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Coronavirus

Study: COVID-19 symptoms start about five days after exposure

Published March 9, 2020

Bloomberg School study suggests a median incubation period of 5.1 days for the new coronavirus, affirming the 14-day quarantine used by the CDC and other health authorities

Earth and planetary sciences

More pavement, more problems

Published March 5, 2020

Study finds that for every percentage point increase in pavement and impervious surfaces, annual floods increase by 3.3%

Coronavirus

Could a serum prevent COVID-19?

Published March 3, 2020

Infectious disease expert Arturo Casadevall looks to a forgotten case study for ways to prevent the spread of coronavirus / The Wall Street Journal

Conceptual illustration of a researcher looking at a curved universe

Cosmology

Take that, flat universers

Published Feb 26, 2020

Cosmologist Joseph Silk's recent analysis of the cosmic microwave background suggests that maybe, just maybe, the universe could be a curved sphere

Robotics

Slithering snakes help engineers learn how to build better robots

Published Feb 18, 2020

Mechanical engineers design a snake robot based on the climbing technique of the kingsnake that could help advance search-and-rescue technology

State House honor

Capital congrats

Published Feb 13, 2020

Gregg Semenza received Governor's Citation and congratulations from both houses of the Maryland General Assembly for his 2019 Nobel Prize

Faculty honors

Zhaozhu Qiu named Sloan Research Fellow

Published Feb 12, 2020

Assistant professor in the departments of Physiology, Neuroscience at the School of Medicine studies an important class of membrane proteins in cells

Biochemistry

Scientists discover fundamental mechanism for RNA regulation

Published Feb 4, 2020

The process removes tangled strands of RNA from cells, a discovery that could help researchers understand how certain degenerative and communicable diseases develop