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  • Aerial view of the prairie fen at the Arnolds' Farm in Brooklyn, Michigan. Image credit: Eric Bronson

    Legacy in land: Protecting rare fens, century farms and other natural habitats in Michigan

    The sun glows bright behind a fast-moving cloud and dew shines translucent on the lush, green fields. A tabby cat pounces from a nearby tree into tall grass below as Diana and Michael Arnold survey their farm.

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  • Concept illustration of AI and society. Image credit: Jeremy Marble, made with Midjourney

    AI in society: Perspectives from the field

    It may feel like artificial intelligence was just invented with all the hype surrounding ChatGPT and other technologies built on large language models, but six Michigan experts explain how AI has been active in our lives for years—and their hopes and concerns for the future.

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  • Concept illustration of a young Black man dejectedly leaving the hospital. Image credit: Nicole Smith, made with Midjourney

    Black patients less likely to get referral for home health care after hospital stay

    When discharging Black patients from the hospital, nurses are less likely to refer them to home health care than white patients, a new University of Michigan study found.

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  • Concept illustration of extreme conditions in space. Image credit: Nicole Smith, made with Midjourney

    Extreme conditions in stars produce the universe’s heaviest elements

    In studying how the rich diversity of elements in the universe came to exist, University of Michigan research has put a number on how heavy an atom nature can produce—and it happens under extreme conditions in specific types of stars and supernovae.

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  • Concept illustration of an electric vehicle parked in front of a government building. Image credit: Nicole Smith, made with Midjourney

    Electric, autonomous vehicles offer promise, but broad-based benefits elusive without public role

    Autonomous and electric vehicles can be a positive force for people and the planet, but widespread gains require government incentives and investment to ensure access for users across the economic spectrum.

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  • UN Climate Change Conference COP28 | Dubai, 1 December 2023. Image credit: Paul Kagame, via Flicker Creative Commons: Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0

    COP28 climate conference in Dubai: U-M experts available to comment

    Negotiators from nearly 200 countries have gathered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, for the two-week COP28 conference in an effort to curb greenhouse gas emissions and avoid the worst ravages of climate change. University of Michigan experts are available to comment.

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  • Public health resources: Striving for equality among vulnerable communities

    Over the course of the pandemic, COVID-19 hit Black communities and communities of color particularly hard.

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  • U-M study outlines cost, energy savings of switching from fluorescent lamps to LEDs

    LED lighting is up to 44% more efficient than 4-foot fluorescent tubes, according to a University of Michigan study.

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  • Grandchild’s stillbirth risk linked to grandma’s weight

    Research has shown that pregnant women with a body max index of 30 or higher face a greater chance of experiencing a stillbirth compared to pregnant women with a normal BMI.

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  • The space junk appears as many small white points surrounding Earth, which has bright blue oceans and green and brown continents. The space junk is thick enough to form a cloud that obscures most of the black background when viewed from the edges around Earth.

    Tracking undetectable space junk

    Satellite and spacecraft operators may finally be able to detect small pieces of debris orbiting Earth using an approach proposed by researchers from the University of Michigan.

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  • U-M professor: White House plans to improve supply chains comprehensive, challenge will be in execution

    As a member of a global supply chain task force, Ravi Anupindi has seen the snarls in the flow of goods and services, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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  • Richard Phillips hangs watercolors he created while incarcerated at his Farmington home. Image credit: Eric Bronson, Michigan Photography

    Exonerated: Freeing the wrongly accused from prison

    When artist Richard Phillips carefully hangs watercolor paintings in his home, he becomes mentally transported into the nature scenes that appear on his canvas.

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  • Concept illustration of alternative energy. Image credit: Nicole Smith, made with Midjourney

    Michigan clean energy bills signed by Gov. Whitmer: U-M experts available to comment

    Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer today signed a package of clean energy bills, including one that requires utilities in the state to get 100% of their electricity from clean sources by 2040.

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