Category: Research
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Kirigami sensor patch for shoulders could improve injury recovery, athletic training
Low-cost sensors could one day enable patients to log exercise and track progress in a smartphone app
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Using lasers to measure uranium enrichment
Nuclear energy and nuclear nonproliferation would both benefit from a faster, easier way to measure what proportion of uranium atoms can split.
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How opt-out organ donation could affect U.S. waiting lists
A lack of consent plays a role in preventing donation from up to 40% of otherwise eligible donors.
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Patient cancer cells reliably grow on new 3D scaffold, showing promise for precision medicine
While previous structures guessed at the environment that cells would want, the new design lets the cells build to their own specifications.
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Hard as ceramic, tough as steel
Newly discovered connection could help with designing nextgen alloys.
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Why sea level rise models have been wrong
A Q&A with Jeremy Bassis, an expert on ice dynamics and contributing author of the IPCC’s latest report.
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Roofing drone nails down shingles
Automated drone does work at the same speed as a novice roofer, researcher says.
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Most powerful laser in the US to be built at Michigan
Using extreme light to explore quantum dynamics, advance medicine and more.
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The “Magic Ratio” that could power tomorrow’s solar cells
A Q&A with Rachel Goldman
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U-M team to build synthetic neurons – first challenge in making synthetic cells
Seven U.S. research institutions look to build synthetic cells.
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Rewriting the rules for supercomputers
Machine learning will teach the world’s fastest machines to work smarter, not harder.
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Opening the black box of human development
New methods for studying embryonic development could enable better fertility treatment and prevent congenital disabilities, but they also pose tough questions.