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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Censored Planet could provide new insight into the flow of online information
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The US has been stuck on corn kernels for producing ethanol, rather than woody “cellulosic” material. Efficient microbes for converting cellulose to biofuel could change the game.
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We’ve been promised all kinds of benefits from a future of connected vehicles, but flood control?
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The new prototype cells can run for more than 100 cycles at 90 percent capacity and withstand hard impacts and even stabbing.
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Competition and cooperation, which regulate the strengthening and weakening of connections in the brain, can now be modeled directly.
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New sustainability research garners support from Department of Energy’s Solar Energy Technologies Office.
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The new $2.5 million endowment to support a professorship is the second U-M sponsorship from Toyota
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Subscription service offers real-time monitoring
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In ESA’s BepiColombo mission, an examination of the particles in Mercury’s upper atmosphere will shed light on what the planet is made of.
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