Science and Technology
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Live public street cams track social distancing
A University of Michigan startup is tracking social distancing behaviors in real time at some of the most visited places in the world.
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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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Flattening the curve for COVID-19
History shows that taking strong steps now to slow the spread of coronavirus will help communities and individuals. How can you help?
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“Alexa, let’s chat!”
A U-M team is advancing conversational AI to find whether speaking with an inhuman entity could be equally, if not more, fruitful and enjoyable than engaging with a fellow human.
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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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Producing ‘green methane’ with artificial photosynthesis
A solar-powered catalyst uses artificial photosynthesis to turn carbon dioxide into methane. We could be recycling smokestack CO2 within 5-10 years, researchers say.
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‘We’re missing something fundamental about the sun’
First data from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission has implications for space weather prediction and Earth’s power grid.