drier or wetter conditions is crucial for insect survival. We’ve long known they can do this – now researchers have discovered the genetic and neural basis for their humidity-sensing system.