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The Ode to Joy is one of the most recognizable and popular tunes in all of music. It’s the centerpiece melody of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. The Baltimore…

Kids are curious, and want to soak up all the knowledge they can about our natural world. Yet the approach one needs to take in order to effectively…

How do doctors and hospitals make gut-wrenching decisions about who gets potentially lifesaving treatment and who doesn’t?As thousands of ill patients…

The numbers we had all hoped to see dwindle by now are rising instead: the number of people infected with Covid-19. The number hospitalized. The number in…

With all its full-service centers open again, the Y in Central Maryland is welcoming members back, after months of essential activity like meal…

One of the most challenging environmental issues in communication across Maryland and in communities all over the world is polluted runoff. As solutions…

When Captain John Smith first explored the Patapsco River in 1608, it was ringed by natural wetlands that provided habitat to native wildlife and filtered…

Most of us probably believe that we do a pretty good job of picking up after ourselves, but the reality is that trash does in fact make its way into our…

Before March, part of Cristo Rey Jesuit High School’s success formula was to place every student in an internship--one day a week in a business or…

Thousands of low-income families are making it through the pandemic without a computer or reliable Internet access. For students, that means distance…

Though fireworks in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor are cancelled for this year, there will still be a celebration of light!

WYPR was in the middle of our fall pledge drive when NASA announced it had discovered the existence of water on the planet Mars. Now that our members have…

We can agree languages are vast, poetic and often define culture, but they also have limits and rules. These limits are enforced and augmented by…

Since the Supreme Court found that states could reject federal funding for Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, 19 states have flatly rejected health…

How do we control our tempers, exercise patience, or embrace delayed gratification? From quitting smoking to watching what we eat to focusing in school, a…

Whether it’s repairing defects, growing tissue, or customizing cell patterns, new technology is boosting the potential of regenerative medicine. We speak…

Whether it’s repairing defects, growing tissue, or customizing cell patterns, new technology is boosting the potential of regenerative medicine. We speak…

In this hour, we hear about three efforts to improve the lives of others. First up, Tyler Mains is a Johns Hopkins medical student and co-founder of…

Midday listeners are invited to call with questions about the roots and practices of Islam, the world’s second largest religion, for Islam scholar John…

From needle exchanges to diabetes to the aging brain, a look at research out of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, one of the busiest…