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The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument is mounted on the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory—a program of NSF NOIRLab—in Arizona.

Dark Energy Black Holes Help Explain Neutrino Masses

A cradle-to-grave analysis from the University of Michigan has shown that battery electric vehicles have lower lifetime greenhouse gas emissions than internal combustion engine vehicles, hybrids and plug-in hybrids in every county in the contiguous U.S.

Electric Cars Beat Gas Everywhere in America, New Study Shows

Child viewing a screen with a robot on it

Parents Say Kids’ Mental and Physical Health Are Declining

Algae bloom on a lake front

Living Near Toxic Algae Blooms Cuts ALS Survival by Year

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Sound Waves Turn Immune System Into Cancer Fighter

Researchers at the University of Michigan monitored step counts (black) and circadian rhythms (red) in two medical interns. The contrasting graphs reveal how shift work impacts individuals differently across the seasons.

Your Body Clock Still Follows Ancient Seasonal Rhythms

A view through the titanium-sapphire crystal that helps to transfer power into ZEUS’s laser pulses. At two petawatts, ZEUS is now the most powerful laser in the U.S. Image credit: Marcin Szczepanski, Michigan Engineering

US Gets World’s Most Powerful Laser at 2 Petawatts

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1 in 4 American Children Live with Parental Addiction

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Psychedelic Shows Weeks-Long Brain Benefits

Zetian Mi (left) discusses research with group members Samuel Yang, Danhao Wang, and Jiangnan Liu (right) beside the molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) system used to grow thin layers of ferroelectric nitrides. The team discovered why these materials remain stable even when exposed to opposing electric fields. Image credit: Marcin Szczepanski, Michigan Engineering.

Material Defects Become Electronic Superpowers

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Heart Failure Accelerates Brain Aging by 10 Years, New Study Reveals

(A) Schematic sketch for illustrating the implementation of the memristive network–based RC system for rover control through processing time-sequential sensory signals. Here, voltage-based analog sensory signals carrying spatiotemporal information components are input to the memristive reservoir. These input signals are differentiated and nonlinearly mapped to a high-dimensional data space based on the temporal contexts of the input sensory signals and are quantitatively represented by the reservoir state vector X(t), which is constructed from the voltage readings at multiple neuron terminals. Afterward, the state vector is multiplied by a pretrained weight matrix W(t) to export the output signals Y(t) for controlling the testing rover. (B to D) Training data acquisition for emulating PID control of a robot rover for performing target-tracking navigation: (B) snapshot captured from the training video, showing the PID-controlled rover tracing after a red-moving target (the inset view is a snapshot from the ESP32-based internet-of-things (IoT) camera on the rover); (C) exemplary target coordinate data plotted as the function of time points; (D) exemplary motor signal data generated by a digital PID controller, plotted as the function of time points.

Brain-like computer steers rolling robot with 0.25% of the power needed by conventional controllers

Researchers found that they can control how tightly bound excitons (electron-hole pairs) are in a magnetic material by changing its magnetic state, which could lead to new ways to switch materials' properties for future technologies like spintronics.

Scientists Unlock Magnetic ‘Light Switch’ for Next-Generation Quantum Computers

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How Paywalls Are Quietly Reshaping Local News

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