It’s said that water covers 70% of the earth, and former U-M cornerback Charles Woodson covers the rest. Now Woodson’s presence is even stronger in the halls of U-M’s Mott Children’s Hospital: he can appear on your iPad or iPhone in 3-D when you point it at a special jersey hanging on the wall.

Study: They’ve been stereotyped as a bunch of insecure, angst-ridden, underachievers. But most members of Generation X are leading active, balanced, and happy lives.

From even before the all-Wolverine crew of Apollo 15, the U-M College of Engineering has played a key role in American space flight.

Skewed skulls may have helped early whales discriminate the direction of sounds in water and are not solely, as previously thought, a later adaptation related to echolocation.

“On Earth, everywhere there’s liquid water, there is microbial life,” says U-M professor Nilton Renno. He’s the scientist who discovered liquid water droplets on Mars, and he’s now leading a project to explore pockets of very salty, liquid water on the red planet. It might be the best bet for finding microbial life beyond Earth.

A robot in a University of Michigan lab can run like a human—a feat that represents the height of agility and efficiency for a two-legged machine. “It’s stunning,” says professor Jessy Grizzle. “I have never seen a machine doing a motion like this.”

People who give, live longer, studies have shown. Now, a new study shows that why people volunteer—not whether they volunteer—is what really counts.

“In the African villages that I study in Mali, children fare as well in nuclear families as they do in extended families,” says U-M professor Beverly Strassmann.

Wise folks say that wisdom can only be earned by experience, but new research indicates that there might be a way to develop your capacity to make wise decisions.