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University of Michigan: AV Challenge Offers Engineers Opportunity to Test Decision-Making Algorithms
The University of Michigan has issued a challenge to the developers of autonomous vehicle technologies: show us what you’ve got.
The Mcity AV Challenge will pit researchers in academia and industry against each other, measuring the…
New Chemical Tool Sheds Light on Pathways Utilized by Dopamine, Opioids, and Other Neuronal Signals
University of Michigan researchers have developed a new tool to better understand how chemicals like dopamine and epinephrine interact with neurons.
These chemicals are among a wide variety of signals that get processed in the brain…
Study Shows Squirrels Reap Benefits Later in Life from Food Abundance, Offset Early-Life Adversity
If a person has a high-quality, late-life environment, it can mitigate the negative impact caused by early-life stressors, a new study shows.
Researchers determined this human outcome after analyzing data from more than 1,000 wild red…
Global Science Team Unveils Vast DNA Tree of Life for Flowering Plants
The most up-to-date understanding of the flowering plant tree of life is presented in a new study published today in the journal Nature by an international team of 279 scientists, including three University of Michigan biologists.
Using…
University of Leeds Unearths Unpublished CS Lewis Poem in Special Collections
A forgotten poem by Chronicles of Narnia author CS Lewis reveals details of friendships between fantasy writers and medievalists at the University of Leeds.
The 1935 poem, ‘Mód Þrýþe Ne Wæg’, was among a bundle of documents sold to the…
Harvard Announces Return to Mandatory Testing Protocols
Students applying to Harvard College for fall 2025 admission will be required to submit standardized test scores, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences announced on Thursday. This new policy will be applied to the Class of 2029 admissions cycle…
Harvard University: Three Honorees to Receive 2024 Harvard Medal
The Harvard Alumni Association has announced that Scott A. Abell ’72, Katherine N. Lapp, and M. Lee Pelton, Ph.D. ’84, will receive the 2024 Harvard Medal.
First awarded in 1981, the Harvard Medal recognizes extraordinary service to the…
Research Indicates Adolescent Stress Could Heighten Risk of Postpartum Depression in Adults
In a new study, a Johns Hopkins Medicine-led research team reports that social stress during adolescence in female mice later results in prolonged elevation of the hormone cortisol after they give birth. The researchers say this corresponds…
Research Reveals COVID-19 Pandemic Resulted in Minimal Developmental Milestone Delays in Infants and…
Infants and children 5 years old and younger experienced only “modest” delays in developmental milestones due to the COVID-19 pandemic disruptions and restrictions, a study led by Johns Hopkins Children’s Center finds.
In a report on the…
Lancaster University’s Work Foundation Warns 1.4 Million Workers Face Insecurity at Work and…
New analysis from the Work Foundation at Lancaster University reveals that 1.4 million people face the ‘double jeopardy’ of working in severely insecure jobs – meaning they face a combination of insecure work conditions such as low or…