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Study: How Much Information Can Be Extracted from Galaxy Clustering at the Field Level? (DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett. Research led by the University of Michigan could help put cosmology on the inside track to reaching the full potential of telescopes and other instruments studying some of the universe's largest looming questions.

Study: Extreme rainfall disproportionately impacts E. coli concentrations in Texas recreational water bodies (DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv. Nobody wants to share a day on the water with E. coli. The bacteria is a sure sign of fecal contamination, which is washed into waterways from farm fields or sewage systems by rain.

Community program and policy interventions aimed at reducing screen time are less successful in neighborhoods that lack green space Study: Neighborhood environments underpin screen time intervention success in children: Evidence from a study of greenspace and community programming across 130 US communities (DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.

Study: Mantle oxidation by sulfur drives the formation of giant gold deposits in subduction zones (DOI: 10.1073/pnas. A research team including a University of Michigan scientist has discovered a new gold-sulphur complex that helps researchers understand how gold deposits are formed. Gold in ore deposits associated with volcanoes around the Pacific Ring of Fire originates in Earth's mantle and is transported by magma to its surface.

U-M research finds connections between mood and circadian rhythm disruptions in new study using Fitbit data from hundreds of medical interns Study: The real-world association between digital markers of circadian disruption and mental health risks (DOI: 10.1038/s41746-024-01348-6) Sleep schedules are often one of the first things that people choose to compromise in order to check everything off their to-do lists, especially with the end of the year approaching.

Using South Korea as an example, researchers also find general war experiences may have opposite effect Study: Can a Sense of Shared War Experience Increase Refugee Acceptance? (DOI: 10. Highlighting shared wartime experiences can foster greater acceptance of refugees, according to new research from the University of Michigan.

Study: Ethnic Studies and Student Development: Cultivating Racially Marginalized Adolescents- Critical Consciousness (DOI: 10.1037/dev0001850) High school students enrolled in ethnic studies develop the ability to think analytically about the causes of social inequalities, a University of Michigan study suggests.

Study: High temperatures are associated with decreased immune system performance in a wild primate (DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adq6629) The immune performance of wild capuchin monkeys declines when the animals experience higher temperatures, and younger monkeys seem to be particularly vulnerable to heat, according to a University of Michigan study.

Within a cell, DNA carries the genetic code for building proteins. To build proteins, the cell makes a copy of DNA, called mRNA. Then, another molecule called a ribosome reads the mRNA, translating it into protein. But this step has been a visual mystery: scientists previously did not know how the ribosome attaches to and reads mRNA.

U-M study finds that morning glory plants that can resist weed killer can also fend off chewing insects Study: Herbicidal interference: glyphosate drives both the ecology and evolution of plant-herbivore interactions (DOI: 10.1111/nph. Morning glory plants that can resist the effects of glyphosate also resist damage from herbivorous insects, according to a University of Michigan study.

Friends play an essential role in everyone's life, offering companionship and a safe space to share personal thoughts and feelings. A recent University of Michigan study reveals important information about the patterns and supportive functions of friendships among African Americans. One intriguing aspect is that separated, divorced, widowed and never-married individuals interacted with friends more frequently than married ones.

Study: Amyloid Accelerator Polyphosphate Implicated as the Mystery Density in α-Synuclein Fibrils (DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio. Research led by the University of Michigan has provided compelling evidence that could solve a fundamental mystery in the makeup of fibrils that play a role in Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other neurodegenerative diseases.

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument is helping researchers explore the 'Big Bang played in reverse' Study: DESI Dark Energy Time Evolution is Recovered by Cosmologically Coupled Black Holes (DOI: 10. Almost 14 billion years ago, at the very beginning of the Big Bang, a mysterious energy drove an exponential expansion of the infant universe and produced all known matter, according to the prevailing inflationary universe theory.

Some sick Black patients are likely labeled as "healthy- in AI datasets due to inequitable medical testing Black patients are less likely than white patients to receive medical tests that doctors use to diagnose severe disease, such as sepsis, researchers at the University of Michigan have shown. Because of the bias, some sick Black patients are assumed to be healthy in data used to train AI, and the resulting models likely underestimate illness in Black patients.

Study: Links between adolescent binge drinking and midlife alcohol use behaviors by age, sex, and race/ethnicity (DOI: 10.1111/acer. The high school party days never really ended for a surprising number of middle-aged adults. A University of Michigan study reveals that adults aged 35 to 60 are drinking at unprecedented rates, with a striking link between high school binge drinking and risky midlife alcohol consumption.

Study: Superluminal proper motion in the X-ray jet of Centaurus A (DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad73a1) Research led by the University of Michigan has pored over more than two decades' worth of data from NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory to show there's new knotty science to discover around black holes.

Early exposure to harsh parenting during preschool years can have widespread effects on the organization of the entire brain's communication. Later exposures affect specific brain areas. Study: Developmental timing of associations among parenting, brain architecture, and mental health (DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.

Study: In search of the genetic variants of human sex ratio at birth: was Fisher wrong about sex ratio evolution? (DOI: doi.org/10.1098/rspb. Each year, roughly the same numbers of boys and girls are born. But in individual families, some couples have four or more daughters and no sons, and some have all male children and no female children, points out University of Michigan evolutionary geneticist Jianzhi Zhang.

Although all'ecosystems are affected by a changing climate, the impacts can take a while to appear. Changes in forest biodiversity, for example, are known to lag behind changes in a habitat's temperature and precipitation. Study: Rapid shifts in grassland communities driven by climate change (DOI: 10.1038/s41559'024 -02552-z) Grasslands, on the other hand, are responding to climate change almost in real time, according to new research by the University of Michigan.

The finding represents a 'huge step' toward finding habitable planets outside our solar system Study: JWST/NIRISS Reveals the Water-rich 'Steam World' Atmosphere of GJ 9827 d (DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ad6f00) Nearly 100 light years away, there's a planet unlike any we've seen before. The planet, known as GJ 9827 d, is roughly twice the size of Earth and has an atmosphere composed almost entirely of water vapor, according to a new study.