Researchers find lower grades given to students with surnames that come later in alphabetical order
Knowing your ABCs is essential to academic success, but having a last name starting with A, B or C might also help make the grade.
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Knowing your ABCs is essential to academic success, but having a last name starting with A, B or C might also help make the grade.
Social Sciences
Apr 17, 2024
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A new University of Michigan-led international study finds that fruits and vegetables grown in urban farms and gardens have a carbon footprint that is, on average, six times greater than conventionally grown produce.
Agriculture
Jan 22, 2024
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828
The rise of oxygen levels early in Earth's history paved the way for the spectacular diversity of animal life. But for decades, scientists have struggled to explain the factors that controlled this gradual and stepwise process, ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 2, 2021
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In a solar system called TRAPPIST-1, 40 light years from the sun, seven Earth-sized planets revolve around a cold star.
Astronomy
Sep 25, 2023
0
6840
Dude, what if everything around us was just ... a hologram?
Quantum Physics
Feb 14, 2022
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2633
(PhysOrg.com) -- A dramatic and surprising magnetic effect of light discovered by University of Michigan researchers could lead to solar power without traditional semiconductor-based solar cells.
General Physics
Apr 14, 2011
19
1
In 2020, the X-ray telescope eRosita took images of two enormous bubbles extending far above and below the center of our galaxy.
Astronomy
Mar 8, 2022
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1966
When physicists need to understand the quantum mechanics that describe how atomic clocks work, how your magnet sticks to your refrigerator or how particles flow through a superconductor, they use quantum field theories.
Quantum Physics
Mar 10, 2021
6
10138
Under just the right conditions -- which involve an ultra-high-intensity laser beam and a two-mile-long particle accelerator -- it could be possible to create something out of nothing, according to University of Michigan ...
General Physics
Dec 8, 2010
120
3
For 200 years, scientists have failed to grow a common mineral in the laboratory under the conditions believed to have formed it naturally. Now, a team of researchers from the University of Michigan and Hokkaido University ...
Materials Science
Nov 23, 2023
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