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Satirical knives ready to carve up presidential candidates

"Serial" producer Sarah Koenig appeared on "The Colbert Report" Wednesday night.

Since winning the Intel, the biggest science prize for high schoolers, almost two years ago, Jack Andraka, 16, has become a globe-trotting ambassador for medical research and science education. But for all his travels, meeting the Clintons and other world leaders, it's his family that keeps him grounded — a brother who is also a gifted young scientist, and parents who let them run experiments in the basement and bathrooms of their Crownsville MD home.

Wins for Jeff Daniels, Claire Danes edge out Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright

The Baltimore-based artist chats with b about her favorite places to see art in the city and lots more

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.