SOFIA Captures First Clear View of a Boiling Cosmic Cauldron Where Stars Are Born
UMD-led team used NASA’s SOFIA telescope to capture high-resolution details of a star nursery in the Milky Way. University of Maryland researchers created the first…
UMD-led team used NASA’s SOFIA telescope to capture high-resolution details of a star nursery in the Milky Way. University of Maryland researchers created the first…
New research shows climate change is increasing ozone depletion over the Arctic. There is a high-takes race going on high in the atmosphere above the…
Spinning or rotating objects are commonplace, from toy tops and fidget spinners to spinning figure skaters. And from water circling a drain to far less…
Finding could explain why snoring and disrupted sleep are associated with behavioral problems including inattention, hyperactivity, and aggression. Children who regularly snore have structural changes…
Collaborative research shows more severe slowdowns in warmer regions like Africa and Latin America. The University of Maryland (UMD) has collaborated with Cornell University and…
UMD-led research identifies age-related changes to DNA and reveals longevity-related differences between bat species. A new study led by University of Maryland and UCLA researchers…
64 Human Genomes Sequenced Will Serve as New Reference for Genetic Variation and Predisposition to Human Diseases Researchers at the University of Maryland School of…
Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) have conducted a study that has determined the role that a critical protein plays in…
Engineers at the University of Maryland (UMD) have created a new shape-changing or “morphing” 3D printing nozzle that was featured as a Frontispiece in the…
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…