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  Science gets personal: Family stories drive STEM actions, reimagine just futures

  The room fills with lots of hum as parents arrive and students wrap up presentations for the FamJam program family night at Stout Middle School in Dearborn. A group moves between desks cutting cardstock, styrofoam and string. Some of them are drawing and coloring climate change maps. Others build a water system prototype.

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  Immigrant youths feel worlds collide from bicultural stress

  As the number of adolescents from immigrant families continues to rise, researchers say a pressing question is coming into focus: What does it mean for young people's mental health to grow up navigating life between cultures?

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  Resolving the heart of the Cigar Galaxy with NASA’s JWST

  University of Michigan astronomers were part of a team that has revealed an unprecedented look inside a fascinating galaxy 12 million light-years away using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST.

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  Michigan Minds podcast: AI English and the environmental cost

  Laura Aull is a professor of English and linguistics and recent director of the English Department Writing Program at the University of Michigan. Her research uses corpus linguistics—the large-scale study of digital text—to examine how language patterns shape writing assessment, academic success, and social power.

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  Feeding data to AI to speed up drug discovery

  Developing new medicines can require thousands of chemistry experiments to identify the right recipe for a safe, effective and ideally affordable drug.

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  Utility or speculation? Dissecting the pros and cons of the crypto space

  There's no doubt that cryptocurrencies have surged in terms of use and value in recent years, bringing rising risks of volatility and vulnerability in financial markets.

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  Air quality: Rainfall history matters as much as where the air came from

  Rainfall history is just as critical to predicting air pollution as where the air came from, a team led by University of Michigan Engineering researchers has discovered, in collaboration with scientists at the Appalachian Mountain Club and Plymouth State University.

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  How an oddball ‘hot Jupiter’ shows us new possibilities for planets beyond our solar system

  A team of astronomers, including Emily Rauscher of the University of Michigan, appears to have solved a mystery they uncovered eight years ago in observing a planet about 700 light-years away.

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  U-M researchers make it easier to say ‘NO’ to catheter infections

  University of Michigan researchers are developing a technology that will incorporate a nitric oxide (NO) generating system in catheters. Nitric oxide is naturally produced in our arteries and used by our bodies to suppress blood clotting and fight infections.

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  Energy agreement puts U-M on track to zero emissions tied to purchased electricity in 2027

  A new renewable energy agreement with DTE Energy marks a major milestone in the University of Michigan's campus energy transition, putting the university on track to eliminate emissions tied to purchased electricity in 2027.

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  U-M researchers develop AI tool, using plants to peer into the past

  Scientists who study plant physiology and evolution have a new tool in their toolkit: a machine learning algorithm that can scan digital plant specimen collections and quickly measure leaf size and thickness.

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  Revealing how and when a black hole’s mighty winds can squash star formation

  Thanks to the X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission, or XRISM, University of Michigan researchers are helping chip away at one of astronomy's cosmic mysteries: The universe's most massive galaxies appear to be missing stars.

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  Can North America mine enough rare earth elements?

  In the quest to create a robust supply chain of rare earth elements necessary for the clean energy revolution and everyday modern conveniences, North America has enough deposits of sufficient quality to begin looking in its own backyard, according to a University of Michigan study.

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