How Energy Dissipates Outside Earth’s Magnetic Field
Earth’s magnetic field provides an invisible but crucial barrier that protects Earth from the solar wind–a stream of charged particles launched from the sun’s outer…
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Breakthrough Technique Uses Nanoparticles to Combat Cancer Drug Resistance
The ability for cancer cells to develop resistance to chemotherapy drugs – known as multi-drug resistance – remains a leading cause for tumor recurrence and…
Discovery Helps Researchers Understand How Life May Survive on Other Planets
Three new studies by University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) scientists have identified key factors that help microbes survive in harsh environments. The results,…
Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) Takes Its First Image of the Sky
A new robotic camera with the ability to capture hundreds of thousands of stars and galaxies in a single shot has taken its first image…
Yale Study Shows Gut Bacteria Aggressively Protect Their Territory
A newly published study from Yale University details how human gut bacteria take on many tasks crucial to health. Bacterially speaking, it gets very crowded…
UMD Astronomers Discover a New Mid-size Black Hole in NGC 1313
In a newly published study, astronomers reveal evidence for a new intermediate-mass black hole about 5,000 times the mass of the sun. Nearly all black…
Scientists Reveal the Mystery of Io’s “Misplaced” Volcanoes
A newly published study examines the mystery of Io’s “misplaced” volcanoes, revealing that it has to do with the interaction between heat produced by fluid…
New CERN Study Suggests Subatomic Particles Could Defy the Standard Model
New research from physicists working at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider shows evidence of leptons acting out against time-tested predictions, suggesting that subatomic particles may defy…
Isotopic Evidence Confirms Interconnected Past of the Earth and Moon
A newly published study brings scientists one step closer to understanding the close familial relationship between Earth and the moon. College Park, Maryland – Scientists…
Astronomers Accurately Measure a Black Hole in Galaxy M82
A team of astronomers from the University of Maryland has accurately measured a black hole in galaxy M82, revealing that is about 400 times the…
Martian Meteorites Yield Clues to the Planet’s Early Atmosphere
Using data from meteorites that fell to Earth from Mars, scientists investigate the chemical composition of the Martian atmosphere throughout history, and learn whether the…
Voyager 1 Enters Interstellar Space
In a newly published study, UMD scientists state that Voyager 1 has left our solar system and has entered interstellar space, contradicting recent papers by…
Graphene Hot Electron Bolometer May Outperform Existing Technologies
By using bilayer graphene, researchers at the University of Maryland developed a new type of hot electron bolometer, which is expected to be sensitive to…
Traces of Oil from Deepwater Horizon May Work Their Way up the Food Chain
New research has demonstrated that zooplankton in the Northern Gulf of Mexico accumulated toxic compounds derived from crude oil that rushed from the Macondo well…
‘Collapsing’ Iron Superconductor Capable of Operating at 47 Degrees Kelvin
A team of researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland discovered an iron-based superconductor capable of operating at…