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With more than a billion dollars in research expenditures annually, and 100 graduate and professional programs ranked in the top ten in the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings, U-M is a global leader in science and technology; health, law and public policy; the arts and humanities; and a wide range of other academic disciplines.
More than 61,000 students on three University of Michigan campuses (Ann Arbor, Dearborn and Flint) come from every state and 129 countries. And with more than 540,000 living degree holders, U-M has one of the nation’s largest alumni bodies.
Human beings have always turned to oracles and divination for answers to difficult questions. Today, AI might be fulfilling that role.
Caring for someone with dementia can be especially challenging because the condition can profoundly change how a person interacts with their loved ones.
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A massive solar flare could seriously disrupt life on Earth – but new NASA missions and others in development will help monitor the Sun.
Durante workshop em Belém pesquisadores nacionais e internacionais trabalharam com análise de dados, sensoriamento remoto, inteligência artificial e modelagem ecológica para debater o futuro da Amazônia.
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Parceria entre UFPA e University of Michigan traz pesquisadores com diferentes expertises para as discussões sobre a capacidade da Amazônia de resistir às mudanças climáticas
Professor John Iliffe (1939-2026).
St John's College, Cambridge
John Iliffe was interested in evidence and interpretation, not theoretical abstraction.
A NOAA scientist takes a coral sample in the Galapagos Islands. The process does not injure the colony, which grows back.
Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory - NOAA
Scientists went to the heart of the El Niño pattern to learn from living and fossil corals. The results show El Niño’s intensifying coincides with global warming.
A man walks through a tiny home village in Sun Valley, Calif., on Aug. 10, 2026.
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As economic and demographic growth increasingly coexists with poverty and homelessness, resident-led alternatives
to housing are supporting communities left behind.
X may feed you content you’re into, but it may feed you even more that riles you up.
Nicole Amidon
A new FDA survey finds some positive trends among young people in the US, though new forms of nicotine use like pouches have become a bit more popular.
When people use facts to defend their preferences, tastes or values, they may turn a disagreement over priorities into a dispute over who is right and who is wrong, turning up the emotional heat.
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Despite their high confidence overall, almost half of surveyed election officials worried about the cost of running elections.
Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate Abdul El-Sayed speaks at a general election kickoff rally for Michigan Democrats at Renaissance High School in Detroit on Aug. 7, 2026.
AP Photo/Paul Sancya
Our study found that financial hubs around the world have significantly higher levels of income inequality.
En una gran pila se apilan troncos de palo de rosa cortados. Estos troncos, cuya especie exacta se desconoce, se encuentran en Madagascar, uno de los puntos clave del comercio mundial de palo de rosa.
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Destacamos formas de celebrar la sabiduría, la alegría, la belleza y la resistencia de los indígenas wounaan mientras hablamos de la historia.
Cut rosewood logs sit in a large pile. These logs, the exact species of which are unknown, are in Madagascar, one of the hot spots of global rosewood trade.
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We highlight ways to celebrate Wounaan wisdom, joy, beauty and resistance while discussing centuries of taking from Indigenous communities.
Arian Simone, left, and Ayana Parsons of the foundation The Fearless Fund saw their grant program for Black women entrepreneurs affected after the Supreme Court ruled against affirmative action.
AP Photo/Frank Franklin II
Menopausal hormone therapy no longer has the highest-level warning label about the risk of breast cancer, opening a gray area on who would benefit most from treatment.
Physicians use AI tools to support their decision-making.
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