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Squishy, metal-free magnets to power robots and guide medical implants
Strong enough to move soft robots and medical capsules, weak enough to not ruin MRI images.
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New reactor could save millions when making ingredients for plastics and rubber from natural gas
With oil production dropping, a process using natural gas is needed to avert a shortage of a workhorse chemical used…
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Targeting multiple COVID variants through the twist in the spike protein
Particles that gum up the keys that the virus uses to enter cells could one day be an effective COVID…
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Campus & Community
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Leader in robotics at U-M and beyond elected to National Academy of Engineering
Dawn Tilbury is recognized for advances in manufacturing network control and human-robot interaction, as well as engineering leadership.
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Mariel Lavieri selected to join the New Voices program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
The U-M industrial and operations engineer is recognized for excellence in research related to human health as well as championing diversity, equity and inclusion.
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Can you hear the music: Q&A with Ann Jeffers
The CEE professor discusses her new memoir and her tortured path to where she is today.
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Research
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Bridge in a box: Unlocking origami’s power to produce load-bearing structures
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Explaining a supernova’s ‘string of pearls’
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Auto industry deadlines loom for impaired-driver detection tech, U-M offers a low-cost solution
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Human stem cells coaxed to mimic the very early central nervous system
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Improving traffic signal timing with a handful of connected vehicles
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Widely used AI tool for early sepsis detection may be cribbing doctors’ suspicions
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Leader in robotics at U-M and beyond elected to National Academy of Engineering
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Mariel Lavieri selected to join the New Voices program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
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Urine-to-fertilizer effort part of NSF Regional Innovation Engine
Features
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New energy
Once derided as “forever 30 years away,” fusion energy has a new swagger. Will it last?