Category: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering
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International Antarctic glacier study focuses on sea level changes
Bi-national study involving UM researcher will aid predictive models.
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Recreating supernova reaction yields new insights for fusion energy
Our pursuit of fusion needs a heat-check
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Key Parker Solar Probe sensor bests sun simulator—last launch hurdle
With old IMAX projector bulbs, Michigan Engineers simulate the sun.
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Record-breaking second place for Solar Car Team
The national champions celebrate the most successful world race finish in team history.
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Solar storm: U-M model’s predictions ‘a remarkable achievement’
A space weather tool Michigan Engineers developed was used to produce animations that show predictions of how the recent storm would distort Earth’s magnetic field.
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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.