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Community force: How holistic program is changing Detroit one toddler at a time
The toddlers arrive at the colorful stucco house with the bright orange door in the Martin Park neighborhood, take off their coats and seek out egg-shaped noise makers to shake. Davon'te, 3, loves visiting the Brilliant Detroit hub for weekly toddler activities, his mother Camillia Martin said. And her two daughters ages 5 and 7 started attending in 2021.
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Snakes do it faster, better: How a group of scaly, legless lizards hit the evolutionary jackpot
More than 100 million years ago, the ancestors of the first snakes were small lizards that lived alongside other small, nondescript lizards in the shadow of the dinosaurs.
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Voters concerned about the ages of politicians: U-M experts can discuss
The age of political candidates and elected officials has been highly debated this election year. University of Michigan experts are available to discuss.
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Anomaly mythology: Factors that predict stock market returns exciting, but not reliable
Stock market anomalies, which by their nature perform contrary to the notion of efficient markets, are appealing to investors. They're also risky because they are mercurial—rising, falling and vaporizing, seemingly on a whim.
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Auto industry deadlines loom for impaired-driver detection tech, U-M offers a low-cost solution
Cameras similar to those already on newer model cars, combined with facial recognition tools, could read the "tells" of impairment in the face and upper body of a driver, University of Michigan engineers have shown.
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U-M astronomer: Get to the path of April’s total solar eclipse
The sun and moon will trace a path across North America April 8, bringing a total solar eclipse to a large swath of the United States. The path of totality—the line across Earth along which the sun and moon will be in lockstep, and the moon will completely block out the sun—will fall across a tiny sliver of southeast Michigan. The last time North America experienced a total solar eclipse was 2017, and the last time Michigan experienced a total eclipse was 1954.
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Changes in flu circulation means US likely to see vaccines move from quadrivalent to trivalent
U.S. flu vaccines are likely to move from quadrivalent to trivalent due to a change in circulating influenza viruses, says a University of Michigan researcher.
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Miss World’s return to India after 28 years provides global cachet
India will host the 71st Miss World pageant in Mumbai March 9. This is India's second time hosting Miss World, the oldest existing international beauty pageant, after a controversial first time in 1996.
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New methods of conservation needed to prevent the extinction of great apes
Great apes, human's closest living relatives, are knocking on the door of extinction. Humans have hunted great apes, which include bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans, destroyed their habitats, and transmitted fatal diseases to them. Now, five of the seven recognized species of great apes have been listed as Critically Endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, meaning they are on the brink of extinction.
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U-M expert shares ideas to ease housing crisis with federal officials in Washington
A proposal developed by a University of Michigan business expert and others to help ease the U.S. housing crisis is being shared with federal housing officials.
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U-M launches interactive website documenting war crimes in Ukraine
Site features interactive maps, testimonies collected by The Reckoning Project The University of Michigan’s Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia has created a new website that serves as a digital archive of testimonies from witnesses and victims of documented human rights violations, war crimes and atrocities in Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, Read more
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Detroit residents’ trust in police shaped by history of police contact
Detroit residents who have had any type of contact with police are more critical of police than people who have no contact with police, according to a new survey of Detroit residents from the University of Michigan.
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Solar flares: U-M experts highlight gaps preventing accurate predictions of impacts around Earth
The recent spike of activity from the sun occurred during what NASA has dubbed the Heliophysics Big Year—a celebration of solar science centered on the April 8 total eclipse, the last that will be visible from the continental U.S. for 20 years.
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