Science and Technology
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Everybody walk the dinosaur
As experts prepare to move the Museum of Natural History, they reimagine the visitor experience.
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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.
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U-M pioneers new walking robot
New bot is loosely modeled on the cassowary, a flightless bird with backward-facing knees.
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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.
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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.
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Into the woods
From bobcats to badgers and fawns to foxes, U-M camera-trap project captures hundreds of thousands of Michigan wildlife selfies.
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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.
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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.
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Dig this
Thumb-area teachers help U-M paleontologists excavate prehistoric mastodon bones, which could be 13,000 years old.