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Molecular Tug-of-war Gives Cells Their Shape
In a new study, University of Maryland researchers have demystified the process by which cells receive their shape—and it all starts with a protein called actin. Actin is a key component of the cytoskeleton that provides structure to cells, much like how our skeletons… Read More - Research News
UMD Team Leads a New Test of Universality of Leptons at the LHCb Experiment
The LHCb collaboration has presented a new test of the universality of the electroweak properties of leptons. Nearly seven years of analysis of LHCb data by University of Maryland physicists Phoebe Hamilton and Hassan Jawahery and CERN collaborator Greg Ciezarek led to the results… Read More - Research News
Quantum Gases Keep Their Cool, Prompting New Mysteries
Quantum physics is a notorious rule-breaker. For example, it makes the classical laws of thermodynamics, which describe how heat and energy move around, look more like guidelines than ironclad natural laws. In some experiments, a quantum object can keep its cool despite sitting next… Read More - Research News
Beyond Higgs: The Search for New Particles That Could Solve Mysteries of the Universe
An elusive elementary particle called the Higgs boson is partly to thank for life as we know it. No other elementary particles in the early universe had mass until they interacted with a field associated with the Higgs boson, enabling the emergence of planets,… Read More - Research News
Compact Electron Accelerator Reaches New Speeds with Nothing But Light
Scientists harnessing precise control of ultrafast lasers have accelerated electrons over a 20-centimeter stretch to speeds usually reserved for particle accelerators the size of 10 football fields. A team at the University of Maryland (UMD) headed by Professor of Physics and Electrical and Computer… Read More - Research News
Quantum Computers Are Starting to Simulate the World of Subatomic Particles
There is a heated race to make quantum computers deliver practical results. But this race isn't just about making better technology—usually defined in terms of having fewer errors and more qubits, which are the basic building blocks that store quantum information. At least for… Read More - Research News
Bilayer Graphene Inspires Two-Universe Cosmological Model
Physicists sometimes come up with crazy stories that sound like science fiction. Some turn out to be true, like how the curvature of space and time described by Einstein was eventually borne out by astronomical measurements. Others linger on as mere possibilities or mathematical… Read More - Research News
New Perspective Blends Quantum and Classical to Understand Quantum Rates of Change
There is nothing permanent except change. This is perhaps never truer than in the fickle and fluctuating world of quantum mechanics. The quantum world is in constant flux. The properties of quantum particles flit between discrete, quantized states without any possibility of ever being… Read More - Research News
Tug-of-War Unlocks Menagerie of Quantum Phases of Matter
Phases are integral to how we define our world. We navigate through the phases of our lives, from child to teenager to adult, chaperoned along the way by our changing traits and behaviors. Nature, too, undergoes phase changes. Lakes can freeze for the winter,… Read More
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Nov 16, 2022 Sankar Das Sarma Named Highly Cited Researcher Sankar Das Sarma has again been included on Clarivate Analytics list of Highly Cited Researchers, a compilation of influential names in science. Das Sarma is the Richard E. Prange Chair of Physics, the Director of the Condensed Matter Theory Center and a Fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute. After receiving his… Read More -
Oct 13, 2022 Dragt Awarded Robert R. Wilson Prize The American Physical Society (APS) has honored Professor Emeritus Alex Dragt with the 2023 Robert R. Wilson Prize for Achievement in the Physics of Particle Accelerators. He was cited "for pioneering contributions to the development and application of Lie methods in accelerator physics and nonlinear… Read More -
Sep 1, 2022 Blessing the World With More Leons On a warm June afternoon in 2022, a group of friends, family members and former coworkers gathered around a Bradford pear tree outside NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center to remember a physicist named Leon Herreid. Herreid studied physics as a Ph.D. student at the University… Read More -
Sep 6, 2022 From Unexpected Opportunity to Game-changing Discovery In the world of startups, opportunity can come knocking in strange ways. Six years ago, Didier Depireux (Ph.D. ’91, physics) was doing research at the University of Maryland when he was approached by Sam Owen, a young scientist who said he’d developed a device to… Read More
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