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School of Public Health's Prevention Research Center will receive $3.75 million over five years from the CDC.
Rare “Lazarus Superconductivity” Observed in Promising, Rediscovered Material
In a uranium-based compound once dismissed as uninteresting, scientists watched superconductivity arise, disappear, then return under the influence of high magnetic fields
Scientists Discover Interaction Between Good and Bad Fungi Drive Forest Biodiversity
UMD and Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers find that differences in soil fungi explain why individual trees thrive best when among only a few others of their species, a phenomenon that promotes forest diversity.
UMD Researchers to Investigate Effects of Fetal Exposure to Opioids
Work is part of a broad NIH HEAL Initiative to find scientific solutions to reversing the national opioid crisis
Enzyme Known for Promoting Cancer Also Protects Healthy Cells
UMD researchers discovered that telomerase, which “immortalizes” cancer cells, also prevents tumors and slows a key stage in normal cell death
UMD-Led Astronomy Team Finds Golden Glow From a Distant Stellar Collision
Astronomers re-examined data from a 2016 gamma-ray burst and found a signature that perfectly matches a gold- and platinum-producing explosion observed by LIGO in 2017
University of Maryland researchers created 1,213 questions in collaboration with computers to identify flaws in machine-learning language models
UMD Study Shows Positive Impact of Green Infrastructure for Stormwater
UMD Researchers and Resilinc Corp. Create Index of Climate Change Risk to Company Supply Chains