The planet’s demand for salt comes at a cost to the environment and human health, according to a new scientific review led by University of Maryland Geology Professor Sujay Kaushal.

If gamblers, investors and quantum experimentalists could bend the arrow of time, their advantage would be significantly higher, leading to significantly better outcomes. Working with collaborators at the University of Cambridge, Nicole Yunger Halpern(link is external), a Fellow in the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS), has shown that by manipulating entanglement, researchers can simulate what could happen if one could travel backwards in time.

Maryland Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) Professor Liangbing Hu joins a new research center aimed at developing sustainable chemical processes that will reduce industrial greenhouse emissions, a project led by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). 

A joint team from the University of Maryland Extension (UME) and the College of Information Studies (INFO) is leading the way toward helping more Maryland residents be digitally connected. In 2022, $6 million was awarded to UME (with INFO as a collaborator) as part of the Office of Statewide Broadband’s $400 million Connect Maryland initiative. Of the monies given, $2 million is going toward helping people sign up for broadband access and acquire devices, while $4 million is earmarked for digital literacy training, competency, and education initiatives.

Sophia Rodriguez, associate professor in the College of Education, is a member of the team leading Encuentros: A University-Community Partnership to Mitigate the Mental Health Crisis for Latino Immigrant Youth. This community-driven project, funded by a Grand Challenges Team Project Grant from the University of Maryland, will address mental health issues among low-income Latinx immigrant youth in Maryland to increase their sense of well-being, community and belonging.

When Hurricane Ian struck southwest Florida in September 2022, it unleashed a variety of Vibrio bacteria that can cause illness and death in humans, according to a new study published in the journal mBio.

Scientists know that entanglement, a special connection that intertwines the fate of quantum particles, is a crucial ingredient for quantum computers. Without it, a quantum computer loses its ability to harness the fullness of quantum complexity—that special sauce that makes the quantum world impossible to emulate on ordinary computers. But whether entanglement is the only key, and exactly how much of it is needed, no one really knows. 

NASA’s InSight mission to Mars helped scientists map out Mars’ internal structure, including the size and composition of its core, and provided general hints about its tumultuous formation.

University of Maryland College of Information Studies (INFO) professor Jonathan Lazar, Executive Director of MIDA, provided written testimony to the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging last month, and the Maryland Initiative for Digital Accessibility (MIDA) provided comments to the U.S. Department of Justice in response to a rulemaking related to web and mobile app accessibility under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

On 13- or 17-year cycles, billions of cicadas emerge from the ground to reproduce in eastern North American deciduous forests. One of the largest emergence events of these insects happened in 2021 when the Brood X cicadas emerged. Researchers who studied that once-in-a-generation event are now unveiling the impact of this occurrence on forest ecosystems, specifically on birds, caterpillars and trees.