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“Biomass smoke from southern Africa can significantly enhance the brightness of stratocumulus over the southeastern Atlantic Ocean” Zheng Lu, Xiaohong Liu, Zhibo Zhang, Chun Zhao, Kerry Meyer,...

In the Jan 29, 2018 (Vol 191 No 3 issue of Time) Nathan Kurtz (JCET/UMBC; PhD 2012 and Chris Shuman (JCET/GESTAR) describe the data acquired as part of the aircraft based IceBridge mission into...

“Turbulence-Free Double-slit Interferometer” Thomas A. Smith and Yanhua Shih Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 063606 – Published 8 February 2018 URL:...

“Single scattering properties of non-spherical hydrosols modeled by spheroids” Lipi Mukherjee, Peng-Wang Zhai, Yongxiang Hu, and David M. Winker Opt. Express 26(2), A124-A135 (2018) URL:...

Graduate students Brian Carroll and Zhifeng Yang take flight to study weather, pollution in multi-institution initiative....

A new, more secure computer is on the way to protect our most sensitive data. Dr. Deffner, assistant professor of physics, explores quantum supremacy and how it could keep our data safe in the...

“Robust operating point for capacitively coupled singlet-triplet qubits” M. A. Wolfe, F. A. Calderon-Vargas, and J. P. Kestner Phys. Rev. B 96, 201307(R) URL:...

James N. Reeves, a CSST Visiting Scientist, wins an award from the Italian government for a research project he worked on while visiting UMBC. He is 3rd from the left in the photo. PRESS...

Here Be Dragons: Investigating Black Holes in Galaxy Nuclei Astronomers have discovered that every galaxy has a huge black hole at its core, millions to billions of times the mass of our Sun. In...

“Fermi Non-detections of Four X-Ray Jet Sources and Implications for the IC/CMB Mechanism” Peter Breiding1, Eileen T. Meyer1, Markos Georganopoulos1,2, M. E. Keenan1, N. S. DeNigris1, and...