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Many have been scolded by their parents for eating late at night. Unfortunately, the parents are right on this one. Feinberg School of Medicine researchers published a research article in October revealing how eating at night decreases the body’s ability to turn energy from food into heat that leaves the body — a process known...

On Season 2, Episode 2 of Digital Diaries, Northwestern students talk about what advice they would give their past selves. ANITA LI: Content warning: this podcast contains explicit language. [music] ANITA LI: From The Daily Northwestern, I’m Anita Li. This is Digital Diaries, a weekly podcast following the college experience and asking students a question...

A Northwestern-led team of astronomers reached for the stars with a recently compiled gamma-ray galaxy database. The public database, known as BRIGHT, or the Broad-band Repository for Investigating Gamma-ray burst Host galaxies Traits, details 84 galaxies known to originate short gamma-ray bursts. Short gamma-ray bursts, or SGRBs, are explosions of energy theorized to be generated...

The Feinberg School of Medicine recently published a study revealing physician discrimination toward people with disabilities. The study, which was published earlier this month in Health Affairs, focused on people with intellectual disabilities, as well as disabilities related to mobility, hearing, vision and mental health. Researchers also asked broader questions regarding attitudes physicians have about...