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On Monday, September 14, 2020, the University of Maryland Libraries' will move to Phase 3 of reopening, which includes appointment-based access to McKeldin Library's study spaces and Hornbake's Maryland Room. Researchers will also have access to a newly launched "Virtual Maryland Room" to obtain services from Special Collections and University Archives.

Plants have a unique ability to safeguard themselves against pathogens by closing their pores—but until now, no one knew quite how they did it. Scientists have known that a flood of calcium into the cells surrounding the pores triggers them to close, but how the calcium entered the cells was unclear.

A semiconductor chip ion trap, fabricated by Sandia National Laboratories and used in research at the University of Maryland, composed of gold-plated electrodes that suspend individual atomic ion qubits above the surface of the bow-tie shaped chip. (Credit: Chris Monroe/JQI and Duke University)