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Military makes progress with sexual assault training, but more can be done

By Guest PostOctober 13, 2014Politics1909, chronisch lymphatische leukaemie, cll, department of defense, female taxi driver, genetische mutation, military, mme decourcelle, rupert mayer, university of michigan, us military

ANN ARBOR — The U.S. military has made progress by conducting sexual assault training, but a new University of Michigan study raises questions about the effectiveness of those efforts.

Sexual assault has been a problem in the military for years, resulting in the Department of Defense in 2005 creating a Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office. This office oversees sexual assault training conducted by the five branches. However, their training had undergone little evaluation by outside researchers. (more…)

The source of the sky’s X-ray glow

By Guest PostSeptember 21, 2014Scienceaircraft designer, der kakadu, earth, Galaxy, light years, NASA, network theory, parisite la, proximity, rijeka, robert bartini, schlaue voegel, sergei korolev, sky, solar system, source, university of michigan, yury gagarin

ANN ARBOR — In findings that help astrophysicists understand our corner of the galaxy, an international research team has shown that the soft X-ray glow blanketing the sky comes from both inside and outside the solar system.

The source of this “diffuse X-ray background” has been debated for the past 50 years. Does it originate from the solar wind colliding with interplanetary gases within our solar system? Or is it born further away, in the “local hot bubble” of gas that a supernova is believed to have left in our galactic neighborhood about 10 million years ago? (more…)

All HIV not created equal: Scientists believe they can identify which viruses cause infection

By Guest PostSeptember 15, 2014Health, Scienceamy schmitz, boost in brainpower, can apes talk, ceramic nanofiber, colin rule, dieter steklis, heterogeneous, hiv, hiv virus, identify, nature nanotechnology, the new handshake, university of michigan

ANN ARBOR — HIV-infected people carry many different HIV viruses and all have distinct personalities—some much more vengeful and infectious than others.

Yet, despite the breadth of infectivity, roughly 76 percent of HIV infections arise from a single virus. Now, scientists believe they can identify the culprit with very specific measurements of the quantities of a key protein in the HIV virus. (more…)

Short lives, violent deaths: Two CT-scanned Siberian mammoth calves yield trove of insights

By Guest PostSeptember 5, 2014Sciencebrain, ct scans, dopingmittel, dopingstudie, dunkelziffer im spitzensport, france, imran khan, jeffrey lovich, jo dunkley, jorge piedrahita, juergen goller, kopf stehende gesichter, mammoth remains, mickey agha, most intelligent politician, permafrost, russia, schoenheit von gesichtern, sean simpson, skillful sailor, skull, smooth sea, stephanie cone, united states, university of michigan, urintest, wind energy development, wind farm design, wmap project, world leaders

ANN ARBOR — CT scans of two newborn woolly mammoths recovered from the Siberian Arctic are revealing previously inaccessible details about the early development of prehistoric pachyderms. In addition, the X-ray images show that both creatures died from suffocation after inhaling mud.

Lyuba and Khroma, who died at ages 1 and 2 months, respectively, are the most complete and best-preserved baby mammoth specimens ever found. Lyuba’s full-body CT scan, which used an industrial scanner at a Ford testing facility in Michigan, was the first of its kind for any mammoth. (more…)

Martian salts must touch ice to make liquid water, study shows

By Guest PostAugust 26, 2014Scienceatacama desert, atmospheric pressure, atominstitut, Chile, cycle, deliquescence, gullies, liquid water, martian spring, nilton renno, perlenfunde aus eiszeithoehlen, peter rabl, peter zoller, randy dryer, reflected light, schmuck aus mammutelfenbein, schwaebische alb, supraleitende qbits, suresh venkatasubramanian, temperature, university of michigan, virtual punishment

ANN ARBOR — In chambers that mimic Mars’ conditions, University of Michigan researchers have shown how small amounts of liquid water could form on the planet despite its below-freezing temperatures.

Liquid water is an essential ingredient for life as we know it. Mars is one of the very few places in the solar system where scientists have seen promising signs of it – in gullies down crater rims, in instrument readings, and in Phoenix spacecraft self portraits that appeared to show wet beads on the lander’s leg several years ago. (more…)

Should professors engage in public and political debate?

By Guest PostAugust 15, 2014Politics, Scienceandrew Hoffman, climate change, diamonds in sky, erb institute, german chancellor, mixture of, president vladimir putin, professor, public, qatar crisis, trial and error, university of michigan

ANN ARBOR — Andrew Hoffman, a University of Michigan professor who teaches and researches business sustainability at the U-M Stephen M. Ross School of Business, frequently wades into the controversial debate over climate change.

Knowing how and when to do so is something he has figured out through trial and error. Why more academics don’t speak up and what the ground rules should be for those who do is a little hazy. (more…)

Architecture of signaling proteins enhances knowledge of key receptors

By Guest PostJuly 25, 2014Sciencearchitecture, bildungswissenschaftler, damage human tissue, georgios skiniotis, human cell, impeach donald trump, kaushik sengupta, knowledge, marc hill, playboy, response, steve laughlin, terahertz chips, trumps syria attack, university of michigan, wardrobe in india, xue wu

ANN ARBOR — A team of scientists from the University of Michigan, Duke Medicine and Stanford University has determined the underlying architecture of a cellular signaling complex involved in the body’s response to stimuli such as light and pain.

This complex, consisting of a human cell surface receptor and its regulatory protein, reveals a two-step mechanism that has been hypothesized previously but not directly documented. (more…)

U.S. should pursue three-pronged strategy in Iraq

By Guest PostJuly 19, 2014Politicschristine lattin, david hinks, diane swanbrow, dye sensitized, Iraq, middle east, Politics, ruthenium, sociologist, solar energy technologies, university of michigan, US

ANN ARBOR — U.S. efforts to combat terrorism in Iraq and help Iraqis maintain the territorial integrity of their embattled country need to follow three approaches, according to a University of Michigan expert on politics and values in the Middle East. (more…)

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