New study determines that black holes discharge the energy in their plasma jets much farther away from the black hole’s center than previously thought, resolving…
Important new findings from UM School of Medicine could help guide healthcare clinicians with managing hospitalized patients in the weeks ahead. Hospitalized COVID-19 patients have…
Researchers hacked a robotic vacuum cleaner to record speech and music remotely. A team of researchers demonstrated that popular robotic household vacuum cleaners can be…
Research Could Accelerate Efforts to Develop New Anti-Viral Drugs to Fight Flu, Ebola, and Novel Coronaviruses like COVID-19. Researchers at the University of Maryland School…
In the early evening of Sunday, October 7, 1900—120 years ago—Max Planck found the functional form of the curve that we now know as the…
New, most complete start-to-finish view of neutron star merger rewrites the way scientists understand these events. It’s been three years since the landmark detection of…
Thanks to Einstein, we know that our three-dimensional space is warped and curved. And in curved space, normal ideas of geometry and straight lines break…
Ph.D. student Steven Fons’ Arctic research adventure, complicated by COVID-19. For Steven Fons, returning home to D.C. in June was like coming back from another…
New 3D model provides evidence that Venus is churning inside. A new study identified 37 recently active volcanic structures on Venus. The study provides some…
University of Maryland researcher discovers important ocean blender effect that may influence climate and fisheries from Florida to Newfoundland. New research provides the first direct…
Research shows how humans can shield machine learning from manipulation. Artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies are poised to supercharge productivity in the knowledge economy,…
Beekeepers across the United States lost 43.7% of their managed honey bee colonies from April 2019 to April 2020, according to preliminary results of the…
University of Maryland researchers conduct first simultaneous analysis of hundreds of earthquakes to identify echoes from features deep inside Earth. University of Maryland geophysicists analyzed…
University of Maryland researchers launch the Maryland Emergency Department Drug Surveillance (EDDS) System — call for expanded fentanyl testing by hospitals. A new University of…
University of Maryland researcher develops potentially revolutionary framework for heredity and evolution in which inheritable information is stored outside the genome. The common view of…
Research finds leg length gave giant predatory dinosaurs the advantage of efficiency, not speed as previously thought. Long legs may make good runners, but they’re…
Used in refrigeration and HVAC systems around the world, current cooling technology has plateaued in both efficiency and environmental impact. An international research team led…
World-renowned climate scientist J. Shukla calls the new paper by University of Maryland scientists ‘a very important paper in the history of predictability research.’ University…