Here are some little known facts about bamboo: bamboo grows fast—really fast. It has an amazing regenerative quality. It eats carbon dioxide. And it's incredibly lightweight, strong and flexible.
Environment
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A new study by University of Maryland astronomers shows that comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein (BB), the largest comet ever discovered, was active long before previously thought, meaning the ice within it is vaporizing and forming ...
Astronomy
Nov 29, 2021
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It's hard to overstate the environmental importance of trees, which among other functions pull climate change-inducing carbon from the atmosphere, clean the air of toxins and help control runoff.
Environment
Nov 23, 2021
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Every investor is chasing the answer to one question: When should I buy stocks and when should I sell them? It's the elusive formula for timing the market. New research co-authored by Albert "Pete" Kyle, the Charles E. Smith ...
Economics & Business
Oct 5, 2021
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Animal cells get their structural integrity from their cytoskeleton, a shapeshifting mesh of filaments inside a cell that helps the cell organize its structure and communicate with its environment. A few years ago, scientists ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 4, 2021
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Pobody's nerfect—not even the indifferent, calculating bits that are the foundation of computers. But JQI Fellow Christopher Monroe's group, together with colleagues from Duke University, have made progress toward ensuring ...
Quantum Physics
Oct 4, 2021
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Finding the right team is critical for a startup's success and most aren't taking the right approach, finds new Maryland Smith research. With the right strategy—a mix that has founders both liking each other due to shared ...
Economics & Business
Sep 20, 2021
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Companies are always looking for ways to get teams to innovate more and find creative answers to problems. New research co-authored by Myeong-Gu Seo at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business finds ...
Social Sciences
Aug 23, 2021
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Public private partnerships have a better track record in promoting equity than many assume, researchers at the University of Maryland's (UMD) A. James Clark School of Engineering have found.
Economics & Business
Jul 28, 2021
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A new study on U.S. oligopolies uses, according to its author, a "groundbreaking model" to more accurately measure competition in U.S. markets and the consequences for consumers "who are capturing a smaller slice of a shrinking ...
Economics & Business
Jul 28, 2021
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