An international team of scientists that includes UMD physicists has opened an unprecedented new window on the universe with the first observation of ripples in the fabric of space-time. These ripples ...

UMD students in Margaret Elmer-Dixon’s introductory calculus-based physics class watch one of their boomerangs in flight Wednesday, April 14, 2021. (Steve Kuchera / [email protected]) UMD ...

It's not at every university that laser pulses powerful enough to burn paper and skin are sent blazing down a hallway. But that’s what happened in UMD’s Energy Research Facility, an unremarkable ...