You may know SNAP as an economic and public-health aid. But it can also benefit children during early childhood education and even in prenatal development. Read more
As the city's longtime sewer is slowly converted into a civic centerpiece, an immense new project will catalog the bad (and good) organisms that live there. Read more
Today through November 12, Northwestern will take public feedback on the plans by three finalists in a Biomedical Research Building Competition. Read more
Sixteen years after Northwestern Memorial became one of the first U.S. hospitals to offer conventional and alternative medicines, questions remain about the latter treatments' efficacy. Read more
Violent crime jumps when fewer people are locked up—whether it's in a mental institution, or, more recently, in prison. As America's staggering incarceration rate drops, does anyone have a better idea? Read more
