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State law at the time prohibited abortion after around 6 weeks. Legal experts say this kind of law leaves doctors uncertain of what's legal and can put patients in dangerous situations.

CHICAGO — If it hadn’t been for the pandemic, Derek Drake would have never discovered his purpose. Furloughed from his job at Northwestern University in 2020, he asked himself: “What’s the right next move?”

William Dichtel’s research with colleague Brittany Trang found that heating a combination of a widely used solvent and lye can destroy many types of common cancer-causing PFAS found in Teflon pans and many other products.

Riccardo Muti’s last season as music director of the CSO, and Lyric Opera’s “Don Carlo” are also among the highlights of the season.

A computer simulation of a supermassive black hole surprised astrophysicists by producing a rare type of X-shaped radio galaxy.

Coroners need hours in crime scenes to collect information about homicides. However, the high-resolution Microcalorimeter X-ray Imaging, or Micro-X, developed by the Northwestern University and funded by the NASA, headed on a five-minute “astronomical forensic mission” to collect evidence on the death of a star. The mission launched on August…

A group of over 12,000 chemicals called PFAS now pollute our water, food, and air. Now, a novel discovery offers a cheap, efficient method to eliminate some types of PFAS from water, which pose risks to human health.

Nearly six months into his murderous invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has brought shame on his once great nation and cemented his own legacy as a war criminal. The lasting ignominy Putin’s war and his lies have brought to Russia are just as self-destructive as they are contemptible…

New method capitalises on ‘Achilles’ heel’ of PFAS to degrade them more easily, scientists say