A three-year project funded by a $1 million grant aims to equip bipedal walking robots with the technology to trek in areas that are too dangerous for humans, including collapsed buildings and other disaster areas.

Researchers recently identified the state’s earliest archaeological site: a 13,000-year-old Clovis camp on a Southwest Michigan farm. The site is likely the northwestern-most Clovis settlement in the Great Lakes region.

Researchers recently ranked more than 5,800 foods by their nutritional disease burden to humans and their impact on the environment. Small changes in diet – fewer hot dogs, more nuts – could help you live healthier, more sustainably.

Children caused an average of 8,100 fires in American structures – including homes, schools, and other buildings – each year between 2014-18. Arson is the criminal act with the largest proportion of juvenile arrests in the U.S.; on average, 50 percent have been younger than 18.

Follow Michigan researchers deep into (and above) the Amazon as they collect data, day by day and tree by tree, that could drive a better understanding of the Earth’s climate future.

A national survey of primary caretakers of teenagers found 10% of all households with high school-age teens reported buying a firearm in the early months of the pandemic. One in seven of the households that purchased a gun also had a teen with depression, researchers found.

Data from use of virtual visits with health providers show disparities in access, use, and attitudes before and during the pandemic.

Researchers propose that increasing day length on the early Earth may have boosted the amount of oxygen released by photosynthetic cyanobacteria, changing the planetary rotation rate.

By being open about what they were experiencing, and not “toughing it out” or stifling their feelings like generations of athletes have had to do, Simone Biles, Naomi Osaka, and others did more than spare themselves injury or defeat.