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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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  Consumer sentiment down amid disagreements on new government policies

  Consumer sentiment fell for the first time in six months, edging down 4% from December. While assessments of personal finances inched up for the fifth consecutive month, both the short- and long-run business outlook weakened in January, said economist Joanne Hsu, director of the University of Michigan's Surveys of Consumers.

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  Stress in humans is bad, but for wild animals it can be lifesaving

  Faced with relentless drought, capuchin monkeys showcased their remarkable resilience and provided the first data from wild primates to suggest that a stronger stress response promotes survival.

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  Nearly half of Michigan law enforcement officials concerned about funding, according to U-M survey

  Among Michigan law enforcement agency leaders, concerns about funding levels are widespread, with almost half of chiefs of police and county sheriffs saying the local governments they serve do not provide sufficient money for their agencies.

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  US leaving World Health Organization: Now what?

  President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the World Health Organization, of which the U.S. was a founding member and is an integral part, raises questions on how it might affect Americans and people around the world, especially in an anxious, post-pandemic era of infectious disease and global health threats.

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  Trump’s birthright citizenship ban

  Among his first actions after being sworn into office, President Trump signed an executive order that would end birthright citizenship, an effort to crackdown on immigration laws.

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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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