Some residents of northern Maryland might’ve felt a very slight shaking Wednesday afternoon after a 3.4-magnitude earthquake hit Pennsylvania and could be felt near the border. The U.S. Geological Survey reports that the earthquake hit southeastern Pennsylvania around 8:30 p.m., with a reported...
The blue-green flash over Baltimore Tuesday night wasn’t a UFO, a plane or a lightning strike. It was a meteor. People in a dozen states — from South Carolina to New Hampshire — reported seeing a meteor just before 11 p.m. Tuesday, according to the American Meteor Society. Many took to social media...
Weight loss, altered eye shape and elongated DNA structures are just a few of the side effects of spending a year in space. But after monitoring the differences between a pair of identical twins as one traveled to the International Space Station and the other stayed on Earth, researchers say there’s...
Black holes are cosmic prisons, where nothing escapes, not light or even data. But lots did come out of Wednesday's first image of the shadowy edge of a supermassive black hole. Here are four things we learned: Seeing is believing Scientists have known for decades that black holes exist, but only...
Fossil bones and teeth found in the Philippines have revealed a long-lost cousin of modern people, which evidently lived around the time our own species was spreading from Africa to occupy the rest of the world. It's yet another reminder that, although Homo sapiens is now the only surviving member...
Scientists on Wednesday revealed the first image ever made of a black hole, depicting its hot, shadowy edges where light bends around itself in a cosmic funhouse effect. Assembling data gathered by eight radio telescopes around the world, astronomers created the picture showing the violent neighborhood...
The Curiosity rover has feat of clay. The Mars rover recently detected the finely grained soil while digging on the Red Planet, pointing to a once-flowing lake. In a May 29 blog entry from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the agency revealed that Curiosity found two rock samples, known as “Aberlady”...
CAPE CANAVERAL — A SpaceX shipment arrived at the International Space Station on Monday following a weekend launch from the Space Coast. The Dragon capsule delivered 5,500 pounds of equipment and experiments. Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques used the station's big robot arm — also made in...
Issues both at sea and on the launch pad postponed a planned SpaceX launch to the International Space Station early Friday morning. SpaceX’s 17th resupply mission to the station will now move to Saturday at 2:48 a.m. from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s launch complex 40. The culprits: SpaceX’s...
NASA and SpaceX are delaying the launch of the company’s 17th resupply mission to the International Space Station this week after the station suffered a power issue. On Monday, station crew discovered an issue with a unit that distributes power to two of the eight power channels on the ISS. And...
An internal memo sent out to workers at Kennedy Space Center this week has confirmed what SpaceX and NASA have not and what the Internet has speculated about in the 10 days since something went dramatically wrong during a test of the rocket company’s astronaut capsule: It did, in fact, blow up....
After multiple delays threatened to push SpaceX’s 17th resupply mission to the International Space Station later this month, Elon Musk’s rocket company was able to pull off a launch in the wee hours of Saturday morning. The mission took off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s launch complex...
The University System of Maryland outlined some of the questions it will aim to investigate as part of an independent review of a fatal adenovirus outbreak on the College Park campus in 2018. Olivia Paregol, a University of Maryland freshman from Howard County, died Nov. 18 of an illness related...
A member of Goucher College’s board of trustees is helping fuel anti-vaccination movements throughout the United States, spending millions of dollars alongside her husband to fund the efforts, according to a report Wednesday in The Washington Post. Lisa Pagliaro Selz, who graduated from the private...
A federal judge temporarily blocked Trump administration rules aimed at steering money away from organizations in Baltimore that provide abortion referrals. The rules issued in March apply to so-called Title X family planning funding, and city officials who brought the lawsuit against the administration...
A chief negotiator on the $5.5 billion Port Covington project will leave Kevin Plank’s private real estate team to lead economic development for Johns Hopkins, directing both its education and health care investments. Alicia Wilson, a 36-year-old attorney from Baltimore’s Frankford neighborhood,...
Newborns in Maryland will now be screened for four more conditions, bringing the total to 61, in an effort to begin treatment earlier for the rare, inherited disorders. The state is now among the top five nationally for the size of its testing panel, according to the state Department of Health....
Mary B. Maguire, a retired registered nurse and devout Roman Catholic, died June 6 at MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center of complications from a series of falls. The Southwest Baltimore resident was 94. The former Mary Burke, the daughter of John Patrick Burke, a building contractor, and his...
Grace A. Harris, a retired physical therapist who after serving as chief of physical therapy for more than a decade at MedStar Franklin Square Hospital entered private practice, died June 1 of an intestinal blockage the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center. The longtime Monkton resident...
Maryland and the federal government will recoup millions of dollars spent on the disastrous rollout of the state’s health insurance exchange created under the Affordable Care Act under a settlement with IBM, which supplied the technology. Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh and the U.S. Attorney...
Medical cannabis regulators in Maryland expanded testing for heavy metals in marijuana products as they warned the public about the risk for possible lead contamination in popular vaping devices. The Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission issued an advisory late Friday “to notify patients and other...
Howard County has reached a $3 million deal with a private company to build an inpatient drug treatment center there with beds reserved for county residents. In what Howard officials say is a first-of-its-kind public-private partnership, the county will pay Delphi Behavioral Health Group $750,000...
Former state Sen. Francis X. Kelly resigned Friday from the University of Maryland Medical System Board of Directors — just days after fellow board members had asked him to return — amid continued fallout from the self-dealing scandal that has rocked the hospital network. In a letter to outgoing...
Even the saltiest of sea dogs can be prone to bouts of illness aboard cruise ships, but Maryland vacationers may take comfort in knowing the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention closely monitors health standards on commercial ships. Much like restaurants, cruise ships — including those...
The University of Maryland Medical Center dropped a plan Wednesday to seek more revenue from patients, a request that critics had called ill-timed in light of allegations of improper spending and above-average profits by the 13-hospital University of Maryland Medical System. The downtown Baltimore...
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan named Wednesday his initial batch of new appointees to the troubled board of directors at the University of Maryland Medical System, the first step toward reorganizing the board following a scandal over board members having lucrative contracts with the 13-hospital system....
From time to time over the past few months, employees at the Maryland Book Bank have found a trash bag waiting for them on their loading dock in Woodberry — each one stuffed with “Healthy Holly” books. “Every time they’ve come in, it’s never been just five or six” books, said Kim Crout, the nonprofit...