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Versatile Knee Exo for Safer Lifting

A set of knee exoskeletons, built with commercially available knee braces and drone motors at the University of Michigan, has been shown to help counteract fatigue in lifting and carrying tasks. They helped users maintain better lifting posture even...
18-Sep-2024 2:00 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Auto Plants Grew Their Workforces After Transitioning to Electric Vehicle Production

U.S. auto plants producing battery electric vehicles have required a larger workforce than traditional internal combustion engine plants—a finding that runs counter to early predictions about how EVs would impact the industry.
17-Sep-2024 12:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

In Step Toward Solar Fuels, Durable Artificial Photosynthesis Setup Chains Two Carbons Together

A key step toward reusing CO2 to make sustainable fuels is chaining carbon atoms together, and an artificial photosynthesis system developed at the University of Michigan can bind two of them into hydrocarbons with field-leading performance.
17-Sep-2024 9:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

This Screen Stores and Displays Encrypted Images Without Electronics

A flexible screen inspired, in part, by squid can store and display encrypted images like a computer—using magnetic fields rather than electronics. The research is reported in Advanced Materials by University of Michigan engineers.
16-Sep-2024 1:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

New Study on Insider Trading Discovers Flaws In Oversight and Regulation

Nejat Seyhun, Jerome B. and Eileen M. York Professor of Business Administration and professor of finance, and Cindy Schipani, Merwin H. Waterman Collegiate Professor of Business Administration and professor of business law, are among the most...
22-Aug-2024 4:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

The corona is weirdly hot—Parker Solar Probe rules out one explanation

By diving into the sun's corona, NASA's Parker Solar Probe has ruled out S-shaped bends in the sun's magnetic field as a cause of the corona's searing temperatures, according to University of Michigan research published in The Astrophysical Journal...
30-Jul-2024 11:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Research suggests controversial super spikes do make runners faster

Since athletes in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics smashed multiple records in track and field, running enthusiasts and exercise physiologists have speculated on what role new-generation high-tech running spikes—sometimes called super spikes—played.
30-Jul-2024 9:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Last decade saw big decrease in teens who used commonly prescribed and misused prescription drugs

Since 2009, U.S. high school seniors have reported steep declines in medical use, misuse and availability of the three most commonly prescribed and misused controlled substances for teens, a new University of Michigan study found.
25-Jul-2024 9:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites


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Total eclipse: U-M experts leap at rare chance to view sun's atmosphere from the ground

The April 8 total eclipse will reveal the sun's outer atmosphere as a tangle of light that outlines the moon's silhouette like a crown. This image inspired the Latin name for the sun's atmosphere—the corona.
2-Apr-2024 3:05 PM EDT

What Ohtani scandal means for his career, fans and team: U-M experts can comment

University of Michigan experts are available to discuss the scandal involving Los Angeles Dodgers player Shohai Ohtani, the two-way sensation and two-time American League Most Valuable Player, and interpreter Ippei Mizuhara, who was fired for...
29-Mar-2024 12:05 PM EDT

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

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