Science and Technology

  1. Everybody walk the dinosaur

    As experts prepare to move the Museum of Natural History, they reimagine the visitor experience.

  2. Not your father's time capsule

    Students prepare to launch a time capsule into orbit to mark U-M’s bicentennial. The plan is to retrieve it in 100 years.

  3. U-M pioneers new walking robot

    New bot is loosely modeled on the cassowary, a flightless bird with backward-facing knees.

  4. Power to the pixel

    In 1988, while most of the digital technology we take for granted was unknown, a revolutionary software named Photoshop began to develop at U-M.

  5. A visionary collaboration

    U-M students are partnering with a tech-savvy blind teen to help other blind and visually impaired people navigate the world.

  6. Into the woods

    From bobcats to badgers and fawns to foxes, U-M camera-trap project captures hundreds of thousands of Michigan wildlife selfies.

  7. It's all in your head

    Forget the fiction, this is pure science fact! U-M startup Neurable has developed a system that can detect brain wave activity and turn it into action.

  8. MARLO vs. U-M's Wave Field

    HBO’s “Westworld” about a theme park populated by lifelike robots may be pure fiction, the science part is making great strides.

  9. Dig this

    Thumb-area teachers help U-M paleontologists excavate prehistoric mastodon bones, which could be 13,000 years old.