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(We talk to U-M astronomer John Monnier and graduate student Ming Zhao. They led an international team that combined light from four widely separated telescopes to produce the first picture showing surface details on a sun-like star beyond our solar system. It was a rapidly rotating, hot star called Altair.)

(Michigan will be a poorer state over the next decade, but its universities and resources like the Great Lakes can help reverse its declining economy.)

(People with diabetes who keep their blood sugar in check today will probably have a far lower chance of developing foot pain or other nerve damage tomorrow.)

(Knowing the past sheds light on future possibilities.)

(Every year since 1975, University of Michigan researcher Lloyd Johnston's team has conducted the Monitoring the Future study of 50,000 young Americans. In this first part of a multi-part interview, Johnston describes how the survey that has interviewed more than 1 million people all began.)

(Current UAW contract talks with U.S. automakers may be the most important in decades.)

(discussion with professor about ACL injuries and research into these.)

(Engineering professor Zoran Filipi believes plug-in hybrid electric vehicles will be common on the highways of tomorrow. He explains how they work and why they could help reduce greenhouse gases.)

(Birches will likely drive out aspens in northern forests as carbon dioxide levels continue to mount in coming decades.)

(Jude and Hensler discovered that newly hatched round gobies leave their lake bottom homes and swim to the surface at night, a nocturnal migration that increases the chances that large numbers of hatchlings will get sucked into the ballast tanks of Great Lakes freighters.)