On Wednesday, the Nobel Committee announced that it had awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry to researchers who pioneered major breakthroughs in computational chemistry. These include two researchers ...

Programmable material systems are emerging architectural structures but the co-design of structure, material, and external stimuli present grand challenges. A team with Northwestern Engineering’s Wei ...

Image illustrated by Susan Kraus. Commercial supersonic air travel promises the transport of passengers or cargo up to twice as quickly as today’s flights. However, one of the largest hurdles has ...