The fastest wind ever discovered blowing off a disk around a stellar-mass black hole has been observed by a team of astronomers that includes a U-Michigan student.
Bruce Conforth, professor of American Culture, will share his famous end-of-the-semester lecture on MTV's college network for a new series pilot profiling some of the country's best collegiate lecturers.
Typhoons thrash the Philippines every year, causing flash flooding and mudslides that often kill hundreds of people in the Southeast Asian nation.
An energy-recycling computer circuit will enable more power efficient laptop PCs.
A unique energy-harvesting technology has won the $50,000 first prize in the Michigan Clean Energy Venture Challenge, judges announced today.
Less than 10 people born in Michigan grew up speaking the native language of the area's indigenous people. But more than 2,700 like the language on Facebook.
In recognition of a gift to the College of Engineering, the Computer Science and Engineering Building will be named the Bob and Betty Beyster Building.
Two U-M early-career scientists, Mi Hee Lim and Sarah Veatch, win 2012 Sloan research fellowships.
What goes into creating a layered and complex theatrical production of world-class quality?
Warped space lens provides zoomed-in image of faraway galaxy
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Feb 14, 2012
A natural zoom lens in space has enabled astronomers to build new high-resolution images of one of the brightest distant galaxies magnified through a phenomenon called “gravitational lensing.”
U-M human embryonic stem cell line placed on national registry
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Feb 14, 2012
The University of Michigan’s first human embryonic stem...
Museum of Zoology moving 5 million specimens
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Feb 10, 2012
Over the next eight months, about 5 million...
Super Bowl commercials demystified
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Feb 06, 2012
University of Michigan Ross School of Business professor...