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University of Maryland Astronomers Find X-rays Lingering Years After Landmark Neutron Star Collision

New, most complete start-to-finish view of neutron star merger rewrites the way scientists understand these events.

October 9, 2020
Mind and Space Bending Physics on a Convenient Chip

Researchers from JQI, UMD Department of Physics, NIST and QuICS are collaborating to understand quantum simulations of hyperbolic space.

October 7, 2020
University of Maryland Astronomers Find X-rays Lingering Years After Landmark Neutron Star Collision

New, most complete start-to-finish view of neutron star merger rewrites the way scientists understand these events.

October 7, 2020
UMD Researchers Develop Tools to Sharpen 3D View of Large RNA Molecules

New technique breaks through a technology roadblock that limited RNA imaging for 50 years.

October 7, 2020
UMD Biologist Awarded $1.5 Million to Develop Brain Mapping Techniques

NIH’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program will fund a project that could transform efforts to understand how neurons are wired.

October 6, 2020
Machine Learning: Harnessing the Predictive Power of Computers

Researchers in our college are using machine learning for applications that touch many aspects of our lives—from weather prediction and health care to transportation, finance and wildlife conservation.

September 29, 2020
Alexey Gorshkov Elected APS Fellow
The JQI fellow is one of 163 APS members to join the select group this year.
September 28, 2020
The Secrets Atoms Hold, Part 1: Search for Dark Matter

In this episode of Relatively Certain, Dina Genkina sits down with JQI Adjunct Fellow Marianna Safronova, a physics professor at the University of Delaware, and JQI Fellow Charles Clark, an adjunct professor of physics at UMD and a fellow of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, to talk about how precision measurements with atoms might shed some light on matter that’s otherwise dark.

September 25, 2020
Alumnus Makes $515K Donation to Support Physics Students

The generous gift from Charles Husar (B.S. '71) will provide fellowships and summer research and travel awards.

September 23, 2020
Goldwater Scholar Hopes to Make His Mark in the World of Accelerator Physics
Scott Moroch built his own nuclear fusion reactor in high school.
September 23, 2020
The Extraordinary Adventures of Lifelong Terp, Jordan Goodman
The particle astrophysicist describes his five decades at UMD as an Indiana Jones-style adventure.
September 23, 2020
A Physics Career of a Thousand Steps
A native of Iran, Zohreh Davoudi started down the path of becoming a theoretical physicist at an early age.
September 23, 2020