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Former vice president Al Gore will anchor convention coverage on his Current TV channel, it was announced Wednesday. This is what happens if you own the candy store, I guess. But when was the last time a former Nobel Prise winner sat in the anchor chair at a convention?

Towson leaders react to Michael Phelps' 19th Olympic medal

Johns Hopkins Hospital lost its coveted spot as the top-ranked hospital in the country for the first time in 22 years, getting edged out by Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital in the latest analysis by U.S. News & World Report to be released Tuesday.

Two Hopkins med students are urging doctors to set good examples for their patients regarding nutrition and exercise

President Obama should heed calls for deeper cuts to the U.S. nuclear arsenal

Vorbeck Materials of Jessup hopes to make powerful, next-generation lithium ion batteries with graphene – batteries that last several times longer than today's batteries, and can re-charge in minutes, not hours. Vorbeck hopes that its graphene-laced batteries will help drive the United States' effort to establish a homegrown electric vehicle industry.

Works from Copernicus to Darwin featured in Peabody Library

The year 2011 as seen through the rear-view mirror, the high- and the low lights of the year in Baltimore and Maryland

Even if it means imposing some form of self-censorship when it comes to publications in scientific journals, biomedical researchers must take all reasonable steps to guard against misuse of their work by terrorists

Nobel laureate Carol Greider says budget cuts mean the U.S. risks surrendering its leading edge

The Obama administration is addicted to the idea of reasonableness, but there are times when it pays to make the other side worry.

The year's Nobel Prize winners in physics and literature both change the way we think

Comments on fruit flies come back to haunt Rep. Andy Harris

Exhibit advocates for change in U.S. international food-aid policy

When University of Maryland law professor Larry Gibson was asked to get involved with the presidential campaign of then candidate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, he initially declined, yet ultimately she won him over, and his efforts helped her become Africa's first elected female head of state in 2005.

Few understand the club that Adam Riess joined Tuesday when he received a 5:30 a.m. phone call from Sweden. But Carol Greider received the same call two years ago and soon she'll sit with her Johns Hopkins University colleague and tell him what it's like to become a Nobel laureate.

Adam Riess, a Johns Hopkins University professor, is one of a trio of scientists sharing the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics.

Hopkins astronomer Adam G. Riess' Nobel Prize is the best imaginable argument for funding the Webb Space Telescope

A Johns Hopkins University professor is one of a trio of scientists sharing the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics.

It didn't matter whether they worked at a small city elementary school or a large, suburban middle school. Educators said the lifting of the increasingly difficult targets of No Child Left Behind would mean less pressure and a greater freedom to be creative in their classes.