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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)

Researchers Team Up to Study Recent Mass Mobilization Efforts As socially distanced participants gather at Friday’s March on Washington to protest systemic racism and the murder of George Floyd and many other Black Americans, researchers from the University of Maryland will fan out through the crowd in search of evidence of a seismic shift in activists’ views and methods of mobilizing for social justice.