Steve Rolston is New Chair of the Department of Physics
Steve Rolston is New Chair of the Department of Physics
Dormant Black Hole Becomes X-ray Flashlight
Dormant Black Hole Becomes
X-ray Flashlight
UMD astronomers catch X-ray echoes of a tidal disruption event for the first time.
Gravitational Waves Detected a Second Time
Gravitational Waves Detected a Second Time
UMD physicists help identify new gravitational wave event using data from Advanced LIGO detectors.
Magnetic Reconnection in Space
Magnetic Reconnection in Space
NASA mission, with help from UMD physicists, makes critical step in understanding space weather.
Nation’s Beekeepers Lost 44 Percent of Bees in 2015-16
Nation’s Beekeepers Lost 44 Percent of Bees in 2015-16
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UMD’s Christopher Hain and colleagues played a key role in transitioning the product from the research phase to NOAA operations.
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UMD students hope to construct the largest cyclotron ever built by undergraduates, which will allow them to conduct experiments in nuclear physics.
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Astronomy's A'Hearn and Bodewits contribute to new study of outburst activity on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
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Yorke, Ott, Grebogi named top contenders for Nobel Prize in physics for developing method to control chaos.
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Some compounds commonly regarded as “bee-safe” could be a major contributor to honey bee colony losses in North America.
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With three new detectors coming online in the next several years, scientists are confident they will collect enough geoneutrino data to measure Earth’s fuel level.
