In the pandemic, people wear face masks to respect and protect others — not merely to protect themselves, says a team of Northwestern Engineering researchers. With this in mind, the researchers ...

This is Work in Progress, a newsletter by Derek Thompson about work, technology, and how to solve some of America’s biggest problems. Sign up here to get it every wee k. In the past few weeks, the ...

When Jiaxing Huang, a materials scientist at Northwestern University, heard that Wuhan, China, was entering a lockdown to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, he immediately began ...