Category: Features
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Building curious machines
We know more about Mars than our own oceans and lakes. Could artificial intelligence provide answers?
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Unbreakable bonds
The properties of PFAS are so great that we have used these chemicals widely—so widely that now they contaminate our water, our air, our land and our bodies. What can we do about it? Engineers have some ideas, although it’s not going to be easy.
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Onto something
Amy Cohn’s unconventional approach to solving healthcare problems starts with students. It’s an approach that is gaining ground—at Michigan Medicine and beyond.
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Engineers are made on student teams
How student teams turn concrete, lumber and grit into more than the sum of their parts.
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When climate change hits home
How an organization led by U-M is helping small-town America plan for a warming world.
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The box that rocked the universe
Meet the U-M researcher who helped pioneer the CubeSat—and a new era in space exploration.
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This bot’s got game
Building a ball-chucking, bar-climbing, battle-ready robot in 72 hours.
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Engineering tough
Michigan engineering alum Linda Zhang has the daunting task of bringing America’s bestselling vehicle into the electric age.
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Remodeling the construction industry
Could human-robot collaboration revitalize an outmoded business model and attract new workers?
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Answers Inc. – A brief history of U-M’s Space Physics Research Laboratory
For 75 years, SPRL has sent instruments skyward to help us better understand Earth, space, our sun and more.
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Her fight for your rights
Could censorship end the internet as we know it? Not if Roya Ensafi can help it.