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The first open-source digital twin of the Mcity Test Facility—the University of Michigan's test center for connected and autonomous vehicles and technologies—is now available to the public, giving researchers around the world a new free tool.
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Missing rebound: Youth drug use defies expectations, continues historic decline
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Adolescent drug use continued to drop in 2024, building on and extending the historically large decreases that occurred during the pandemic onset in 2020.
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The University of Michigan School of Information was awarded a $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to expand the Detroit Neighborhood Entrepreneurs Project’s Community Tech Worker (CTW) program from the eastside to Detroit’s northwest side by partnering with Live6 Alliance....
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How our view of science changes: Study tracks attitudes from adolescence to adulthood
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Science fascinates us as children and challenges us as adults, a 33-year study by University of Michigan researchers reveals.
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Not so simple machines: Cracking the code for materials that can learn
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It's easy to think that machine learning is a completely digital phenomenon, made possible by computers and algorithms that can mimic brain-like behaviors. But the first machines were analog and now, a small but growing body of research is showing that mechanical systems are capable of learning, to
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Battery-like computer memory keeps working above 1000°F
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Computer memory could one day withstand the blazing temperatures in fusion reactors, jet engines, geothermal wells and sweltering planets using a new solid-state memory device developed by a team of engineers led by the University of Michigan.
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The first book to attempt to provide a framework for analyzing disability through the ages, Henri-Jacques Stiker's now classic A History of Disability traces the history of western cultural responses ...
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Burned rice hulls could help batteries store more charge
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New research finds hard carbon in rice hull ash, providing a cheap, domestic source of the material that can replace graphite in lithium-ion or sodium-ion battery anodes.
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Call for Papers: Special Issue on Open Research for the Humanities and Social Sciences
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Call for papers: Special Issue on Open Research for the Humanities and Social Sciences Abstract submission deadline: 30 January 2025 In recent years, research production and communication in the biological …
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How Can Organizations Support Women to Identify as Leaders?
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As Lee Cunningham and Ashford explore in their new article, “When Qualified Women Resist the Leader Label,” the "Leader-Identity/Competence Paradox" is observed in various data points.
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"Virtual Hatred: How Russia Tried to Start a Race War in the United Sta" by William J. Aceves
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During the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the Russian government engaged in a sophisticated strategy to influence the U.S. political system and manipulate American democracy. While most news reports have focused on the cyber-attacks aimed at Democratic Party leaders and possible contacts...
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New textbook teaches students about matrix methods and their real world applications
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Linear Algebra for Data Science, Machine Learning, and Signal Processing, written by ECE Professors Jeffrey Fessler and Raj Nadakuditi, provides an accessible and interactive guide to matrix methods.
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"Racial Purges" by Robert L. Tsai
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Review of Beth Lew-Williams' The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America.
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Hacking the Vote: It’s Easier Than You Think
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Alex Halderman has made a career studying electronic voting security.
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Digital Advocacy Journalism’s Push for the Narrative Tipping Point of Singapore’s Capital Punishment
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A narrative tipping point leading to the abolition of capital punishment will come from specific events and broader trends that move public opinion and the accompanying legal systems away from the justification for death penalties. Through Singapore’s independent digital journalist Kirsten Han’s...
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Up to 30% of the power used to train AI is wasted: Here's how to fix it
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A less wasteful way to train large language models, such as the GPT series, finishes in the same amount of time for up to 30% less energy, according to a new study from the University of Michigan.
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Evidence mounts for dark energy from black holes
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Almost 14 billion years ago, at the very beginning of the Big Bang, a mysterious energy drove an exponential expansion of the infant universe and produced all known matter, according to the prevailing inflationary universe theory.
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Seeing a black hole's jet in a new light
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Research led by the University of Michigan has pored over more than two decades' worth of data from NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory to show there's new knotty science to discover around black holes.
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JWST finds first exotic 'steam world' shrouded in water vapor
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Nearly 100 light years away, there's a planet unlike any we've seen before. The planet, known as GJ 9827 d, is roughly twice the size of Earth and has an atmosphere composed almost entirely of water vapor, according to a new study.
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A 'worrying confluence' of flood risk, social vulnerability and climate change denial
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In certain parts of the United States, especially Appalachia, New England and the Northwest, the ability of residents to prepare for and respond to flooding is being undercut on three different levels.
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Editors’ Gloss: The Problem with Monolingualism in Academic Knowledge Production
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The fight for evidence-based election security
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The work of J. Alex Halderman, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Michigan, has made the U.S. election system more secure—largely by uncovering vulnerabilities in equipment like voting machines and ballot scanners, and by advocating for best practices and technologi
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Revisiting “Structuring and Supporting UX Work in Academic Libraries”
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In 2020, Weave published my research article, “Structuring and Supporting UX Work in Academic Libraries” (https://doi.org/10.3998/weave.12535642.0003.202). In it, I examined various ways that academic libraries structure and support user experience (UX) work, and I identified some structures and...
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March 12, 1980 (vol. 90, iss. 126) - Image 1
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Image 1 of 8 from the March 12, 1980 (vol. 90, iss. 126) publication of The Michigan Daily.
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Publishing Beyond the Market argues that the move to open access should focus less on the free accessibility of research outputs and more on who controls the publications and infrastructures for scholarly ...
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First data from XRISM space mission provides new perspective on supermassive black holes
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Some of the first data from an international space mission is confirming decades worth of speculation about the galactic neighborhoods of supermassive black holes. More exciting than the data, though, is the fact that the long-awaited satellite behind it—the X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission or
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Research assessment is a major driver of research behavior. The current emphasis on journal citations in a limited number of journals with an English focus has multiple effects. The need to publish in English even when it is not the local language affects the type of research undertaken and...
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This screen stores and displays encrypted images without electronics
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It uses magnetic fields to display images at the same resolution as a squid's color-changing skin.
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Free, open course in equitable stage makeup and hair
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The University of Michigan is addressing long-standing equity issues in the performing arts by offering a free, open course in stage makeup and hair for all skin tones and hair textures.
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This screen stores and displays encrypted images without electronics
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A flexible screen inspired, in part, by squid can store and display encrypted images like a computer—using magnetic fields rather than electronics. The device is described in Advanced Materials and was made in the labs of Joerg Lahann, the Wolfgang Pauli Collegiate Professor of Chemical Engineering,
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U-M opens Mcity test environment for connected and driverless vehicles
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The University of Michigan today opened Mcity, the world's first controlled environment specifically designed to test the potential of connected and automated vehicle technologies that will lead the way to mass-market driverless cars.
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Michigan Micro Mote (M3) makes history as the world’s smallest computer
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A brief history of what led to the technical feat known as the Michigan Micro Mote, a tiny speck of a computer that does it all.
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Pioneering Vision: U-M BME Researchers Focus on Retinal Prosthesis Technology - BME
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With an ultimate goal of restoring sight, their research is a collaboration that builds on Dr. Weiland’s experience with retinal prosthesis and Dr. Chestek’s work with carbon fiber neural electrodes, to create a sophisticated electronic device designed to stimulate the retina and restore usable...
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Benjamin Kuipers receives Herbert A. Simon Prize for Advances in Cognitive Systems
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The award recognizes Kuipers’ lifetime achievements in AI and robotics research.
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Code-switching is frequently considered a required skill for Black Americans, whether it’s a motorist adopting a more deferential tone during a traffic stop or a new employee straightening her hair.
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Human Rights Advocacy and the History of Human Rights Standards » Enforced Disappearances
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The Human Rights Advocacy and the History of Human Rights Standards website is part of a larger project exploring the development and evolution of international human rights policy.
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In six new rogue worlds, Webb Telescope finds more star birth clues
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A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope spectroscopic survey of NGC1333. Image credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Scholz, K. Muzic, A. Langeveld, R. Jayawardhana Study: The JWST/NIRISS Deep Spectroscopic Survey for Young Brown Dwarfs and Free-Floating Planets (DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2408.1263
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LZ experiment sets new record in search for dark matter
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One of the greatest puzzles in the universe is figuring out the nature of dark matter, the invisible substance that makes up most of the mass in our universe. New results from the world's most sensitive dark matter detector, LUX-ZEPLIN, have narrowed down possibilities for one of the leading dark m
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A leaky sink: Carbon emissions from forest soil will likely grow with rising temperatures
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The soils of northern forests are key reservoirs that help keep the carbon dioxide that trees inhale and use for photosynthesis from making it back into the atmosphere.
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Holocaust survivor, peace activist receives Germany’s highest civilian honor
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Irene Butter, a pioneering professor emerita in the School of Public Health, has educated German audiences for years about the Holocaust and genocide. At U-M, she co-founded the Raoul Wallenberg Medal and Lecture series. In Ann Arbor, she co-created an Arab/Jewish women's dialogue group with the mot
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Houses – Notion Archaeological Project
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Excavation of house west of agora Residential life will be a major focus of the current project. It is clear that a new city plan was established at Notion in the early or mid-third century BC, and that the city was substantially abandoned by the mid-first century AD. But the details of both the growth…
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Mass extinction 66 million years ago triggered rapid evolution of bird genomes
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Shortly after an asteroid slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, life for non-avian dinosaurs ended, but the evolutionary story for the early ancestors of birds began.
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A team of researchers led by a University of Michigan archaeologist has uncovered a hoard of gold coins, likely used to pay mercenary troops, buried in a small pot in the ancient Greek city of Notion in western Turkey.
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What have we learned from the ANES?
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Over 75 years, the ANES has brought dynamics and trends in American politics to light, changing what we know about voters and their decisions at the polls.
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National champs: U-Michigan Solar Car Team takes first in American Solar Challenge
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After a major setback, the students' indomitable spirits and another team's generosity propelled them to the finish.
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The corona is weirdly hot—Parker Solar Probe rules out one explanation
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S-shaped bends in the sun's magnetic field don't form at the sun's surface, like some scientists thought, and can't directly heat the sun's corona.
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The corona is weirdly hot—Parker Solar Probe rules out one explanation
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By diving into the sun's corona, NASA's Parker Solar Probe has ruled out S-shaped bends in the sun's magnetic field as a cause of the corona's searing temperatures, according to University of Michigan research published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
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Children who contracted a viral infection known as congenital cytomegalovirus in utero may be nearly two and half times more likely to be diagnosed with autism, a study suggests. Congenital CMV is the most common congenital infection in the United States, affecting one in every 200 babies. Megan...
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