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Wildfires are reversing America’s progress on ozone pollution, the main ingredient in smog
Written by Weizhi Deng, University of Iowa; Jun Wang, University of Iowa; and Meng Zhou, research scientist at the Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Research Center II For decades, the...
Posted: June 9, 2026, 11:04 AM
No animal alive today is ‘primitive’— why are so many still labeled that way?
‘Man’ is at the very top looking down at all other forms of life in Ernst Haeckel’s drawing. Ernst Haeckel/Photos.com via Getty Images Plus Written by Kevin Omland, professor of biological...
Posted: February 9, 2026, 1:40 PM
Federal shutdown deals blow to already hobbled cybersecurity agency
Written by Richard Forno, teaching professor in computer science and electrical engineering, UMBC As the United States experiences its latest government shutdown, most of the daily operations...
Posted: October 7, 2025, 4:11 PM
How can the James Webb Space Telescope see so far?
Written by Adi Foord, assistant professor of physics, UMBC This article is part of The Conversation‘s “Curious Kids” series. How does the camera on the James Webb Space Telescope work and...
Posted: June 30, 2025, 10:51 AM
Peace has long been elusive in rural Colombia – Black women’s community groups try to bring it closer each day
Written by Tania Lizarazo, associate professor of Latin American studies and global studies, UMBC It’s been almost nine years since Colombia celebrated a landmark peace agreement between one...
Posted: June 6, 2025, 11:30 AM
Governments continue losing efforts to gain backdoor access to secure communications
Written by Richard Forno, principal lecturer in computer science and electrical engineering, UMBC Reports that prominent American national security officials used a freely available encrypted...
Posted: May 16, 2025, 10:09 AM
Popular AIs head-to-head: OpenAI beats DeepSeek on sentence-level reasoning
Written by Manas Gaur, assistant professor in computer science and electrical engineering, UMBC ChatGPT and other AI chatbots based on large language models are known to occasionally make...
Posted: April 25, 2025, 2:56 PM
If FEMA didn’t exist, could states handle the disaster response alone?
Written by Ming Xie, assistant professor of emergency health management and public health systems, UMBC. Imagine a world in which a hurricane devastates the Gulf Coast, and the U.S. has no...
Posted: February 10, 2025, 10:57 AM
Is DOGE a cybersecurity threat? A security expert explains the dangers of violating protocols and regulations that protect government computer systems
Written by Richard Forno, principal lecturer in computer science and electrical engineering, UMBC The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), President Donald Trump’s special commission...
Posted: February 10, 2025, 9:40 AM
What is Salt Typhoon? A security expert explains the Chinese hackers and their attack on US telecommunications networks
Written by Richard Forno, principal lecturer in computer science and electrical engineering, UMBC Cyberattacks linked to the Chinese government that compromised large portions of the American...
Posted: December 6, 2024, 11:43 AM
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