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Erik Luijten, a McCormick associate dean and professor, will become Northwestern’s chief academic officer, succeeding ...

In 1977, an American physicist named John H. Van Vleck won the Nobel Prize for his work on magnetism. In his Nobel lecture, amid a discussion of rare earth elements, one sentence leaps out: ...

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Automated three-stage analysis pipeline sifts out whale calls from terabytes of distributed acoustic sensing data.

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Wendy Mao's tax-funded work on diamonds across the solar system for NASA has quietly flowed through her father's research ...

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