Research

Contrary to conventional wisdom, cities where there are higher percentages of bicyclists are actually safer for all road users than cities where fewer citizens are biking, according to a study by a University of New Mexico researcher. The study,...

Imagine a future of cyber-transactions with unbreakable encryption. Thermometers that never need calibration. Near-absolute measurements of time. Medications customized at the molecular level. These advances are imaginable because of new support for...

Two researchers at The University of New Mexico recently received an award of more than $580,000 from the Army Research Office for a project named Supersymmetry in Optics: Beyond Traditional Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics, an eye-watering title to the...

Researchers at the University of New Mexico School of Engineering are partnering with a popular state attraction to collect data. On June 12, they installed two wireless sensors on top of Sandia Peak in collaboration with Sandia Peak Tramway. Fernando...

Gabriel Meléndez, director of the Center for Regional Studies (CRS) at The University of New Mexico, has announced that visiting scholars Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez and Tracy Brown will carry out research projects this summer at UNM through the center’s...

In 2015 approximately 16 million people in the United States had an Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD), including 15.1 million adults and about 625,000 adolescents ages 12–17. About twice as many men as women have an AUD.  There are numerous approaches to...

For the first time ever, a group from The University of New Mexico will be competing in the Spaceport America Cup, which will be held June 18-22 between Las Cruces and Truth or Consequences, N.M. UNM’s Lobo Launch team, which includes 21 mechanical...

Following a week of downtime in late May, the UNM Center for Advanced Research Computing is back online with a number of improvements to its systems. The changes included upgrades to CARC’s data center power facilities, storage systems, network...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) and The University of New Mexico today announced the groundbreaking findings of a two-year study of the plasmonic properties of daguerreotypes. Using atomic force microscopy and scanning electron microscopy,...

The fourth annual NASA Swarmathon was hosted recently by The University of Mexico, covering Smith Plaza with swarms of robots that look like the desert ants that live around Albuquerque. But these ants were busy gathering cubes and bringing them back to...