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Life’s Stressors Linked to Health Decline in Multiple Sclerosis Patients

University of Michigan
Categories Health
Two gorillas

Gorilla Resilience Unleashed: How Early Adversity Can’t Bring Them Down

University of Michigan
Categories Brain & Behavior, Life & Non-humans, Social Sciences
Futuristic looking robot looking at a video monitor

AI could run a million microbial experiments per year

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Categories Health, Technology
Field photo of woolly mammoth tusks, teeth and assorted bones collected on Wrangel Island by co-authors (and others) of the new Nature study. These specimens were not used in the study. They were found at least partly exposed while prospecting along river channels and banks. Image credit: Alexei Tikhonov

Surging testosterone found in male woolly mammoths

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Categories Life & Non-humans
Dying brain illustration Credit Pixabay

Evidence of conscious-like activity in the dying brain

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Categories Brain & Behavior
Trees seen from overhead

Tree diversity increases storage of carbon and nitrogen in forest soils, mitigating climate change

University of Michigan
Categories Earth, Energy & Environment
cancer cell illustration

AI predicts genetics of cancerous brain tumors in under 90 seconds

University of Michigan
Categories Health, Technology
a rat

Sugar is processed differently in the brains of obesity-prone vs. obesity-resistant rats

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Categories Brain & Behavior, Health
An AI robot named "Pepper" already serves guests at some hotels, such as the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Las Vegas. Photo by Alex Knight on Unsplash

Robot: I’m sorry. Human: I don’t care anymore!

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Categories Brain & Behavior, Social Sciences, Technology
Key findings from the National Poll on Healthy Aging poll report on addictive eating signs among adults age 50-80.

1 in 8 Americans over 50 show signs of food addiction

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Categories Brain & Behavior, Health
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the distribution of dark matter in the center of the giant galaxy cluster Abell 1689, containing about 1,000 galaxies and trillions of stars. Dark matter is an invisible form of matter that accounts for most of the universe’s mass. Hubble cannot see the dark matter directly. Astronomers inferred its location by analyzing the effect of gravitational lensing, where light from galaxies behind Abell 1689 is distorted by intervening matter within the cluster. Researchers used the observed positions of 135 lensed images of 42 background galaxies to calculate the location and amount of dark matter in the cluster. They superimposed a map of these inferred dark matter concentrations, tinted blue, on an image of the cluster taken by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys. If the cluster’s gravity came only from the visible galaxies, the lensing distortions would be much weaker. The map reveals that the densest concentration of dark matter is in the cluster’s core. Abell 1689 resides 2.2 billion light-years from Earth. The image was taken in June 2002. Image credit: NASA, ESA, D. Coe (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, and Space Telescope Science Institute), N. Benitez (Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia, Spain), T. Broadhurst (University of the Basque Country, Spain), and H. Ford (Johns Hopkins University)

A new model for dark matter

University of Michigan
Categories Physics & Mathematics, Space
Map of percentage change in transportation energy burden from current on-road vehicle stock to a new battery-electric vehicle. Negative percentages indicate energy cost savings for EVs compared to gasoline powered vehicles. Areas with the greatest savings, shown in green, include the West Coast states and parts of the East and South. Transportation energy burden is the percentage of household income spent on fueling with gasoline or charging with electricity. Adapted from Vega-Perkins et al. in Environmental Research Letters, January 2023.

EV transition will benefit most US vehicle owners, but lowest-income Americans could get left behind

University of Michigan
Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Social Sciences
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