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Great Lakes flood prevention: Report recommends mitigation steps
Broken pumps weren’t the main problem in Detroit’s 2021 floods—there was more rainfall than the water systems could handle.
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Studying Earth’s defenses against solar storms
NASA undertakes a comprehensive look at a critical atmospheric buffer between us and the sun, powered in part by University of Michigan researchers and alumni.
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Open source platform enables research on privacy-preserving machine learning
Virtual assortment of user devices provides a realistic training environment for distributed machine learning, protects privacy by learning where data lives.
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Toward manufacturing semitransparent solar cells the size of windows
A peel-off patterning technique could enable more fragile organic semiconductors to be manufactured into semitransparent solar panels at scale.
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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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$5.1M to advance nuclear energy awarded to U-M
The Department of Energy will support research into better heat exchangers as well as improved predictions for neutron physics and radiation damage.
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Machine learning begins to understand the human gut
The new computer model accurately predicts the behavior of millions of microbial communities from hundreds of experiments, an advance toward precision medicine.
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Solar-powered chemistry uses carbon dioxide and water to make feedstock for fuels, chemicals
Producing synthesis gas, a precursor of a variety of fuels and chemicals, no longer requires natural gas, coal or biomass.
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‘Fake’ data helps robots learn the ropes faster
A way to expand training data sets for manipulation tasks improves the performance of robots by 40% or more
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New approach reduces EV battery testing time by 75%
System developed at the University of Michigan saves time and money in the race to create better batteries for the electric vehicle revolution