A team including 25 Northwestern Engineering students took the highest honor at NASA’s 2024 annual Breakthrough, Innovative, and Game-Changing (BIG) Idea Challenge forum. On November 12 in Las Vegas, ...

A team led by Northwestern Engineering researchers has developed the first artificial intelligence (AI) to date that can intelligently design robots from scratch. To test the new AI, the researchers ...

Roboticists have no idea how to manually design a robot as athletic and intelligent as even the simplest animals. We could take inspiration from the evolutionary design of animals. But we will need to ...

The 2024 class of AAAS Fellows includes 471 scientists, engineers, and innovators spanning 24 scientific disciplines, recognized for their scientifically and socially distinguished achievements. “This ...

The funding will support a six-year effort to develop and test “Rx On-site Generation Using Electronics” (ROGUE), an implantable device that will deliver a biological therapy on demand to treat ...

“This is, to my knowledge, the first use of AI that demonstrably improves productivity, especially in health care. Even in other fields, I haven’t seen anything close to a 40 percent boost,” said ...

Northwestern Engineering’s Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering share a strong history of interconnected research activities, established research centers, and ...

According to a 2018 National Safety Council report, 63 percent of manufacturing workers report feeling tired at work, increasing the risk of accidents and injuries while decreasing overall performance ...

Northwestern University is hosting the Diffusion Fundamentals XI conference from June 30-July 2 in Evanston. This event, “Spreading in Nature, Technology, and Society” will bring together a highly ...

A major challenge in metal 3D printing is controlling the microstructure, which determines a material’s mechanical properties. One key factor is the formation of dislocations: defects in the crystal ...

If you’ve ever seen commercials for sports drinks, you’ve probably heard the mention of electrolytes. Mostly known as agents to maintain fluid balance in the human body, electrolyte intake is promoted ...