A new study from University of Michigan climate researchers concludes that some of the latest-generation climate models may be overly sensitive to carbon dioxide increases and therefore project future warming that is unrealistically ...
Environment
Apr 30, 2020
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In about a fifth of the cases of Parkinson's disease, look to a small, malfunctioning protein in the lysosome as a risk factor, say University of Michigan researchers.
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 23, 2022
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It doesn't take a village to raise a child after all, according to University of Michigan research.
Social Sciences
Sep 9, 2011
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A new study from University of Michigan researchers challenges the widely held assumption that biofuels such as ethanol and biodiesel are inherently carbon neutral.
Earth Sciences
Aug 25, 2016
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For more than a century, brightly banded and sometimes deadly coral snakes have been held up as textbook examples of a mimicry system shaped by evolution, in which a harmless species deters predators by imitating a harmful ...
Plants & Animals
May 6, 2016
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The Great Depression had a silver lining: During that hard time, U.S. life expectancy actually increased by 6.2 years, according to a University of Michigan study published in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National ...
Social Sciences
Sep 28, 2009
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A shock-absorbing football helmet system being developed at the University of Michigan could blunt some dangerous physics that today's head protection ignores.
Engineering
Feb 9, 2016
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The results of a high-profile Fermilab physics experiment involving a University of Michigan professor appear to confirm strange 20-year-old findings that poke holes in the standard model, suggesting the ...
General Physics
Nov 2, 2010
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A new class of coatings that sheds ice effortlessly from even large surfaces has moved researchers closer to their decades-long goal of ice-proofing cargo ships, airplanes, power lines and other large structures.
Materials Science
Apr 25, 2019
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The first room-temperature light detector that can sense the full infrared spectrum has the potential to put heat vision technology into a contact lens.
Nanophysics
Mar 16, 2014
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