Science

Wine in the Woods marks 20th festival year in Howard County

2012-05-21 06:49:00

When the first Wine in the Woods festival was being planned in 1992, Ellicott City restaurateur Fernand Tersiguel suggested organizers add enlightenment to their goals for the event. This weekend, as the wine festival marks its 20th anniversary in...

Bin Laden realized the truth: Terrorism doesn't work

2012-05-21 07:43:00

Five weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, Osama bin Laden publicly commanded his foot-soldiers to ramp up the violence against American civilians. But five weeks before his death, he privately instructed his lieutenants to refrain from killing any civilians....

Trees linked to less crime, research finds

2012-05-19 13:40:00

Who doesn't love a tree? Apparently, criminals. Researchers have found that leafier places in Baltimore tend to have lower crime rates than those with few or no trees. A new study looking across Baltimore City and Baltimore County has found that with few...

SpaceX pushes back the final frontier

2012-05-19 03:00:00

If all goes as planned, sometime this morning a spacecraft will blast off from its launchpad in Cape Canaveral, Fla., and ride a fiery plume of contrails upward through the pre-dawn darkness to begin a two-week journey to the International Space Station...

Crownsville student honored for pancreatic cancer test

2012-05-18 12:15:00

Fifteen-year-old Jack Andraka of Crownsville won the top prize at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for designing a new method to detect pancreatic cancer, Intel announced Friday. The fair, held in Pittsburgh, is the world’s...

Joanna Catalano is finalist for prestigious Syed R. Ali-Zaidi Award for Academic Excellence

2012-05-16 11:41:00

Clarion University senior Joanna Catalano, of Joppa, was selected as a finalist for the 2012 Syed R. Ali-Zaidi Award for Academic Excellence, open to all students of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. Catalano received a certificate of...

Columbia Digest

2012-05-18 00:00:00

Happy Birthday, Columbia The Columbia Association hosts a celebration to commemorate the 45th birthday of Columbia from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. June 23 at the Town Center Lakefront. The event features entertainment, children's games and activities, a brick...

City schools names 'model teachers'

2012-05-16 09:49:00

One hundred Baltimore city teachers have been labeled "model teachers" under the new Baltimore Teachers Union contract, the city school system announced last week, marking a milestone in the slow-paced implementation of the pact ratified in fall 2010....

Letters: Enough already with the noise at Merriweather Post concerts

2012-05-17 07:54:00

Last year I expressed the opinion that most concerts at Merriweather violate state standards regarding noise and vibration (the pounding of percussion and bass). I asked that CA and Merriweather Post management be considerate of neighbors. There was...

Datebook

2012-05-18 00:00:00

Sunday, May 20 Science talk Author Andrea Wulf discusses her new book, "Chasing Venus," at noon at Adkins Arboretum's Visitor's Center, 12610 Eveland Road in Ridgely. Admission is $20, $15 for members. Information: 410-634-2847 or adkinsarboretum.org....

Ben Carson and the evolution-morality debate

2012-05-13 05:00:00

Almost 500 Emory University faculty and students have expressed their dismay that their commencement speaker on Monday does not toe the ideological line when it comes to evolutionary biology. Yes — gasp — the renowned Johns Hopkins...

Highland/Fulton: Three Reservoir High School students win awards in Poetry Alive contest

2012-05-15 00:00:00

Reservoir High School students Chaz Atkinson, Caroline des Jardins-Park and Carl Gaytano were all winners in the Howard County Public School System's Poetry Alive writing contest. Chaz is in AP French, Caroline is in French 4 Honors and Carl is in...

Members of the Shedd Aquarium Marine Mammal animal care specialists, who will be sleeping over night, meet on Saturday. Michael Pratt, from left, Brandon Thorson, Rochelle Briscoe, Jason Jones and Jessica Whiton.

2012-05-19 00:00:00

Philip Caltabiano listens to the instructor in a UCLA physics class. He studied marine biology and conservation biology and hopes to get a field research position after graduating next month. He has also applied to be a teaching assistant at UCLA.

2012-05-18 21:52:00

Tsehai Grell could only smile when she heard that Shirley Ann Jackson, the first black woman to earn a doctorate from MIT, would deliver Morgan State's commencement address in 2012. Grell is about to graduate from Morgan with a 4.

2012-05-17 00:00:00