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                    <p>As people in the United States are coping with historic drought conditions, the country's wildlife is also facing problems because of the extreme aridity.</p>
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                    <p>Complexity may seem subjective, but a quantitative measure of the complexity of nanomaterials was recently developed by a team of researchers from the University of Michigan Engineering, the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.</p>
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                    <p>Online platforms often fail to act on reports of non-consensual intimate images submitted through safety or abuse systems—but remove the same material far more quickly when it is framed as a copyright violation, according to new University of Michigan research.</p>
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                    <p>Twenty percent of women experience mental health conditions, such as depression or anxiety, during pregnancy and the first year of parenthood.</p>
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                    <p>A new report documents widespread immigration enforcement fears among immigrant Michiganders in Detroit, Flint, Grand Rapids and Ypsilanti.</p>
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                    <p>Ekow Yankah is associate dean for faculty and research at the University of Michigan Law School, the Thomas M. Cooley Professor of Law and a professor of philosophy. His work focuses on questions of political and criminal theory and, particularly, questions of political obligation and justifications of punishment.</p>
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                    <p>A protein found only in microscopic tardigrades, one that allows them to survive extreme conditions like dehydration, can convey similar durability in synthetic cells, according to new research from University of Michigan Engineering and the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering.</p>
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                    <p>In a time of economic volatility, relatively few local governments in Michigan report they are doing long-term financial planning—though many say they'd like to be doing more.</p>
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                    <p>Social media promotion can boost visibility and job outcomes for early-career scholars, especially women.</p>
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