Match Matters: The Right Combination of Parents Can Turn A Gene Off Indefinitely

UMD scientists discover that mating can cause epigenetic changes in nematode worms that last for 300 generations.

Rising Greenhouse Gases Pose Continued Threat to Arctic Ozone Layer

New study shows climate change is increasing ozone depletion over the Arctic.

Quantum Competing

A new industry hub founded on microscopic atoms could generate massive returns for the D.C. region.

Triple Galaxy Merger Sends Mixed Signals

UMD astronomer finds three merging galaxies that offer insights into black hole mergers and galaxy formation.

Senior Linden Yuan Awarded Competitive Defense Fellowship

Yuan will take the fellowship to the University of Illinois, where he will pursue a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering.

Leena Pade is a Cosmos Scholar with Chemistry in Her Blood

How this Ph.D. student went from visiting her father at work to working in his industry.

For Theoretical Chemist Pratyush Tiwary, It’s All About Perspective

The assistant professor balances his life of high-level theory with down-to-Earth human connections.

UMD Grad Students to Showcase Their Insect Knowledge at National Entomology Games

Terp team placed second in the region and earned a spot at the national competition this fall.

JQI Researchers Generate Tunable Twin Particles of Light

JQI researchers and their colleagues describe a new way to make entangled twin particles of light and to tune their properties using a method conveniently housed on a chip, a potential boon for quantum technologies that require a reliable source of well-tailored photon pairs.

The Secrets Atoms Hold, Part 2: Gravity

In this episode of Relatively Certain, JQI Adjunct Fellow Marianna Safronova and JQI Fellow Charles Clark return to discuss the limits of our understanding of gravity, and how new experiments with atom interferometers may be the key to not only a higher-precision understanding of gravity but also possible new physics.

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