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  The Amazing Green Race

  By Courtney Rubin | Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:08 PM ET

  solar powered cars from 16 countries lined up at the starting line in Darwin, Northern Australia, last Saturday. Among the entrants: the University of Michigan's Infinium (one of the favorites to win) and Cambridge University's The Endeavour. The 650-lb Infinium's solar panels ar Read More

  More like this in: Technology, The New York Times, Travel, NASA, Australia, Emissions, Japan, Planet, Solar Energy, Solar Power, Michigan
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  Add Testosterone Insult to Election Injury

  By John Casey | Thu Oct 22, 2009 3:23 PM ET

  of North Carolina basketball teams, to see whether the winning team boosts fans' hormones.  Photo courtesy of World Economic Forum, vi Read More

  More like this in: Barack Obama, North Carolina, ABC News, John McCain, Duke University, Testosterone, Elections, Presidential Election
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  Economy, Public Health Related -- But Not How You'd Expect

  By David Bois | Mon Oct 12, 2009 2:42 PM ET

  agony. Public health says: “Wow, I feel like a million bucks!” It’s an exercise in understatement to describe recent findings coming out of a University of Michigan research project as counterintuitive. But as Scientific American explains in a currently published article, several years Read More

  More like this in: mortality rate, Life Expectancy, Gross Domestic Product, Science, Economy, Healthcare, Innovation & Discovery, Life Sciences
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  Used Pacemakers Help Poor Heart Patients

  By John Casey | Mon Oct 12, 2009 1:59 PM ET

  after death, more than half said they would. That's when "Project My Heart Your Heart" was born. The project is "a joint collaboration between the University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center, Michigan funeral homes, and World Medical Relief, a Detroit-based non-profit organization tha Read More

  More like this in: Technology, Social Responsibility, Tech Does Good, Cutting-edge, Healthcare, Giving, Volunteerism, Activism, Development
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  Who Should Mind the Forests?

  By Lisa Jo Rudy | Fri Oct 9, 2009 1:59 PM ET

  that's the premise on which the U.N. is making plans to manage the remaining forests of the world.But it turns out, according to a study by the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, the U.N. is wrong.Research shows that, overall, commonly held forestlands sequester more carbon than governmen Read More

  More like this in: Global Warming, Michigan, New Scientist, Science, Environment
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  A Great Help for the Great Lakes

  By David Bois | Thu Oct 1, 2009 1:25 PM ET

  new tool to support their efforts.Supporters and stewards of the Great Lakes on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border have their eyes trained on a University of Michigan team that has announced plans to produce the first comprehensive, basin-wide map of threats to the lakes' well-being. Th Read More

  More like this in: Climate change, NASA, Canada, Maps, Lakes, Great Lakes Science Center, Science, Environment, Innovation & Discovery, Life Sciences
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  Mountain Formation Sends Evolution Peaking

  By David Bois | Wed Sep 30, 2009 2:00 PM ET

  up for adaptation to the new and differing conditions on opposing sides of the barrier. Photo courtesy of Steve Jurvetson, via Wikimedia Common Read More

  More like this in: Michigan, Rocky Mountains, Science, Environment, Innovation & Discovery, Life Sciences
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  Recession: A Prescription for Longevity

  By Lisa Jo Rudy | Wed Sep 30, 2009 11:50 AM ET

  available to those who are no longer worried about office hours, nagging bosses or those pesky investment portfolios! Photo courtesy o Read More

  More like this in: Health, Science, United States, Recession, Science Daily, Stress, Drinking, Michigan, Life Expectancy
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  Googling for Endangered Species

  By Steve Tanner | Tue Sep 8, 2009 9:00 AM ET

  extinctions in all analyzed networks."Stefano Allesina of the University of Chicago's department of ecology and evolution and Mercedes Pascual of University of Michigan, the paper's co-authors, say the tweaked PageRank algorithm gave them the exact same results as more complicated algorithm Read More

  More like this in: Google, Technology, Endangered Species, Mountain View, Censorship, Ecology, University of Chicago
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  Fewer Fertilizers Mean Fitter Fish

  By Lisa Jo Rudy | Fri Aug 21, 2009 9:00 AM ET

  no absolute proof that cutting down on phosphorus-containing fertilizer really made a difference. This week, though, Professor John Lehman of the University of Michigan, along with students Douglas Bell and Kahli McDonald published a paper in the Journal Lake and Reservoir Management, whic Read More

  More like this in: NewsWise, Algae, Fertilizer, Clean Water, Water Pollution, Science, Environment, Life Sciences