UMass Amherst

The UMass Minutemen are the athletic teams that represent the University of Massachusetts Amherst; strictly speaking, the Minutemen nickname applies to men's teams and athletes only — women's teams and athletes are known as Minutewomen.

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An international team of astronomers led by UMass Amherst may have just found one of the missing links in galaxy evolution - EurekAlert!

Did We Just See a Black Hole Explode? Physicists at UMass Amherst Think So—and It Could Explain (Almost) Everything

Did we just see a black hole explode? Physicists at UMass Amherst think so—and it could explain (almost) everything - EurekAlert!

An app, an Apple Watch and AI: UMass Amherst creates a new way for researchers to study sleep health - EurekAlert!

Ensuring the future of flora: UMass Amherst ecologists release dataset of climate-smart plants - EurekAlert!

UMass Amherst physicists among winners of prestigious breakthrough prize in fundamental physics - EurekAlert!

Scientists at UMass Amherst engineer plant-based method of 'precious' mineral mining - EurekAlert

Longer droughts, bigger floods: UMass Amherst hydrologist maps the future of water in New England - EurekAlert

NIH awards $2.2 million to UMass Amherst to explore new tuberculosis therapies - EurekAlert

UMass Amherst researchers ID body’s ‘quality control’ regulator for protein folding - EurekAlert

UMass Amherst awarded $2.1 million to advance - EurekAlert

Researchers led by UMass Amherst solve 2,000 - EurekAlert

UMass Amherst to join $90M US National Science Foundation large-scale research infrastructure for education - EurekAlert

Researchers led by physicists at UMass Amherst build new device that is foundation for quantum computing - EurekAlert

Engineers at UMass Amherst harvest abundant clean energy from thin air, 24/7

UMass Amherst ensemble model most accurate for predicting COVID-19 deaths

UMass Amherst research pinpoints role of dopamine in songbird's brain plasticity

UMass Amherst researchers create intelligent electronic microsystems from green material

UMass Amherst food scientists aim to make plant-based protein tastier and healthier

UMass Amherst astronomer reveals never-before-seen detail of the center of our galaxy