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  • Outdoorsman Dustin Milner in front of his hunting camper near Gwinn. Image credit: Jeremy Marble, University of Michigan News

    For rural firearm owners, Store Safely program offers options to enhance secure firearm storage

    Dustin Milner, a local outdoorsman, has fond memories of visiting Little Lake in the heart of the Upper Peninsula with his family for hunting season every fall.

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  • Washington DC, USA - April 4, 2023: Entrance sign closeup to American Environmental Protection Agency office building in Washington D.C. Image credit: Adobe Stock

    EPA to repeal endangerment finding on greenhouse gases: U-M experts available to comment

    EXPERTS ADVISORY The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is reportedly planning to revoke its 2009 declaration that greenhouse gas emissions are harmful to human health—known as the endangerment finding. University of Michigan experts are available to comment on this potential move as well as its impacts on society, the environment, business and more. Andy Hoffman is Read more

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  • Composite photo of three types of self-employed workers. Image credit: Nicole Smith, made with ChatGPT

    Not all gigs are equal: Informal self-employment linked to lower pay, poorer health and instability

    Not all self-employment guarantees financial security, with informal arrangements posing the greatest risks to well-being for many workers.

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  • The robot has four legs with backward-facing knees. Each leg has three actuators, controlling hip ab/adduction, hip flexion/extension, and knee flexion/extension. Exposed wires link up to the motors. T.R.O.T is emblazoned on the case around the belly of the robot.

    Open-source modular robot for understanding evolution

    What is it about a cheetah's build that enables it to run so fast? What gives the wolf its exceptional endurance?

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  • A violet-green swallow is perched on a piece of concrete looks back over its wing at the camera.

    Noise pollution is affecting birds’ reproduction, stress levels and more. The good news is we can fix it.

    New research led by the University of Michigan is painting a more comprehensive picture of how noise pollution is impacting birds around the world.

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  • Concept photo of a sign prohibiting cell phones in a classroom, emphasizing a distraction-free environment for students. Image credit: Adobe Stock, made with AI

    Michigan governor signs classroom cell phone ban: U-M experts available to comment

    University of Michigan experts are available to discuss a new policy that will ban cell phone use in Michigan's K-12 classrooms.

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  • Concept photo of a person observing a wall of television screens displaying olympic games broadcasts, representing media influence on public opinion and societal manipulation. Image credit: Nicole Smith, made with Gemini

    Media coverage of Asian American Olympians functioned as ‘loyalty test’

    When Asian American Olympians Chloe Kim and Eileen Gu competed in their first Winter Games, they were treated differently by the U.S. media, a new University of Michigan study suggests.

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  • Wrexham Football Club The Racecourse Stadium in Wales, UK. Image credit: Adam Rhodes, Adobe Stock

    It’s Always Sunny in Wrexham: Docuseries nets ‘profoundly moving’ economic, social gains for Wales city

    When actors Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds bought a low-level Welsh soccer club in 2021, their goal was not just to save a sports team.

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  • A composite satellite image shows North America, with Mexico easily visible against a deep blue sea. The northern U.S. and Canada are hidden, however, under dense white clouds, swirling around an extratropical cyclone center above Minnesota.

    Discovering new connections between Great Lakes’ winter storms and global climate patterns

    About a year ago, researchers at the University of Michigan found that the extratropical cyclones that are the biggest drivers of winter weather in the Great Lakes region are warming and trending northward. That means, outside of the northern reaches of the region, residents can expect that their winters will be warmer and wetter on average.

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  • Three gas giant planets resembling Jupiter with swirls of yellow, pink, orange and maroon are various distances from a glowing blue star in this illustration of the HR 8799 system. Pieces of rocky debris are seen crashing into the gas giant in the foreground and in its Saturn-like rings, indicating this giant formed with a solid core that then accreted gas to grow to its giant size.

    Top-down or bottom-up? Researchers discover how a distant planetary system made its gas giants

    The University of Michigan was part of a research team that used the world's most powerful space telescope to provide new insights into a longstanding question in astronomy.

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  • A man watching football on his couch. Image credit: Adobe Stock, made with AI

    Chatbot Super Bowl? AI, nostalgia are shaping Big Game’s ads

    This weekend's Super Bowl isn't just a showdown between the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots—it's shaping up to be the "AI Super Bowl," a cultural collision where cutting-edge technology meets timeless storytelling.

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  • Transcending arch monument at Hart Plaza with One Woodward Avenue building and Ally Detroit Center at background in downtown Detroit, Michigan. Image credit: Adobe Stock

    Detroit’s economic engine recalibrates, will power growth in incomes, wages and overall employment

    Retooling is nothing new for the city that put the world on wheels. It turns out that Detroit's economy still has enough torque to keep pushing up employment, wages and household incomes.

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  • U-M researcher Meha Jain.

    U-M researcher Meha Jain wins inaugural ASU-Science Prize

    Meha Jain, associate professor at the University of Michigan's School for Environment and Sustainability, has won the inaugural ASU-Science Prize for Transformational Impact.

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