Older adults don’t have to accept the loss of strength and muscle. Even people in their 70s and 80s can build “significant strength improvement” with simple exercises.

In a surprise discovery that overturns a century-old tenet of physics, U-M professor Stephen Rand and his team found that a light field can generate magnetic effects that are 100 million times stronger than previously expected. The discovery could lead to a revolution in solar power.

The blitzkrieg advance of two closely related species of mussels—the zebra and quagga—is stripping the lakes of their life-supporting algae, resulting in a remarkable ecological transformation and threatening the multibillion-dollar U.S. commercial and recreational Great Lakes fisheries.

Recent advances by U-M researchers are significant milestones in the march toward millimeter-scale computing, believed to be the next electronics frontier.

So says a U-M study that looks at whether it’s best to start regular screening at 40 or 50.

Some orthodontists may be exposing young patients to unnecessary radiation when they order 3-D X-ray imaging for simple orthodontic cases before considering traditional 2-D imaging.

Ask cohabiting men and women, and you get very different views about what their relationship means and where it’s going.

Young people who are overexposed to antibacterial soaps containing triclosan may suffer more allergies, a U-M study suggests. It also found that exposure to BPA may cause health problems for adults.

“Americans have long been viewed as exceptionally religious compared to other nations in the developed world,” says a U-M researcher. But new findings suggest that Americans might not actually attend church as often as they say they do.