Author: Nicole Casal Moore
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Live public street cams are tracking social distancing
Virtually visit (what should be) desolate intersections around the world during COVID-19.
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Guidance on decontaminating face masks: U-M researchers contribute to national effort
Collaborative website launched while U-M researchers continue advanced testing.
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A sewage surveillance effort to track COVID-19
We don’t know much about how coronaviruses move through the environment. U-M and Stanford engineers aim to change that.
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Why automakers could pivot to making ventilators
Perspective from engineers with experience in the auto industry.
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The coronavirus and class broadcasts
A professor’s experience with the 2019 polar vortex offers insight into how institutions might cope with the possible spread of the newest coronavirus.
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‘It’s like you have a hand again’
An ultra-precise mind-controlled prosthetic.
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NASA satellite offers urban carbon dioxide insights
Using data from NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2, researchers found connections between the population density of cities and how much carbon dioxide they produce per person.
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A passenger airplane will advance a U-Michigan-led satellite mission to understand climate
New Zealand plane fitted with receivers will validate CYGNSS data and improve interpretation.
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How self-driving car subsidies could carry us through the ‘dark age’ of deployment
A game-theory approach identifies which policy could support autonomous vehicles’ market penetration—and environmental benefits
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A laser pointer could hack your voice-controlled virtual assistant
Researchers identified a vulnerability that allows a microphone to ‘unwittingly listen to light as if it were sound’
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How opt-out organ donation could affect U.S. waiting lists
A lack of consent plays a role in preventing donation from up to 40% of otherwise eligible donors.
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Why sea level rise models have been wrong
A Q&A with Jeremy Bassis, an expert on ice dynamics and contributing author of the IPCC’s latest report.