Category: Features
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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.
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Prepping for the revolution
University of Michigan engineers are working to make our electrified future more equitable and avoid the mistakes of the past.
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How to make the robot revolution serve the people
In the midst of outfitting a new building, Michigan roboticists shape a world where robots empower, instead of imperil, our humanity.
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The Future of Lasers
Story by Colin Barras
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A face that looks like mine
Engineering is a field that remains stubbornly white and male. NextProf is designed to change that.
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We’re doing ethanol wrong
Is there a way to get biofuels right?
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A view beyond
A Hubble Space Telescope technician shares decades of breathtaking images.
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Built by humans. Ruled by computers.
In the world of humans, Brian Russell is a regular blue-collar guy. Stocky with a shaved head, black-rimmed glasses and a tightly trimmed Van Dyke, he pulls down steady hours at his job installing security systems. Every night, he drives his old green Jeep home to a freshly planted subdivision of modest ranch houses outside
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Putting the AI in aviation
Persuading a field to face its future