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On the morning of December 14, 2012, a lone gunman shot his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. He killed twenty children and…

David Linden is a neuroscientist at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and the former editor of the Journal of Nerophysiology. His first book, The…

Generic drugs barely existed a half century ago. In 1960 fewer than one out of ten prescriptions was filled with a generic. Today, that proportion has…

Let us consider the homely basket. Time was, hand-made baskets were commonplace – so common and utilitarian that they weren’t really seen as cultural…

There has been an 88-percent increase in the number of heroin-related deaths in Maryland since 2011. That’s according to a new report from Maryland’s…

In the early 20th century, tens of thousands of British soldiers returned home from World War I battles with a mysterious condition that left them racked…

Psychiatric researcher E. Fuller Torrey’s mother told him he had a famous ancestor, a preacher who had made a big impact as an abolitionist back in the…

The General Assembly considered several bills to change implementation of the Common Core State Standards—or as Maryland refers to it—the ‘Maryland…

Hillary Clinton has amassed enough delegate votes to secure the Democratic nomination for president, making her the party's presumptive nominee. Clinton…

A new study released by Johns Hopkins University found that the 'Ferguson Effect' may be a myth. The term was first used by FBI director James Comey to…

The tiniest creature with the deadliest of bites … Professor Chris Potter's lab at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is working to…

What makes a firework … work? On the cusp of Independence Day we speak with John Conkling, a chemist and former director of the American Pyrotechnic…

For nearly fifty years, John Clark Mayden has viewed life through a distinctive lens. His black-and-white photographs capture ordinary moments--passengers…

To hear Mike Rowe tell it, the fame he’s built from years of producing “Dirty Jobs” on the Discovery Channel and lots of other smart-allecky shows,…

African-Americans living free in Baltimore before the Civil War were constantly testing whether the law and courts saw them as citizens, with rights to be…

Bats get a bad rap, but they play a pivotal role in nature---they devour insects and their furry bodies can spread pollen. Bats make up one fourth of all…

Maryland is starting to build a workforce of contact tracers--people who can talk to someone who has tested positive for Covid-19, persuade them to…

Nearly a week after Baltimore’s housing commissioner was fired, the public doesn’t know why. We ask Tisha Guthrie, a tenants’ rights advocate, why it’s…

On this edition of Midday on Ethics, Dr. Jeffrey Kahn stops by Studio A to discuss human gene editing and some of the ethical questions that surround its…

A lot of what you thought you knew about poor black kids growing up in Baltimore may not be true. A research effort by three sociologists who got to know…