Ovarian cancer is often diagnosed after it has already spread to other parts of the body, at which point the five-year survival rate is under 30 percent. Further complicating treatment, standard...
On Sunday, August 30, after more than a decade of development, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The telescope, with a field of...
Large-scale oyster reef restoration in the Chesapeake Bay is successfully creating three-dimensional habitats that support larger, more diverse fish communities, according to new research from...
An airplane does not simply fly in one continuous arc; pilots or software flip between modes like climb, cruise, or land. A humanoid robot’s leg swings continuously through the air as it walks,...
UMBC undergraduate students Noah Reichardt and Morgan Robbins spent this summer in Hawai‘i at one of the world’s top astronomy institutes, studying supermassive black holes and colliding galaxies,...
Akshay Java (Photo courtesy of Java) Akshay Java, M.S. ’03, Ph.D. ’08, computer science, is a seasoned technology leader whose career spans key roles across the tech industry, including...
Spoiler alert! The first Spider-Man movie with Tom Holland as Peter Parker, “Homecoming,” was released almost a decade ago in 2017. Mercedes Burns, associate professor of biological sciences...
Every morning this summer, junior biological sciences major Magdalen Ruth made her way to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda—a dense hub of biomedical research. There, at the National...
Izabella Maria Marzano, a senior biological sciences major who transferred to UMBC from Anne Arundel Community College, was one of more than 120 undergraduate and high school student presenters...
Dong Li (Photo courtesy of Li) A common saying is “Health is wealth.” Its meaning—that good health gives people the vitality to succeed in life—is found in stories and phrases across cultures...