Research

A mountaintop observatory in Mexico, built and operated by an international team of scientists, has captured the first wide-angle view of gamma rays emanating from two rapidly spinning stars. The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Gamma-Ray Observatory, or...

A new study conducted by researchers at The University of New Mexico, involving medical cannabis and prescription opioid use among chronic pain patients, found a distinct connection between having the legal ability to use cannabis and significant...

What do poop, cancer and snails have in common? They are the topics of the three winners of the LoboBITES competition, held Nov. 8 as part of the Shared Knowledge Conference. 1st place James Fluke Characterization of Bacterial Impairment along the Rio...

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be a private investigator, investigating everything from internet stalkers to missing persons? Meet “Jessamyn Jones” a.k.a. Jessamyn Lovell, senior lecturer and visual artist at The University of New Mexico’s...

Martin Pfeiffer, or Marty as he prefers to be called, knows his way around our state’s nuclear fallout site—he’s dug through the debris left behind in this remote part of the desert. You could call him curious, but the fact is, as Ph.D. student in...

At its most basic level, a random laser is precisely what its name implies; random. It’s random in the spectrum of light it produces and in the way that light is emitted, making what could be an extremely versatile laser source, nearly useless for most...

The University of New Mexico Center for High Technology Materials hosts an Introduction to Synthetic Aperture Radar presented by Armin Doerry on Friday, Nov. 3 from 10:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. in CHTM Room 101.  Doerry is a distinguished member of Technical...

UNM graduate students on the verge of joining the job force are showing off their research skills at the 2017 Shared Knowledge Conference (SKC). The annual event is being held Nov. 8 from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. at Hodgin Hall. Current and prospective students,...

Arash Mafi, interim director of The University of New Mexico Center for High Technology Materials, has been named a 2018 Optical Society Fellow. “UNM has a well-established and strong research and education tradition in optics and photonics, especially...

With warm, dry summers comes a deadly caveat for the western United States: wildfires. Scientists say the hot, dry climates found west of the Mississippi, along with decades of fire suppression efforts, are creating a devastating and destructive...