Study of vaccine-related Facebook ads reveals ongoing challenges to public health In a year that has seen the largest measles outbreak in the US in more than two decades, the role of social... Read more
Technology developed at the University of Maryland could safely reduce malaria mosquito populations, including insecticide-resistant strains According to the World Health Organization, malar... Read more
Despite decades of innovation in fabrics with high-tech thermal properties that keep marathon runners cool or alpine hikers warm, there has never been a material that changes its insulating... Read more
Scaling Up Search for Analogies Could Be Key to Innovation Investment in research is at an all-time high, yet the rate of scientific breakthroughs isn’t setting any records. To resolve... Read more
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Radical solutions to climate change might save lives, but a commentary in the October 2018 issue of the journal Nature Climate Change calls for caution because geoengineering still lacks a... Read more
University of Virginia mechanical engineers and materials scientists, in collaboration with materials scientists at Penn State, the University of Maryland and the National Institute of Stand... Read more
Transistors are tiny switches that form the bedrock of modern computing; billions of them route electrical signals around inside a smartphone, for instance. Quantum computers will need analo... Read more
Scientists have synthesized a new cathode material from iron fluoride that surpasses the capacity limits of traditional lithium-ion batteries As the demand for smartphones, electric v... Read more
Trapping light with an optical version of a whispering gallery, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a nanoscale coating for solar cells th... Read more
Findings have major implications for tick-borne diseases like Lyme disease A University of Maryland (UMD) researcher has uncovered a mechanism by which the bacteria that causes Lyme disease... Read more
Engineers at the University of Maryland have created a new material that’s as insulating as Styrofoam, but stronger and much more environmentally friendly. “This can insulate better than mos... Read more
A silicon-based quantum computing device could be closer than ever due to a new experimental device that demonstrates the potential to use light as a messenger to connect quantum bits of inf... Read more
