While working in the city comes with challenges, Chris Swan hopes to discover a Goldilocks concoction of plants that tolerate the poor soil found in vacant lots, attract native pollinators, and...
February 16, 2018
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Thomas Smith and Yanhua Shih are hoping their new research will bring about a sea change in the physics community, and encourage even the most traditional physicists that quantum interference...
February 12, 2018
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“I’m hoping that in the future many people will be working in this area of cellular biochemistry, studying many metabolic enzymes in living cells,” says Songon An, whose work is on the leading...
January 30, 2018
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To address such big ideas, “You need the solar system as your laboratory,” says Sander Goossens. NASA's MESSENGER satellite collected data during its years orbiting Mercury that enabled the...
January 29, 2018
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People have pinned their hopes on quantum computers for the next leap forward in computing technology, “but my recent research has revealed that quantum computers will have limits of their own,"...
January 18, 2018
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UMBC celebrated so many milestones in the past year. In thousands of ways, big and small, the UMBC community made their mark on 2017. Here are 12 top highlights.
January 12, 2018
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The new finding “is attacking the bugaboo of this whole class of possible quantum computers,” says Jason Kestner. And yet, like so much in science, the finding “is something we stumbled across...
January 10, 2018
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“The scientific community thinks that the way this works is that females prefer the bells and whistles of their own species, and that’s how species stay apart,” Tamra Mendelson says. “And our...
December 19, 2017
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Handling in-flight challenges on the spot showed the students “how the science gets done in real life,” Brian Carroll says. The flight experience met the initiative’s goal to provide experiential...
December 14, 2017
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Improper circadian clock function has already been linked to illnesses from diabetes to depression in humans. Plant science could grow our understanding. “As researchers continue to untangle more...
December 1, 2017
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