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Researchers at Northwestern University and Israel’s Tel Aviv University have overcome a major barrier to achieving a low-cost solution for advanced robotic touch. The authors argue that the problem that has been lurking in the margins of many papers about touch sensors lies in the robotic skin itself.

Scientists at Northwestern University and University of California San Diego have developed a new, potent injectable therapy that can protect the heart from damage after a heart attack.

Northwestern University engineers have developed a pacemaker so tiny that it can fit inside the tip of a syringe — and be non-invasively injected into the body.

Harnessing moisture from air, Northwestern University chemists have developed a simple new method for breaking down plastic waste.

In a new study, Northwestern University researchers demonstrated that brewing tea naturally adsorbs heavy metals like lead and cadmium, effectively filtering dangerous contaminants out of drinks. Heavy metal ions stick to, or adsorb to, the surface of the tea leaves, where they stay trapped.

The sponge, coated with nanoparticles that have an affinity for pollutants, can collect metals like zinc and copper, as well as phosphate, and in previous iterations has successfully pulled lead from water, and microplastics and oil from lakes and oceans.

Northwestern Medicine scientists measure heart contraction and electrical activity in engineered human heart tissues

Northwestern Medicine investigators target a protein that increases pediatric brain cancer survival

A crucial component in joints, cartilage is notoriously difficult to repair

Researchers used tunable polymer transistors with off-on-off outputs that can make artificial spiking neurons

Advances ‘get us one step closer to the ultimate goal of targeted biological drug delivery’

Carbonated concrete offers potential to offset emissions from cement manufacturing

Researchers used stable materials alleviate the issue of cations moving within a material

Professors Guillermo Ameer and Cheng Sun developed a stent showing similar efficacy to commercial versions