Research News
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Federal budget cuts and worker safety
Cuts to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health has workplace safety experts such as U-M’s Richard Neitzel concerned that “without this research, more Americans will suffer preventable injuries and illnesses, businesses will face higher costs, and families will lose loved ones to workplace accidents that could have been prevented.”
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Enabling stroke victims to ‘speak’: $19M toward brain implants to be built at U-M
Marcus Foundation’s $30 million gift supports a collaboration between Stanford and U-M to help stroke victims regain the ability to read, write and speak. The scientists are using the world’s smallest computers linked up to the world’s most biocompatible sensors.
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Making desalination more eco-friendly: New membranes could help eliminate brine waste
Desalination plants, a major and growing source of freshwater in dry regions, could produce less harmful waste using electricity and new membranes made at the University of Michigan.
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Why a next-gen semiconductor doesn’t fall to pieces
A new class of semiconductors that can store information in electric fields could enable computers that run on less power, sensors with quantum precision, and the conversion of signals between electrical, optical and acoustic forms. But how they maintained two opposite electric polarizations in the same material was a mystery. Until now.
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COVID-19, 5 years on: Lingering impacts and pandemic preparedness
March 11 marked five years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. U-M experts look back on successes and failures in public health and medicine; discuss continued effects in education, business and society; and offer insights on how prepared we are for a future pandemic.
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Highly educated people face steeper mental declines after stroke
A Michigan Medicine study shows stroke survivors who have attended any level of higher education had faster declines in executive functioning — skills used to manage everyday tasks, such as working memory and problem solving — compared to patients with less than a high school degree.
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U-M astronomers peer deeper into mysterious Flame Nebula
Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a team of researchers, including astronomers from the University of Michigan, are closing in on the answer to a looming cosmic question. In probing the Flame Nebula, they’re finding out what’s the smallest celestial body that can form on its own from clouds of gas and dust in space.
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U-M astronomy will lead its first satellite mission
The project assembles a team of experts from across the country for a mission called STARI — STarlight Acquisition and Reflection toward Interferometry. The goal is to showcase the viability of a new technique for studying exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system.
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U-M microCT lab celebrates milestone with scan of a wolverine skull
For seven years, a CT scanner has been whirring away scanning specimens: snakes, lizards, frogs, bats, rodents, wasps, fish, a whole red fox, an armadillo. Recently the U-M MicroCT Scanning Laboratory completed its 10,000th scan: a 3D image of a wolverine skull, collected in British Columbia in 1948.