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U-M Study: Local Renewable Energy Employment Can Fully Replace U.S. Coal Jobs Nationwide

Across the United States, local wind and solar jobs can fully replace the coal-plant jobs that will be lost as the nation’s power-generation system moves away from fossil fuels in the coming decades, according to a new University of Michigan study.

Study: Even Modest Climate Change May Lead To Sweeping Changes In Northernmost Forests

Even relatively modest climate warming and associated precipitation shifts may dramatically alter Earth’s northernmost forests, which constitute one of the planet’s largest nearly intact forested ecosystems and are home to a big chunk of the planet’s terrestrial carbon.

New Long-Necked Dinosaur Helps Rewrite Evolutionary History Of Sauropods In South America

A medium-sized sauropod dinosaur inhabited the tropical lowland forested area of the Serranía del Perijá in northern Colombia approximately 175 million years ago, according to a new study by an international team of researchers published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

What Your Company Needs To Understand About Digital Privacy (But Probably Doesn’t)

Digital privacy is often framed as an issue for consumers, but Ruslan Momot argues that companies need to consider the concept as a key element of their business.

Moderating Online Content Increases Accountability, But Can Harm Some Platform Users

Marginalized social media users face disproportionate content removal from platforms, but the visibility of this online moderation is a double-edged sword.

Scientists Develop Greener, More Efficient Method For Producing Next-Generation Antibiotics

An international team of researchers has developed a method for altering one class of antibiotics, using microscopic organisms that produce these compounds naturally.

New Study Challenges Old Views On What’s ‘Primitive’ In Mammalian Reproduction

It’s hard to imagine life on Earth without mammals. They swim in the depths of the ocean, hop across deserts in Australia and travel to the moon.

U-M Study: Paper Wasps Form Abstract Concept Of ‘Same’ And ‘Different’

In a series of studies over more than 20 years, University of Michigan evolutionary biologist Elizabeth Tibbetts and her colleagues have demonstrated that paper wasps, despite their tiny brains, have an impressive capacity to learn, remember and make social distinctions about others.

Toward Manufacturing Semitransparent Solar Cells The Size Of Windows

A peel-off patterning technique could enable more fragile organic semiconductors to be manufactured into semitransparent solar panels at scale

Open Source Platform Enables Research On Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning

Virtual assortment of user devices provides a realistic training environment for distributed machine learning, protects privacy by learning where data lives

U-M Researchers Track Protein Binding, Build Synthetic Proteins To Study Gene Expression

How does a nose remember that it’s a nose? Or an eye remember that it’s an eye?

Machine Learning Begins To Understand The Human Gut

New computer model accurately predicts behavior of millions of microbial communities from hundreds of experiments, an advance toward precision medicine

Engineers Build LEGO-Like Artificial Intelligence Chip

The new design is stackable and reconfigurable, for swapping out and building on existing sensors and neural network processors.

Court Ruling on PrEP Could Lead to More Than 2,000 HIV Infections in The Next Year

A recent U.S. federal court ruling that removes a requirement for employers to provide insurance coverage for the HIV prevention medications known as Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, or PrEP, could result in more than 2,000 entirely preventable HIV infections in the coming year, according to a new study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.

Conserving Wildlife Can Help Mitigate Climate Change

Solving the climate crisis and biodiversity crisis are not separate issues. Animals remove billions of tons of carbon dioxide each year. Restoring species will help limit global warming, new science reveals.

Yale, VA Researchers Develop New Health Metric for Veterans

Researchers at Yale School of Medicine and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs have developed an alternative method to measure quality of life in veterans who seek weight management, eating disorder, and nutrition services.

Partisanship And Blame in The Early Days Of COVID-19

On Jan. 20, 2020, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the first American, laboratory-confirmed case of what would eventually be called COVID-19.

Study Links Hard-Right Social Media With Incidents Of Civil Unrest

A new Yale-led study finds evidence that social media activity on hard-right platforms contributes to political unrest offline.

Yale-Led Team Creates Comprehensive Resource for Impact of Genomic Variants

Each person has about 4 million sequence differences in their genome relative to the reference human genome.