• Resilience for Great Lakes ecosystems, economies

    New research funded by the Michigan Sea Grant will address wild rice conservation, invasive mussel ecology and the ability of algal blooms to produce toxins in a changing environment.

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  • Science gets personal

    FamJam aims to support the teaching of engineering in middle school using standards-based and culturally relevant approaches. With guidance from experienced collaboration facilitators, the goal is to create a community-centered ready-to-implement set of science lessons by adapting a powerful standards-based curriculum.

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  • Silk made into strong plastic-like materials with 6G potential

    Silk threads can be fused into transparent, plastic-like materials that twist terahertz frequencies of light, according to research led by Imperial College London, University of Michigan Engineering and Tufts University. The findings could enable components of 6G networks to be made from upcycled silk.

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  • Defining Gravity

    From spacetime to the science of dance, from quantum mechanics to quarks, from wavelengths to watts—the popular series, Saturday Morning Physics, makes science accessible to viewers near and far.

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