As Earth’s climate continues to warm, researchers around the globe are exploring ways to capture CO 2 from the air and store it deep underground. The method transforms CO2 into valuable, ...

A team of scientists with Professor Tobin J. Marks broke down plastic using a simple, inexpensive catalyst and air.

Researchers long have been interested in spider silk because of its remarkable properties. It’s stronger than steel, tougher ...

The Internet Society Pulse Research Fellowship supports researchers conducting data-driven analysis or developing tools that ...

Industrialization disrupted the labor of artisans and craftworkers, just as the era of information technology and automation shifted workforce tasks and led to occupational obsolescence. How will the ...

An industry-academia collaboration team including Northwestern Engineering’s Karan Ahuja earned a 2025 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction ...

The Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences at Northwestern Engineering has announced two new faculty hires. Naichen Shi will join this fall as an assistant professor while Zikai ...

Toxic metals like lead and cadmium are dangerous water contaminants. The team combined nanomechanical microcantilevers with synthetic biology biosensors to create an ultrasensitive platform that ...

Northwestern Engineering’s Elizabeth Gerber has been elected to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer–Human Interaction (SIGCHI) Academy Class of 2025. ACM ...

Northwestern University has selected five innovative science and engineering research projects to receive critical funding as part of its Crown Family/Israel Innovation Project Collaborative Seed ...