• New tusk-analysis

    Traces of sex hormones extracted from a woolly mammoth’s tusk provide the first direct evidence that adult males experienced musth, a testosterone-driven episode of heightened aggression against rival males, according to a new University of Michigan-led study.

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  • Propelling Economic Growth in Michigan

    Centered on the Keweenaw Peninsula in an area once famous for copper mining, a budding rocket company started by a Michigan Aerospace Engineering alum has helped to drive a 5.4% population gain in the northern reaches of Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

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  • Dreaming and Brain Waves

    LSA Professor Omar Ahmed is leading a lab that is studying brain communication, including the ways that the two hemispheres interact and how that interaction might be related to neurodegenerative disorders and memory loss.

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  • Welding plastic

    Making vehicle structures out of a combination of metals and plastics could make them dramatically lighter, stronger, safer and more environmentally friendly than the all-steel or all-aluminum approaches that dominate today. But how to quickly and cheaply join all those materials together has been a sticky problem. A University of Michigan lab is developing solutions.

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