Public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with broad research activity spanning engineering, sciences, medicine, and social sciences.
University of Michigan researchers report that low doses of dicamba made wood sorrel produce more flowers in a split-field experiment. They suggest drift may be strengthening edge weeds, though their seed and heredity results are thinner than that.
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University of Michigan researchers who reviewed 85 studies say a mollusk's species shapes its microbiome more than its habitat does. The authors do not know why, and most reviewed studies covered edible species in the United States, Europe and China.
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Researchers at Washington State University and the University of Michigan slowed endometriosis lesion spread in mice with a repackaged tapeworm drug. The treatment also reduced inflammation, and the team is working toward clinical trials for a disease with limited treatment options.
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Caltech and Michigan theorists find a dying Sun shedding mass in 4,600 random kicks unravels the giant planets' orbits within 10 billion years in 90% of runs. It is a simulation result built on kick sizes inferred from Gaia binaries, and the reported figures do not cleanly support the hundredfold speed-up over the old estimate.
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University of Michigan researchers prompted Claude and ChatGPT to extract species interactions from eBird and iNaturalist comments, in a PNAS paper. The proof-of-concept found nonnative plants creeping into West Coast ecosystems that might otherwise go unnoticed.
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Researchers say software is the easiest fix for AI data-center power limits, citing a training optimiser that cut energy up to 30% on unchanged hardware. With average PUE flat for six years, the remaining gains are in the servers, which draw about 60% of a facility's power.
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Forty-one percent of Michigan city and township leaders say nine-day early voting has hurt election administration, a University of Michigan survey found. Ratings divide by town size, budget stress and party, and officials describe the costs only in their written comments.
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University of Michigan researchers counted more than 611,000 congressional communications with federal agencies and found experienced offices do more casework. That cuts against a standard argument for term limits, though the published summary does not size a new office's startup cost.
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Michigan and UCLA researchers built a 3.4-ounce robot that hops about three body lengths a second by twisting elastic helices until they snap. The team says timing the snap spares the motor from high output, though the published account has no energy figures to test it.
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Researchers linked the tapeworm drug niclosamide to a carrier that cleared detectable endometriosis lesions in up to five of eight treated mice after one dose. It points to a non-hormonal option for a disease with no cure, though the test used eight mice per group over two weeks.
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UC Riverside simulations find an Earth-mass planet could orbit stably in the habitable zone of 70 Ophiuchi's larger star, about 5 parsecs away. A stable orbit is the first test a habitable world must pass, so the result tells planet hunters where in this pair to look.
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Michigan-led surveys found family planning co-designers in Addis Ababa and Nairobi felt valued across seven workshops each, yet chafed at long silences. The complaints trace to decisions made between sessions, outside the workshop room.
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Astronomers led by the University of Michigan ruled out planets of Jupiter's mass or more within 5 AU of 70 Oph A and 0.5 AU of 70 Oph B. The nearby binary remains a candidate target for future habitable-planet observatories, now with a measured limit on giants in its inner regions.
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Researchers following 3,105 Add Health siblings linked teen loneliness to precarious adult work, less so among teens who felt attached to school. Neighborhood attachment showed no such pattern, and the authors do not claim loneliness causes the insecurity.
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Virginia Tech engineers and veterinarians swapped the water bath that human histotripsy needs for a solid ultrasound gel pad, then treated a nine-year-old Hanoverian mare who stood awake through the session. The trial has one horse in it so far.
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By engineering hydrogen-bond donors into the shell around an iron complex, a University of Michigan group forced the stable pollutant to react, using heat to make nitric oxide and light to make ammonia.
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A social psychologist who studies education reports that five years of rebuilding classroom assessments around autonomy, competence and relatedness improved how supported students felt on multiple-choice tests, and raised their scores.
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Victoria Medvec says the party who moves first usually does better, but not before a job offer exists. Caio Waisman's eBay data adds that the side who already made the offer gains again by answering slowly.
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Recent fires have burned through suburban neighborhoods in Washington, Colorado and California, and Vox reports that smoke from burning houses and vehicles carries plastic and metal oxides whose long-term health effects are still being studied.
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Eight of the ten biggest solar-building states voted for Trump, and the trade group credits cheap land and fast permitting. The quarter's 45 percent gain also reflects a construction rush before federal credits expired.
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