Author: Derek Smith
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Unlocking ocean power: $3.6M for community-centric wave energy converters
Wave energy could power millions of homes, but to make a splash in the industry, the tech must balance engineering, socio-economic and environmental trade-offs.
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Electric vehicle lessons cruise into Michigan classrooms
New curriculum in U-M professor’s digital education platform introduces K-8 students throughout Michigan to jobs in one of the state’s emerging industries.
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This screen stores and displays encrypted images without electronics
It uses magnetic fields to display images at the same resolution as a squid’s color-changing skin.
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The bumpy road to greatness
A rough 2024 season sparks frustration—but also leadership and learning—for the Michigan Baja team.
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Morphable materials: Researchers coax nanoparticles to reconfigure themselves
It’s a step toward smart coatings that change color—or other properties—on the fly.
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The corona is weirdly hot—Parker Solar Probe rules out one explanation
S-shaped bends in the sun’s magnetic field don’t form at the sun’s surface, like some scientists thought, and can’t directly heat the sun’s corona.
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U-M solar car team returns to the American Solar Challenge
For the first time since 2018, the University of Michigan solar car team will stake their claim as one of the nation’s best.
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Sea ice’s cooling power is waning faster than its area of extent
A shift in Antarctica’s melting trends and slushy Arctic ice pushes warming from changing sea ice toward the upper limits of climate model estimates.
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You’re just a stick figure to this camera
The anonymity could reduce unnecessary surveillance in an age of smart devices.
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Nanoscale engineering brings light-twisting materials to more extreme settings
New manufacturing method builds tougher materials that were previously considered useless for twisting light into more robust optical devices.
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Managing screen time by making phones slightly more annoying to use
Delaying a phone’s swiping and tapping functions forces users to think harder, making it easier for them to consider whether to keep scrolling.
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New $14.5M center to help US Navy overcome emerging challenges
The center will connect faculty, students, postdocs and US Navy engineers, building a community to find cutting-edge solutions to naval and marine engineering issues.