Category: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering
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In the wind tunnel
Novum goes in, valuable strategic data comes out.
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Don’t touch the array
Breaking a six-year stretch of using silicon solar cells, Novum is crowned with the most efficient multijunction gallium arsenide cells in team history.
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Better ingredients. Better performance.
In many ways, Novum is a product of team firsts. On the surface, its caliber of multijunction gallium arsenide solar cells and small array set it apart from anything they’ve ever built. But what’s beneath the surface is equally innovative.
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Antarctic iceberg: Researchers explain what might happen next
An iceberg the size of Delaware detached from an ice shelf in the Southern Ocean.
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Overview: Solar Car Team goes small to win big at World Solar Challenge
Meet Novum: a long, skinny, single-fairing solar car
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Solar Car virtual garage
Explore and compare the various U-M solar car designs.
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Airborne nuclear tests can mimic solar storms
Humans can influence space weather.
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New U-M Robotics Building named in honor of Ford Motor Company gift
The gift will accelerate construction.
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Students embark on 100-year space mission
A team of students will interview 1,000 members of the Michigan community and launch their stories into orbit for 100 years.
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How an Ice Age paradox could inform sea level rise predictions
The behavior of an ancient ice sheet—called Laurentide—has puzzled scientists for decades. Now, new research findings at U-M not only explain this but could also add evidence that climate change could drastically raise sea levels.
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Wunderground.com: Democratizing weather
Harnessing the early internet and bringing real-time weather to our daily lives.
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Joyce Penner
Penner develops mathematical and computer models to help us better understand what how aerosols and clouds interact and how that affects the climate.