Sebastian Deffner and co-author Anthony Bartolotta are extending thermodynamics, a fundamental pillar of physics, into uncharted territory by developing a way to describe microscopic systems with...
March 6, 2018
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Smoke particles provide "seeds" that increase cooling by helping form clouds, and as a result, "The seeding effect is winning," over the warming effect of smoke blocking the clouds from reflecting...
March 5, 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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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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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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Lee Blaney, associate professor of chemical, biochemical and environmental engineering, was one of two people to receive the 2017 Outstanding Young Engineering Award, and Philip Graff ’08,...
November 22, 2017
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Nine distinguished faculty and alumni shared their stories at GRIT-X, a TED talk-style event during UMBC’s Homecoming that took listeners "from outer space to inner space, from a makerspace to the...
October 18, 2017
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