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Supermassive Honor
UMass Amherst astronomers honored for first-ever black hole image
The international team of astronomers of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) mission – including eight from the University of Massachusetts Amherst – who earlier this year unveiled the first direct... More
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Data to Knowledge
Research advances improve data capture from wearable tech
Deepak Ganesan has spent the better part of a decade trying to work around noise. Not the noise that sends you racing to Amazon to buy a pair of acoustic headphones. The noise Ganesan contends with... More
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Sustainable Nanowires
UMass researchers report major advance in electrially conducting nanowires
UMass Amherst microbiologist Derek Lovley and colleagues report “a major advance” in the quest to develop electrically conductive protein nanowires in the bacterium Geobacter sulfurreducens for use... More
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Finding the Sweet Spot
Research shows climate will impact decline of U.S. maple syrup production
Maple syrup production, one of New England’s cultural icons and a key economic component of the region, will shift northward during the next century due to rising temperatures that will drastically... More
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Beyond Batteries
UMass Amherst lays the groundwork for a revolution in wireless wearables
Smartwatches were big breakthroughs when they hit the market in the early 2000s. Even nascent versions got consumers excited with their ability to play games and access newsfeeds. Two decades later,... More
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Prize-Winning Science
Chemist Jeanne Hardy untangles the mysteries of Alzheimer's disease
The challenges wrought by Alzheimer’s disease are increasing with the graying of society in the developed world. Although no suitable treatments for Alzheimer’s disease exist, recent discoveries by... More
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