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An invisible mask? Wearable air curtain, treated to kill viruses, blocks 99.8% of aerosols
Headworn tech from U-M startup could protect agricultural and industrial workers from airborne pathogens.
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Christopher Ruf
Ruf directs the Remote Sensing group at Michigan, building instruments and developing algorithms that give us information about earth’s weather and climate collected from vantage points in space.
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Mercury MESSENGER nears epic mission end
A spacecraft that carries a sensor built at the University of Michigan is about to crash into the planet closest to the sun — just as NASA intended.
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High-tech robotics center coming to U-Michigan
The U-M Board of Regents approved the College of Engineering’s new robotics building project on April 16. The three-story, 100,000-square-foot facility is slated for Hayward Street just east of the Space Research Building on North Campus.
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Peecycling
In the first large-scale pilot project of its kind in the nation, researchers tested whether they could safely make fertilizer for food crops out of disinfected human urine.
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Peecycling: Beyond flush and forget
In the first large-scale pilot project of its kind in the nation, the researchers are testing whether they can safely make fertilizer for food crops out of disinfected human urine.
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Which Way to Mars?
Is a trip to Mars closer today, or as far away as ever?
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Lecture offers a planetary scientist’s tour through the solar system
The son of Hungarian Holocaust survivors, Tamas Gombosi took an unlikely path to his post as an eminent space scientist at U-M.
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In our image
How and why we make machines that move like us.
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True Believers
By Randy Milgrom In the streets and at the Diag, flags and banners fly. In the dormitories, at fraternities and sororities, in random houses and apartments—and inside and outside the bars and restaurants—teeming crowds roam with charged expectation. All around town, and all across campus, students thump to a bass-heavy beat. “Game Day,” laughs Samantha…
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Life, Engineered
She’s been called the hidden hand in the movement that enabled smartphones, PCs and the very fabric of Silicon Valley.