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"People like to root for the underdog," said Kirby Runyon, a Johns Hopkins University graduate student behind renewed efforts to restore Pluto's lost title.

"People like to root for the underdog," said Kirby Runyon, a Johns Hopkins University graduate student behind renewed efforts to restore Pluto's lost title.

This column has given me a wonderful opportunity to vent on a broad variety of topics, but some things that get under my skin just aren't worthy of a column-length discussion. They fall into the category of pet peeves, so herewith are some of the things that have bugged me lately.

When he was 12 years old, Neil deGrasse Tyson got his first telescope. Tyson was already fascinated with the universe, exploring the night sky with binoculars from the roof of his apartment building.

Owings Mills resident Laura Smith-Velazquez is on a short list for Mars One's one-way trip to the red planet, but the mission faces many scientific and financial hurdles.

Fifty years after the Civil Rights Act, Conservatives' assertion that racism is vanquished is not only absurd but dangerous, Leonard Pitts writes.

It is both his groundbreaking ideas in the field of particle physics known as supersymmetry and his ability to explain them better than anyone else that have landed James Gates seats on the state school board and on the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.