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Some 600 vials stored in a UM freezer for more than 30 years may hold keys to rescuing nearly extinct Tahitian land snails.

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Firms that take responsibility for poor business performance in their corporate annual reports have higher stock prices one year later, says a researcher.

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Software under development eventually could power computerized caregivers---nurses' aides of the future---to remind the elderly or people with brain trauma to perform tasks, and even help them navigate their surroundings.

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Children with caring and involved parents are more likely to have relatively good physical and mental health throughout adulthood, according to researchers.

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It's a bitter irony of cancer therapy: treatments powerful enough to kill tumor cells also harm healthy ones, causing side effects that diminish the quality of the lives that are saved.

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An experiment which forced E. coli bacteria to adapt or perish showed that, in a pinch, they were capable of improvising a novel molecular tool to save their skins.

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When someone's spinal cord is completely severed, brain signals can no longer reach the legs to tell the legs to walk. However, a new study shows that those who have suffered a spinal cord injury can generate muscle activity independent of brain signals.

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A study of more than 6,000 African American, Afro-Caribbean and non-Hispanic white adults---the first known study to include a national probability sample of Blacks of Caribbean ancestry---shows strikingly different patterns of prevalence of major mental and physical disorders within the U.S. Black population.

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Nearly one out of three African Americans report that they have been unfairly stopped, searched and physically abused or threatened by the police, according to findings from a new study.

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Corporate boards and compensation committees are relatively ineffective safeguards against the use of manipulated earnings as a basis of CEO pay, a new study finds.

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Atmospheric researchers have provided observational evidence that burning fossil fuels has a direct impact on the solar radiation reflectivity of clouds, thereby contributing to global climate change.

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The proportion of 35-year-olds who abuse alcohol and use illicit drugs is higher than might be expected, a study shows.

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The proportion of American 10th- and 12th-grade students who reported using the drug ecstasy in the prior 12 months has fallen by more than half just since 2001. The usage rate among eighth-graders is down considerably, as well, over the same two-year interval.

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Cigarette use among American adolescents has been falling since the mid-1990s, with smoking rates among younger teens dropping by roughly one-half. The 2003 results from the Monitoring the Future annual series of nationwide surveys, released today, show that declines in teen smoking continued into 2003.

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As tropical forests and other ecologically sensitive areas throughout the world rapidly disappear, conservationists often find themselves scrambling to identify and protect critical habitat before it is destroyed.

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Dividends to shareholders are up despite fewer firms paying them.

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Blue, red and white waves dance inside a ball-shaped structure on a computer screen, colliding, careening and stretching in peculiar ways. This is what happens inside Earth when an earthquake occurs.

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Many scientists look for new drugs by synthesizing compounds in their laboratories. David Sherman dives for sea sponges and sediment off the coast, islands and reef systems of Papau New Guinea in the South Pacific.

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Parents and policy makers will soon be able to tap into a new federally funded online archive to find the latest and most trustworthy academic research on child care.

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As the nation debates many topics---from the environment to war---during the 2004 presidential election, the University of Michigan has various experts to offer insight on the issues until voters cast their ballots on Nov. 2, 2004.

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Notebook, rock hammer, compass, clipboard, topographic maps and aerial photographs---these are the tools that generations of geology students have used to learn the science and hone their mapping and observation skills in the field.

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Small interpersonal acts of compassion in the workplace have significant, far-reaching effects on co-workers, according to a new study.

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An upcoming conference could inject some insight and objectivity into the complex, often emotional contest over pharmaceutical reimportation.

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The American mastodon, a massive, tusk-bearing relative of elephants, inhabited much of North America until its extinction just 10,000 years ago. Mastodons are often portrayed browsing peacefully on vegetation or lumbering around in small family groups. But mastodons may have had an aggressive side as well.

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The SARS virus is capable of changing rapidly and unpredictably, which could present serious challenges for managing the disease and developing drugs and vaccines to combat it, research suggests.

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Despite new initiatives by the Bush administration to address long-time job declines in U.S. manufacturing, an economist says the outlook for American factory jobs remains bleak.

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The 35,000 or so genes within a human cell are something like players on a sports team: If their activity isn't controlled and coordinated, the result can be disastrous.

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Global warming isn't what it used to be.

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Advertising on television shows with violent or sexual content is bad business, a new study confirms.

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Staying on task and impersonal at work may actually be a barrier to productivity in today's multicultural business environment, a researcher says.

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Azteca ants are voracious predators that live on coffee plants and aggressively defend their territories. That's generally good for the coffee plants, which are protected in the process against all sorts of insect pests.

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The University of Michigan Museum of Zoology is collaborating with 16 other research institutions, including the Michigan State University Museum, on an innovative project that will allow simultaneous electronic access to members' mammal collection databases.

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America's weak economic recovery since the end of the recession in November 2001 has been longer, more severe and more widespread than the similar recovery of the early 1990s, says a University of Michigan economist.

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As they grow older, many people find that the tasks they used to take for granted, like putting groceries away or lifting their grandchildren, become increasingly difficult because aging muscles lose their ability to generate both power and force.

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As much as 70 percent of a person's likelihood of developing cancer can be attributed to his or her behavior. But getting people to change their unhealthy ways is a complex challenge.

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Treating all middle-aged women with identical bone-protection therapies risks viewing aging and menopause as interchangeable conditions. A new study by the University of Michigan examines the difference between aging and menopause as they relate to women"šs bones.

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Nanotechnology researchers may soon be able to design new types of tiny shuttles or conveyor belts which could be used to deliver medications to specific cells or to replace wires in molecular-sized electronic devices.

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University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman has named noted physician, researcher and health care leader Robert P. Kelch to serve as the University"šs executive vice president for medical affairs and lead the U-M Health System, pending the approval of the Board of Regents.

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Four University of Michigan research teams received $7.28 million of funding from the Michigan Life Sciences Corridor in grants announced Wednesday by the state of Michigan.

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Contrary to commonly held assumptions, African Americans are as concerned as white Americans -- and in some cases more so -- about environmental issues.

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Girls and boys who are confident in their math abilities tend to pick a science career based on their values more than on their skills, a study by two University of Michigan researchers suggests.

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In the push to develop hydrogen fuel cells for powering automobiles, cell phones, laptop computers and other devices, one of the biggest challenges has been finding ways of storing large amounts of hydrogen at normally encountered temperatures and pressures.

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Despite a decade of highly publicized advances in genetics, U.S. adults know no more about genetic testing than they did in 1990, according to a University of Michigan study.

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Defects in a cargo receptor that shuttles proteins from one place to another within the cell lie at the root of a rare bleeding disorder, according to a study.

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At every age, American males have poorer health and a higher risk of mortality than females, according to a University of Michigan report.

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Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm will deliver the main address and receive an honorary degree when the University of Michigan holds its spring commencement exercises on Saturday, April 26 in Michigan Stadium.

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A new study suggests that agriculture can successfully coexist with continuing population growth and urban sprawl in some areas of the Great Plains.

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With the debate underway regarding post-war control of Iraq, a University of Michigan professor says the rebuilding efforts and political control should be handled by the United Nations, not the United States or another country.

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Two billion years ago, in a far-away galaxy, a giant star exploded, releasing almost unbelievable amounts of energy as it collapsed to a black hole. The light from that explosion finally reached Earth at 6:37 a.m. EST on March 29, igniting a frenzy of activity among astronomers worldwide.

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While many questions remain unanswered about Sudden Acute Respiratory Syndrome, University of Michigan experts are available to help understand what is known about SARS, the process of solving the remaining mysteries and how the public should respond to this public health threat.