• Looking to Kenya’s Lake Victoria

    To try to understand how harmful algal blooms might evolve in Lake Erie in a warming climate, University of Michigan scientists helped conduct a survey of cyanobacteria in a gulf of Kenya’s Lake Victoria.

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  • U-M astronomy will lead its first satellite mission

    The first space mission led by the University of Michigan Department of Astronomy is scheduled to launch in 2029. The mission is called STARI—STarlight Acquisition and Reflection toward Interferometry—and will showcase the viability of a new technique for studying exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system.

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  • Celebrating a milestone CT scan

    For seven years, a CT scanner has been whirring away nearly around the clock, tucked inside of a lab at the University of Michigan Research Museums Center. Now, the U-M MicroCT Scanning Laboratory has recently completed its 10,000th scan: a 3D scan of a wolverine skull, collected in British Columbia in 1948.

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  • Thought-controlled virtual quadcopter

    A brain-computer interface, surgically placed in a research participant with tetraplegia, paralysis in all four limbs, provided an unprecedented level of control over a virtual quadcopter—just by thinking about moving their unresponsive fingers.

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