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Explaining a supernova's 'string of pearls'

Physicists often turn to the Rayleigh-Taylor instability to explain why fluid structures form in plasmas, but that may not be the full story when it comes to the ring of hydrogen clumps around supernova 1987A, research from the University of...
13-Mar-2024 12:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Auto industry deadlines loom for impaired-driver detection tech, U-M offers a low-cost solution

Cameras similar to those already on newer model cars, combined with facial recognition tools, could read the "tells" of impairment in the face and upper body of a driver, University of Michigan engineers have shown.
1-Mar-2024 11:05 AM EST Add to Favorites

Improving traffic signal timing with a handful of connected vehicles

With GPS data from as little as 6% of vehicles on the road, University of Michigan researchers can recalibrate traffic signals to significantly reduce congestion and delays at intersections.
20-Feb-2024 11:00 AM EST Add to Favorites

Is lung cancer treatment working? This chip can tell from a blood draw

Using a chip to process blood samples, doctors can monitor the amount of cancer cells in a patient's blood to determine how well a treatment is working by the fourth week, according to a new University of Michigan study.
29-Jan-2024 10:05 AM EST Add to Favorites

Off-road autonomy: U-M's Automotive Research Center funded with $100 million through 2028

The U.S. Army has extended its long-running relationship with the University of Michigan's Automotive Research Center, reaching a new five-year, agreement of up to $100 million to boost work on autonomous vehicle technologies.
24-Jan-2024 11:05 AM EST Add to Favorites

Bulky additives could make cheaper solar cells last longer

An insight into preventing perovskite semiconductors from degrading quickly, discovered at the University of Michigan, could help enable solar cells estimated to be two to four times cheaper than today's thin-film solar panels.
11-Jan-2024 1:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

Feeling lonely? Chances are you lost both social support, personal control

While the holiday season typically brings joy, cheer and celebration, a significant number of people feel lonely.
12-Dec-2023 3:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

Biases in large image-text AI model favor wealthier, Western perspectives

In a study evaluating the bias in OpenAI's CLIP, a model that pairs text and images and operates behind the scenes in the popular DALL-E image generator, University of Michigan researchers found that CLIP performs poorly on images that portray...
8-Dec-2023 10:05 AM EST Add to Favorites


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Solar flares: U-M experts highlight gaps preventing accurate predictions of impacts around Earth

The recent spike of activity from the sun occurred during what NASA has dubbed the Heliophysics Big Year—a celebration of solar science centered on the April 8 total eclipse, the last that will be visible from the continental U.S. for 20 years.
28-Feb-2024 9:00 AM EST

How will the pending budget bill reduce drug prices for Americans?

The Inflation Reduction Act contains provisions that are expected to lower drug costs for millions of Americans by allowing Medicare to negotiate some drug prices and by limiting the amount of out-of-pocket drug costs for Medicare Part D patients.
9-Aug-2022 1:30 PM EDT

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