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Mobile Math: Connecting Students to STEM Through Sports

14 Jun 23

Astronomers Discover Supernova Explosion Through Rare ‘Cosmic Magnifying Glasses’

12 Jun 23

A view from Hubble Space Telescope shows a dazzling display of lights in the sky, including the afterglow of GRB 221009A

New Study Finds Unique Structure of the ‘BOAT’—Brightest Gamma-ray Burst of All Time

07 Jun 23

An illustration of NASA's Parker Solar Probe flying in front of the sun

New Study Identifies Mechanism Driving the Sun’s Fast Wind

07 Jun 23

Is AI-Generated Content Actually Detectable?

30 May 23

An illustration of Comet Read

UMD Astronomer Leads Study that Finds Water, and a New Mystery, in Rare Main Belt Comet

15 May 23

Red mechano-chemical waves (actin waves) guide the signaling molecules (green).

Insight into How Cells Get Signals from Physical Senses Could Lead to New Disease Treatments

11 May 23

UMD Leads New $20M NSF Institute for Trustworthy AI in Law and Society

04 May 23

Mars interior

Scientists Detect Seismic Waves Traveling Through Martian Core for the First Time

24 Apr 23

Nathan Schine

Nathan Schine Twists Photons and Cools Atoms in a Unique Quantum Dance

17 Mar 23

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Sixteen CMNS Projects Receive Inaugural UMD Grand Challenges Grants

16 Feb 23

Associate Professor Nick Schmerr, left, with pilot Troy McKerral, behind a GPS station with a solar panel, recording unit, and antenna. The bamboo pole helps the retrieval team find the equipment, since the ice shelf can move a meter per day.

Research at the Frozen End of the Earth

02 Feb 23

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