Research News
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University of Maryland mathematicians provide a mathematical explanation for a previously uncertain law of physics, revealing when the law applies and when it doesn’t.
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Data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) reveal start-to-finish sequence of an outburst from comet 46P/Wirtanen.
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University of Maryland researchers showed sight deprivation changes how groups of neurons work together and alters their sensitivity to different frequencies.
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Researchers at the University of Maryland developed a new tool based on genetic evolution that automatically learned to evade censorship in China, India and Kazakhstan.
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An international team including University of Maryland scientists revealed how genetic variations in a single species of bacteria can amplify infection.
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Research at UMD’s National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) shows that social influence can impact small-scale fishers’ catch portfolios.
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Global study confirms caribou as longest migrator and reveals even greater distances traveled by animals without regular migratory pattern.
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A UMD-led team chemically engineered carbon nanotubes to synthesize and trap trions—quasi-particles potentially useful in bioimaging, chemical sensing and quantum computing.
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In a uranium-based compound once dismissed as uninteresting, scientists watched superconductivity arise, disappear, then return under the influence of high magnetic fields.
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University of Maryland and Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers found that differences in soil fungus explain why tree species fare better in small numbers, a phenomenon that promotes forest diversity
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Zwicky Transient Facility observations reveal surprising transformations from sleepy LINER galaxies to blazing quasars within months.
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The discovery by UMD researchers suggests “functional mosaicism” could explain some antibiotic resistance and cancer relapse.