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New water purification technology helps turn seawater into drinking water without tons of chemicals
Water desalination plants could replace expensive chemicals with new carbon cloth electrodes that remove boron from seawater, an important step of turning seawater into safe drinking water.
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‘Unprecedented’ level of control allows person without use of limbs to operate virtual quadcopter
A brain-computer interface, surgically placed in a research participant with tetraplegia, paralysis in all four limbs, provided an unprecedented level of control over a virtual quadcopter—just by thinking about moving his unresponsive fingers.
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Getting the most out of cosmic maps
Research led by the University of Michigan could help put cosmology on the inside track to reaching the full potential of telescopes and other instruments studying some of the universe's largest looming questions.
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Michigan Minds podcast: Fixing a broken health care system can help heal ailments, stem frustrations
Pamela Herd is the Carol Kakalec Kohn professor of social policy at the Ford School of Public Policy and a faculty associate at the Institute for Social Research's Population Studies Center. Her research focuses on inequality and how it intersects with health, aging and policy.
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Trump returns to office as the first criminal president—but for how long?
Will Thomas, assistant professor of business law at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, has been keenly and carefully following the legal twists and turns surrounding Donald Trump.
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TikTok ban: U-M experts can comment
University of Michigan experts are available to discuss the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to uphold a federal law banning TikTok on national security grounds beginning Sunday, unless the popular video app is sold by ByteDance, its China-based parent company.
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NCAA to begin paying for women’s basketball success
The NCAA has announced that Division I conferences will receive payment the longer their teams stay in the NCAA women's basketball March Madness tournament. This money will then flow into colleges and universities in the conferences, according to Richard Paulsen, assistant professor of sport management at the U-M School of Kinesiology.
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8 U-M researchers win PECASE awards
Eight University of Michigan researchers have received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor the U.S. government bestows on scientists and engineers beginning their independent research careers.
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Digital lifeline: High-speed internet linked to drop in COVID-19 death rates
The mortality rate from COVID-19 was about 50% lower in U.S. counties with higher internet access in the summer and early fall of 2020.
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Extreme rain heightens E. coli risks for communities of color in Texas
Nobody wants to share a day on the water with E. coli. The bacteria is a sure sign of fecal contamination, which is washed into waterways from farm fields or sewage systems by rain. The microbes are also dangerous—exposure to E. coli can lead to illness, hospitalization and even death.
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Trump to set administration agenda in inaugural address
Donald Trump will give his second inaugural address Jan. 20 after being sworn into office for another presidential term.
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$5M to improve testing, durability and noise levels of wave energy devices, offshore wind
Devices that create electricity from wave motion and offshore winds could become sturdier, quieter and easier to test at near-ocean-ready sizes, with four new grants to the University of Michigan.
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College tuition aid program delivers high marks for value but strives to reach more who qualify
One of Michigan's largest financial aid programs offers great promise in boosting college affordability as well as the number of college graduates—with room to reach many more who qualify for it.
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