In the SpotlightRead in-depth coverage of Northwestern faculty work and research. |  From BBC Using a satellite telescope and a NASA observatory, a team of scientists led by Weinberg Ph.D. student Jillian Rastinejad discovered an unusual, minute-long gamma-ray burst. According to their research, the light may have originated from a kilonova, an astronomical event hypothesized to be caused by the collision of two neutron stars with a black hole.
|  From The Washington Post Hotel rooms are frequently small and packed with luminous electronics, in contrast to a home environment where light-emitting items may be safely hidden out of sight in adjacent rooms. Feinberg's Phylis Zee explains how such light may affect people in different ways. |  From the Chicago Tribune The Chicago Tribune calls the Block Museum’s “Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s-1980s” a “must-see for any and all lovers of nonrepresentational painting,” adding that the traveling show “offered not just aesthetic pleasures galore but also a total rethinking of canonical modernism via courtesy artists long ignored by Western art historians." |
| NU Voices | Read perspectives from Northwestern faculty in national media. |  From the Chicago Tribune "Sleep is so much more than a means to increase productivity, and we all deserve to sleep in the way that serves our lives in all their fullness — our health, our relationships and simply our day-to-day enjoyment of life," Feinberg’s Jennifer Mundt writes in the Chicago Tribune. |
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