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June 2008 | Home
Those of us fretting about wrinkles and lines on our faces can take heart from a study that finds some — though not all — anti-wrinkle tricks actually help.
Why should we love words like 'quark' or 'muon,' which most of us will never really understand?
Big stars, no stars. High-quality or dreadful. It doesn't matter. Virtually all the recent films about war have flopped. Why?
An updated master plan for North Campus is part of a long-term effort to make North Campus more lively, livable and sustainable.
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On a wild night in 1971, Ann Arbor’s "king of the hippies" brought John Lennon and the FBI to Crisler Arena.
A promise and a passion for the environment led Liz Elling into the water — literally. She swam hundreds of miles through Lake Michigan and down the Huron River in order to bring attention and resources to protecting clean water.
Angry and anxious voters tend to tune into the presidential race but their strong emotions might actually distract them from paying attention to the facts.
The University of Michigan's Life Sciences Institute is launching a novel program to shepherd promising biomedical discoveries from the lab bench to the marketplace. Called the Innovation Partnership, it uses philanthropic gifts to bridge the critical funding gap — known to biomedical researchers and venture capitalists as the Valley of Death — between laboratory discovery and commercialization.
A new U-M study suggests that extra iron for infants who don't need it might delay development, results that fuel the debate over optimal iron supplement levels and could have huge implications for the baby formula and food industry. "For us to find this result is a big deal, it's really unexpected," said U-M's Dr. Betsy Lozoff. 
University of Michigan researchers and their colleagues recently hastened the end for nearly 7,000 mature aspen and birch trees at the Biological Station in northern Michigan. Why would they do such a thing?
University of Michigan simulations correctly predicted that the pulsed jets of the Mars Phoenix lander would strip the soil to the subsurface ice or rock as the craft touched down. (Includes video.)
Countries with greater equality between women and men are more economically stable and peaceful, says U-M researcher Cindy Schipani.
U-M computer scientists developed open-source software that drastically cuts the time to find symmetries. The real-world payoff is huge. "If you ask a computer to put 20 trains on 19 tracks, this computation may take forever," says U-M's Igor Markov said. "But if you use an approach with symmetry breaking, these cases can be solved in seconds."
