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COLLEGE PARK (10/14/20) — As voters worry whether a slowed-down U.S. Postal Service can handle a surge of mailed ballots amid the coronavirus pandemic, University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism professors and USA Today have forged an investigative partnership to measure mail performance in real time in critical swing states.

It’s been three years since the landmark detection of a neutron star merger from gravitational waves. And since that day, an international team of researchers led by University of Maryland astronomer Eleonora Troja has been continuously monitoring the subsequent radiation emissions to provide the most complete picture of such an event.