Research News
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Researchers go all in to fight coronavirus
The University ramps up research efforts to understand and stem the effects of the global COVID-19 health crisis.
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Tracking COVID in wastewater
We don’t know much about how coronaviruses behave and move through the environment. U-M and Stanford engineers aim to change that.
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Mind control
“It’s like you have a hand again,” says Joe Hamilton, as U-M researchers amplify faint, latent signals from arm nerves to enable real-time, finger-level control of a robotic hand.
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Fumbles, flubs, clangers, and fluffs
Why do top performers often fall short of the mark when the stakes are high and the pressure is on? A U-M psychologist explains.
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Ancient beads or Stone-Age ‘likes’?
Anthropologists believe early humans exchanged eggshell beads to affirm connections and update their relationship status. Sound familiar?
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The nature of pain: Approach brings relief without opioids
U-M launches an outreach program to teach clinicians more about the different types of pain and approaches to relief that are nonaddictive and more effective than opioids.
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Can’t resist tempting food? Scientists explore why
As research in rats reveals a key brain pathway, neuroscientists contemplate how to translate findings in animals to understanding of human compulsions involving food or drugs.
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Toward a portable concussion detector that relies on an infrared laser
Doctors and engineers collaborate on a noninvasive way to measure whether brain cells are in distress using an infrared laser. The new device could enable concussions to be diagnosed on the sidelines of an athletic event.
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Can data preserve peace?
U-M political scientist J. David Singer founded the Correlates of War Project in 1963 to assess, analyze, and predict the factors that lead to wars. Ironically, the project grew out of a ‘peace studies’ program.