Existing 3D printing methods often force users to choose among speed, fine detail, and the ability to print high-performance materials. Direct ink additive lithography combines light-based and ...

Earth’s sustainability challenges—from climate change and pollution to food and water insecurity—are emerging faster than ever. Moreover, these issues are intertwined, rarely materializing one at a ...

Northwestern Engineering’s Vadim Backman has been elected a fellow of Optica, a society dedicated to promoting the global generation, application, commercialization, archiving and dissemination of ...

David Alexander's revamped Building Construction Estimating course teaches MPM students how developers, contractors, architects, and engineers view project costs differently.

The Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics (ESAM) at Northwestern University is highly interdisciplinary and focused on applications. Our faculty and students connect with ...

Post-disaster reconstruction is rapidly increasing global demand for construction materials, which drives unsustainable resource extraction, poor debris management, and heightened environmental and ...

Animals communicate in vastly different ways, but scientists lack a unifying explanation for why these diverse signals cluster around similar rhythmic tempos. Identifying a shared neural “sweet spot” ...

Northwestern Engineering’s Jonathan Rivnay was named the National Laureate in Physical Sciences and Engineering for the Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists, an achievement only awarded to one ...

Perovskite solar cells are a promising alternative to traditional silicon solar panels but have poor durability. Professor Ted Sargent, Research associate professor Bin Chen, Postdoctoral fellows ...

Instead of camouflaging a drone’s appearance, researchers designed its entire body to spin rapidly and exploit motion blur to make it far less perceptible to human vision. By exploiting the quirks of ...

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