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Researchers Unlock High-Res View of 2D Materials by Doing a Microscopic Twist
By rapidly twisting a microscopically small tip back and forth, researchers at the University of Maryland (UMD) have unlocked a new way to detect subtle changes on the surface of a material flexing in response to infrared light. In a paper published Aug. 5,… Read More - Research News
Researchers Explore How Quantum Computers—and Their Errors—May Enhance AI
Quantum computing and AI are among the most rapidly developing modern technologies. AI, in the form of machine learning, has been deployed for decades to recommend movies and TV shows and make it easier to search for images. Over the past several years, large… Read More - Research News
A New Kind of Entanglement Helps Quantum Sensors Tune Out Noise
In a quest to build the most accurate sensors in the world, scientists are constantly improving their performance. Making them more precise, stable and reliable. But eventually, physical constraints will prevent further improvements. “By fully embracing the laws of quantum physics, one can expand… Read More - Research News
Lepton Flavor Universality Tests Using Bc+ Decays at LHCb
UMD graduate student Emily Jiang delivered a CERN seminar on May 19, 2026, unveiling an important new result on studies of Lepton Flavor Universality using decays of the heaviest B meson, Bc+, which has quark contents of a bottom-quark and anti-charm quark. The result is primarily… Read More - Research News
Sudden Breakups of Monogamous Quantum Couples Surprise Researchers
Quantum particles have a social life, of a sort. They interact and form relationships with each other, and one of the most important features of a quantum particle is whether it is an introvert—a fermion—or an extrovert—a boson. Extroverted bosons are happy to crowd… Read More - Research News
When Superfluids Collide, Physicists Find a Mix of Old and New
Physics is often about recognizing patterns, sometimes repeated across vastly different scales. For instance, moons orbit planets in the same way planets orbit stars, which in turn orbit the center of a galaxy. When researchers first studied the structure of atoms, they were tempted… Read More - Research News
With Passive Approach, New Chips Reliably Unlock Color Conversion
Over the past several decades, researchers have been making rapid progress in harnessing light to enable all sorts of scientific and industrial applications. From creating stupendously accurate clocks to processing the petabytes of information zipping through data centers, the demand for turnkey technologies that… Read More - Research News
Researchers Identify Groovy Way to Beat Diffraction Limit
Physics is full of pesky limits. There are speed limits, like the speed of light. There are limits on how much matter and energy can be crammed into a region of space before it collapses into a black hole. There are even limits on… Read More - Research News
Researchers Imagine Novel Quantum Foundations for Gravity
Questioning assumptions and imagining new explanations for familiar phenomena are often necessary steps on the way to scientific progress. For example, humanity’s understanding of gravity has been overturned multiple times. For ages, people assumed heavier objects always fall quicker than lighter objects. Eventually, Galileo… Read More
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Chasing Neutrinos at the ‘End of the World’ It took one week, five flights and a slow ride on a six-wheeled bus for Rachel Procter-Murphy to arrive at her dream destination: the South Pole. Rachel Procter-Murphy in Antarctica assisting with an installation at the IceCube observatory. Photo courtesy of same. Last fall, the… Read More -
A ‘Groundbreaking, Earth-Shattering, Universe-Defining’ Mission This fall, when all the final system checks are done and the countdown ticks to the final second, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will blast off the launchpad at Kennedy Space Center—and no one will be more geeked than Jackie Townsend (B.S. ’94, physics).… Read More -
Kara Hoffman Named Chair of Department of Physics Professor Kara Hoffman was named chair of the Department of Physics, effective July 1, 2026. “Kara Hoffman brings to this role a record of scholarly achievement and an understanding of the department's strengths and aspirations,” said Amitabh Varshney, dean of UMD’s College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences.… Read More -
Childhood Physics Fun Leads to Twin PhDs When Sylvester James Gates III (B.S. ’15, biological sciences) graduates from the University of Maryland with his Ph.D. in biological sciences this month, it will be a family affair—and a homecoming. Sylvester grew up near College Park. His father, Distinguished University Professor of Physics Sylvester James Gates… Read More
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