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Using social media data and artificial intelligence in a comprehensive national assessment, a new University of Michigan study reveals that nearly 15% of Americans deny that climate change is real.
Feb 14, 2024
A new University of Michigan-led international study finds that fruits and vegetables grown in urban farms and gardens have a carbon footprint that is, on average, six times greater than conventionally grown produce.
Jan 22, 2024
Within the next 10 years, it’s projected that up to 50% of United States adults will be affected by obesity, which is associated with cognitive impairment and dementia.
Jan 8, 2024
Because same-sex sexual behavior does not result in offspring, evolutionary biologists have long wondered how the genes associated with this behavior have persisted in the human genome, and whether they will remain in the future.
Jan 5, 2024
Among many parents’ top resolutions for the New Year: More patience, less time on phones, better consistency with discipline and healthier family habits.
Dec 18, 2023
Living through a historic pandemic while handling the stress of the first year of college sent one-third of students in a new study into clinical depression.
Dec 12, 2023
A University of Michigan-led study based on a review of genetic and health information from more than 276,000 people finds strong support for a decades-old evolutionary theory that sought to explain aging and senescence.
Dec 11, 2023
In a study evaluating the bias in OpenAI’s CLIP, a model that pairs text and images and operates behind the scenes in the popular DALL-E image generator…
Dec 11, 2023
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.
Dec 8, 2023
If you look at massive galaxies teeming with stars, you might be forgiven in thinking they are star factories, churning out brilliant balls of gas.
Nov 22, 2023
A University of Michigan astronomer has made a thorough forensic study of a star that was torn apart when it ventured too close to a giant black hole and then had its insides tossed out into space.
Aug 28, 2023
The longer a person has type 2 diabetes, the more likely they may be to experience changes in brain structure, a Michigan Medicine study finds.
Aug 10, 2023
An innovative vehicle security system called Battery Sleuth, developed by a research team led by the University of Michigan, aims to address the rising vehicle theft rates caused by the increasing technology in cars.
Jul 18, 2023
Preserving the diversity of forests assures their productivity and potentially increases the accumulation of carbon and nitrogen in the soil, which helps to sustain soil fertility and mitigate global climate change.
May 1, 2023
