DeKalb, IL – NIU’s Gretel Mercado, a doctoral student in physics, has won a prestigious graduate student research award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)....

DeKalb, IL – Electric vehicles (EVs) are quiet, clean and generally pretty awesome. But any EV owner who has taken a long trip and waited 30...

DeKalb, IL – It sounds like it could be the set-up to a joke: What is the most abundant particle in the universe, is something...

DeKalb, IL – Scientists are using new tools that provide a window into the ancient past to better understand how the Grand Canyon’s oldest rocks...

DeKalb, IL – In the 1970s, a small North American diving duck known as the little bluebill or broadbill had an estimated population of 7...

DeKalb, IL – About five years ago, NIU Psychology Professor Brad Sagarin’s passion for playing Pokémon Go sparked a research project that sought to answer this...