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  Happy trails: Conservancy brings universal access to seven trails in northwestern Michigan

  Along M-22 in northwestern Michigan, people with mobility challenges can access breathtaking views of Lake Michigan from a 300-foot-high platform, explore rare birds and plants in a restored marsh or lose themselves in coastal dunes and forests once off-limits.

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  U-M selected as NIH research hub for nationwide effort to enhance community-led, health equity work

  With the goal of building the science that can strengthen efforts to reverse health disparities—which keep millions of Americans in poorer health due to lack of access to food, health care and other needs—the University of Michigan will receive $6.75 million from the National Institutes of Health to establish a health equity research hub.

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  U-M students partner with Brazilians to light up rural schools, design innovative incinerators

  It is early morning when a group of University of Michigan students embark on the boats in northwestern Brazil. The sun's intensity is still low, but its rays pierce the immense tree branches and reflect in the flooded forest's waters, one of the largest in the world. The sky already shines blue. "Shhh!" says native guide Tito Jonas Cavalcanti Martins, cutting the vessel engine. All must remain quiet, not moving too much to avoid interfering with the locals' routine.

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  A leaky sink: Carbon emissions from forest soil will likely grow with rising temperatures

  The soils of northern forests are key reservoirs that help keep the carbon dioxide that trees inhale and use for photosynthesis from making it back into the atmosphere.

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  Poll position: Opinion surveys still matter

  Whether it's the polls' margin of error or their fairness and accuracy, the information can become important for some voters in their election choices. And do the polls matter since the presidential winner will be determined by the Electoral College? "Yes," said Michael Traugott, University of Michigan professor emeritus of political science and communication studies, and research professor emeritus at the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research.

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  Cannabis, hallucinogen use among adults still at historic highs

  The percentages of adults using cannabis and hallucinogens over the past year stayed at historically high levels in 2023, according to the latest findings from the University of Michigan's Monitoring the Future survey.

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  U-M business expert shares insights from panel formed to examine infant formula crisis

  Researchers nationwide probed the systemic causes of the 2022 infant formula shortage, finding numerous production failures and risks exposed by the shortage, as well as recommending regulations to policymakers. Ross Professor Ravi Anupindi, vice chair of the study overseen by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, discusses the researchers' work.

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  Going for Gold: U-M experts can discuss the 2024 Paralympic Games

  The 2024 Paralympic Games will begin Aug. 28 and run through Sep. 8. University of Michigan experts are available to discuss key topics related to the games, including personal and evolution of adaptive sports at the global, national and collegiate levels.

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  In six new rogue worlds, Webb Telescope finds more star birth clues

  An international collaboration that included the University of Michigan has spotted six likely rogue worlds—objects with planetlike masses but untethered from any star’s gravity—using the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST. The discovery includes the lightest rogue planet candidate ever identified with a dusty disk around it. The elusive objects offer new evidence that the Read more

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  Gaps in firearms relinquishment laws may weaken court orders, increase illegal gun possession

  State and federal laws across the United States prohibiting firearm possession in cases of domestic violence often lack enforcement mechanisms, which may lead to continued possession of firearms despite court orders, according to a University of Michigan study.

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  LZ experiment sets new record in search for dark matter

  One of the greatest puzzles in the universe is figuring out the nature of dark matter, the invisible substance that makes up most of the mass in our universe. New results from the world's most sensitive dark matter detector, LUX-ZEPLIN, have narrowed down possibilities for one of the leading dark matter candidates: weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs.

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  Former U-M President James Duderstadt dies at 81

  University of Michigan President Emeritus James J. Duderstadt, who devoted his academic career to an institution he shaped with his zeal for technology, innovation and equality, died Aug. 21 at age 81.

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  Support for carbon capture positive overall, but varies by group and aspect of technology

  A range of technical and policy approaches are being considered to mitigate global climate change. Whether and how these approaches are prioritized or abandoned often depends directly on public approval. For one such technology—carbon capture and utilization (CCU)—public support depends on which aspect of the technology is being considered and which people are considering it, Read more

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