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University Announces Safe Space for White Students
The University of Maryland at College Park announced Friday a new diversity support group to create a “safe space” for white students to discuss their feelings about “interactions with racial and ethnic minorities.”
The support group, called “White Awake,” will help white students who may “sometimes feel uncomfortable and confused before, during, or after interactions with racial and...
Marriage, cancer survival linked in patients
A new study conducted by the American researchers demonstrates that married patients who are suffering from various cancers have a better survival rate.
Researchers in the University of Maryland’s Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center in Baltimore found that married patients with lung cancer were likely to survive longer after treatment than those ones who were single.
The team observed...
Love liberty? You might be a terrorist
Are you suspicious of federal authority? How about really into individual liberty? Well according to a new study funded by the US Department of Homeland Security, you very well might be a terrorist.
A report published earlier this year by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland has surfaced, and in their DHS-funded findings,...
Scientists capture beams of light using 25000 miniscule invisibility cloaks
Findings: researchers found that these tiny invisibility cloaks altered around 20 per cent of any given surface area
While the idea of an invisibility cloak may seem more science fiction than actual science, a group of American researchers are well on their way.
Researchers from Towson University and the University of Maryland used 25,000 individual cloaks 30 micrometres in diameter to slow down light...