A new company, Pumas-AI has been established by University of Maryland School of Pharmacy faculty members Vijay Ivaturi, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science, and Joga Gobburu, PhD, MBA, Professor in the department have announced the release of its first software platform for pharmaceutical researchers and clinicians.  

Researchers playing with a cloud of ultracold atoms uncovered behaviour that bears a striking resemblance to the universe in microcosm. Their work, which forges new connections between atomic physics and the sudden expansion of the early universe, will be published in Physical Review X and highlighted by Physics. "From the atomic physics perspective, the experiment is beautifully described by existing theory," says Stephen Eck...

Engineers at the University of Maryland have found a way to make wood more than ten times times stronger and tougher than before, creating a natural substance that is stronger than many titanium alloys. UMD professors Liangbing Hu and Teng Li each holding a block of wood“This new way to treat wood makes it twelve times stronger than natural wood and ten times tougher,” said Liangbing Hu, the leader of the team that did the resear...

Scientists have found compelling evidence for a stratosphere on an enormous planet outside our solar system. The planet's stratosphere-a layer of atmosphere where temperature increases with higher altitudes-is hot enough to boil iron. WASP-121b, located approximately 900 light years from Earth, is a gas giant exoplanet commonly referred to as a "hot Jupiter."

Researchers in the University of Maryland (UMD) Fischell Department of Bioengineering (BIOE) Jewell Laboratory are using quantum dots to decipher the features needed to design specific and effective therapies for multiple sclerosis (MS) and other autoimmune diseases. Their findings were published as the cover story of Advanced Functional Materials.

Inspired by the structure of wood, engineers at the University of Maryland have used modified wood as a unique architecture for the negative electrode of a lithium (Li) metal battery, seeking to prevent some of the key factors that lead to battery failure. Li-ion shuttling in rechargeable batteries provides energy to power your phone, laptop, or even just a light bulb. When the battery is charged, the negative electrode: Li metal expands; an...

  Engineers at the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland (UMD) demonstrate in a study that windows made of transparent wood could provide more even and consistent natural lighting and better energy efficiency than glass.

For more than a century, neuroscientists have known that nerve cells talk to one another across the small gaps between them, a process known as synaptic transmission. Information is carried from one cell to the other by neurotransmitters such as glutamate, dopamine, and serotonin, which activate receptors on the receiving neuron to convey excitatory or inhibitory messages. But beyond this basic outline, the details of how this crucial aspect...

Nanomaterials have the potential to improve many next-gen technologies. They promise to speed up computer chips, increase the resolution of medical imaging devices and make electronics more energy efficient. But imbuing nanomaterials with the right properties can be time consuming and costly. A quick and inexpensive method for constructing diamond-based hybrid nanomaterials could soon launch the field forward.

Scientists at the University of Maryland have a new recipe for batteries: Bake a leaf and add sodium. They used a carbonised oak leaf, pumped full of sodium, as a demonstration battery’s negative terminal, or anode, according to a paper published yesterday in the journal ACS Applied Materials Interfaces.