It was believed that running more propellant through a Hall thruster would wreck its efficiency, but new experiments suggest they might power a crewed mission to Mars.
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And that tracks with the way our motor circuits work—we’re not that complicated.
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Elaheh Ahmadi, David Blaauw, Michael Flynn, Hun-Seok Kim, Hessam Mahdavifar, and Zhengya Zhang bring their expertise and creativity to this nationwide undertaking in the area of semiconductors and information & communication technologies.
Withstanding high temperatures and the light of 160 suns, a new catalyst is ten times more efficient than previous sun-powered water-splitting devices of its kind.
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Dr. Mehdi Saligane, a leader in the open-source chip design community, was among the first researchers to fabricate a successful chip as part of Google’s multi-project wafer program.
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The ability to accurately detect where X-rays land and in what dose could reduce the collateral damage from radiation therapy.
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When a person’s cognitive function is highly variable, they’re likely to be more infectious and have more symptoms after exposure to a respiratory virus.
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A Ph.D. student shares his remarkable path from Cuba to chemical engineering at U-M.
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U-M alum will return to Materials Science and Engineering January 1
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Experiments with custom-made biologging devices offer new insight into dolphin swimming and energy requirements.
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