Michigan Engineering | University of Michigan The power goes out. The aurorae stretch to the tropics. Could a major solar storm mean a year without electricity?
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Lights Out
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Bringing Braille back with better display technology
It’s slow to read computer screens with today’s Braille displays, and the 200-year-old code is declining in use. New technology from Michigan Engineering aims to help bring Braille back.
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Star Wars tech: How far are we? Chewie gets answers
Chewie talks to experts about spacecraft thrusters, light sabers, droids, carbonite and holograms.
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Distinguished lecturer embarks on water quality talk tour
Nancy Love, professor of civil & environmental engineering, embarks on a year-long water quality talk tour as a distinguished lecturer for the Association of Environmental Engineering & Science Professors Foundation.
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Cancer “decoy” shows potential for breast cancer treatment
A small, implantable device that researchers are calling a cancer “super-attractor” could eventually give doctors an early warning of relapse in breast cancer patients and even slow the disease’s spread to other organs in the body.
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Designing intelligence
Can we create machines who learn like we do?
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Sara Pozzi
Sara Pozzi learned about the Manhattan Project in middle school and it sparked a lifelong fascination that has shaped her career.
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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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