The results are in—mentoring schoolgirls in STEM subjects in Year 9 can encourage greater interest in physics, chemistry, ...

Northwestern freshmen and sophomores who are financially eligible will now have unlimited access to textbooks through the ...

A parasitic worm uses static electricity to launch itself onto flying insects, a mechanism uncovered by physicists and ...

As America’s vehicles get heavier, they’re killing more Americans, according to research by The Economist. “America’s Killer ...

Engineers have developed a 'Chinese lantern' structure that can shape-shift into various three-dimensional forms on command.

The world's first multirobot system that integrates a humanoid robot with a transforming drone that can launch off the ...

Scientists have been using complicated, hypothetical particles to explain the Big Bang, but this theory posits that a simpler ...

No, it’s the awarding of a Nobel Prize in economics to Northwestern’s Joel Mokyr (along with Philippe Aghion of the Collège ...

Throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Muslim philosophers, scientists, and leaders have stood at the forefront ...

STOCKHOLM -- Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the Nobel memorial prize in economics Monday for their research ...

Northwestern University professor Joel Mokyr was among three people awarded the Nobel Prize in economics on Monday for their research into technological progress and economic growth.

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the prize for showing how “society must keep an eye on the factors that ...