Inside a neutron star, conditions like density, gravity and magnetic fields are more extreme than anywhere in the universe outside of black holes. The conditions are so unlike those on Earth that scientists are not entirely sure what form matter takes inside neutron stars, which are dense remnants of collapsed giant stars. But a global collaboration, part of which is led by University of Maryland Astronomy Professor Cole Miller, has discovered that the matter in the core of the most massive known neutron star is less ‘squeezable’ than some physicists predicted.

Archeologist Dr. Julie M. Schablitsky, Adjunct Professor in the Department and chief of the Cultural Resources Division at the Maryland Department of Transportation, has found what archeologists believe to be Harriet Tubman's lost Maryland Home.

Fossil fuel energy sources like coal are quickly being overtaken by renewables like solar and wind power when it comes to affordability, offering the prospect of rapid decarbonization of the U.S. and world economy—a shift that could bolster U.S. plans to drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions, a UMD researcher says.(Smokestacks photo by iStock; windmills by John T. Consoli)

AquaLith Advanced Materials has exclusively licensed a portfolio of lithium-ion battery patents from the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD). The technology, which was awarded the UMD's Invention of the Year Award, is based on the work of Prof. Chunsheng Wang, the Robert Franklin and Frances Riggs Wright Distinguished Chair in the A. James Clark School of Engineering at UMD, in collaboration with Kang Xu, the ARL Fellow at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory.

COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The University of Maryland celebrated the formal installation of Dr. Darryll J. Pines as its 34th President with a week of events showcasing the university’s excellence.

COLLEGE PARK, Md.– University of Maryland President Darryll J. Pines announced a slate of innovation and entrepreneurial awards on April 21 at the 2021 Innovate Maryland virtual event. The awards honor the institution’s inventions, startup, mentor and student entrepreneurs of the year.

University of Maryland Professor of History Richard Bell, an expert of early American history and slavery, abolition and resistance, has been named a 2021 Andrew Carnegie Fellow by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The philanthropic organization awarded the 26 new fellows $200,000 each to fund significant research and writing in the social sciences and humanities that address important and enduring issues confronting society.

With funding from the National Science Foundation, two University of Maryland Clark School of Engineering researchers are building game theory-based water market equilibrium models to help improve water use in the watersheds of the Anacostia River in Maryland and D.C., and the Duck River in Tennessee.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded $1.4 million to expand the reach of Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade (Enslaved.org), a database containing records on hundreds of thousands of individuals living in the era of the historical slave trade—including enslaved peoples as well as enslavers.

Brood X, the largest group of 17-year cicadas, are preparing to emerge broadly around our area in the coming week, experts say.(Animation by Emma Howells) Most students would have walked right by the Swiss cheese-like ground near Memorial Chapel, or even picked up the pace. But when sophomore Colette Lord moved in for a closer look last Tuesday evening, she found the former inhabitants of the holes wriggling up a nearby tree.