• New water purification technology

    Water desalination plants could replace expensive chemicals with new carbon cloth electrodes that remove boron from seawater, an important step of turning seawater into safe drinking water. A study describing the new technology has been published in Nature Water by engineers at the University of Michigan and Rice University.

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  • Battery-like computer memory keeps working above 1000°F

    Computer memory could one day withstand the blazing temperatures in fusion reactors, jet engines, geothermal wells and sweltering planets using a new solid-state memory device developed by a team of engineers led by the University of Michigan.

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  • Warming temperatures impact immune performance of wild monkeys

    U-M anthropology doctoral student Jordan Lucore examined how the immune systems of wild monkeys in Costa Rica were impacted by temperature. The immune performance of wild capuchin monkeys declines when the animals experience higher temperatures, and younger monkeys seem to be particularly vulnerable to heat, according to a University of Michigan study.

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  • Not so simple machines

    It’s easy to think that machine learning is a completely digital phenomenon. But the first machines were analog and now, a small but growing body of research is showing that mechanical systems are capable of learning, too. The U-M team of Shuaifeng Li and Xiaoming Mao devised an algorithm that provides a mathematical framework for how learning works in lattices called mechanical neural networks.

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