When NASA’s Perseverance rover landed in Jezero Crater in 2021, its primary mission was to scour the remnants of a dried-up Martian lakebed for signs of ancient life. Scientists have been focused on ...

People arrested while protesting ICE say federal agents took samples of their DNA. It's legal, but experts say the practice raises questions about what the government is doing with that genetic data.

A team led by Professor Daniel Abrams and PhD graduate Emma Zajdela (PhD ’23) created—and mined—the most comprehensive ...

Fashion insiders and beauty magazines have long cited the "20-year-rule"—the idea that clothing trends often resurface every two decades. According to Northwestern University scientists, that ...

A growing field of research suggests that some medical treatments, such as cancer therapy or vaccines, might be more effective when given at certain times of the day ...

Confidence intervals estimate likelihood of a data set's accuracy, aiding financial decisions. Utilizing confidence intervals in risk management helps stabilize cost forecasts. Larger sample sizes ...

Good news: starting your running journey doesn't have to require diving in head-first and sprinting for 30 minutes straight. If you’ve never been much of a runner (or you’re starting to get back into ...

One of the latest fitness fads trending on social media is “Japanese walking,” a 30-minute exercise regimen in which you alternate walking at a normal pace with bursts of speed. It’s easy to see the ...

Assets in interval funds surged to $98 billion by the end of 2024, marking a 31% increase from the previous year, according to new research from Cerulli Associates. While the structure’s expansion is ...

Personally identifiable information has been found in DataComp CommonPool, one of the largest open-source data sets used to train image generation models. Millions of images of passports, credit cards ...