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A University of Maryland astrophysicist was named Tuesday to the 2024 class of Packard Fellows for Science and Engineering, an honor for early-career researchers that comes with a $875,000, five-year award “to take risks and explore new…

A new University of Maryland-led discovery could spur the development of new and improved treatments for Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS), often simply called “progeria”—a rare genetic disorder with no known cure that causes…

The tiny, two-toed fossil footprints made by an unidentified dinosaur species some 100 million years ago and preserved in a slab of rock in South Korea are thought to have been made by a raptor no bigger than a modern sparrow. What…

With Maryland’s early voting period set to open Thursday, the Local News Network at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism on Monday unveiled its 2024 voter guide for every school board election in the state.…

As intense heat and rising air pollution from wildfires pose increasing threats to human health, new research led by the University of Maryland School of Public Health aims to understand the risk for a particularly vulnerable group, and…

Poverty and low wages afflict more than half of America’s children and 43% of adults, but have barely surfaced as issues in this year’s presidential race­—or in the last several election cycles. Denying their existence or telling those…

ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs) are increasingly helping coders and software engineers streamline their workflows, and Facebook parent company Meta even reports nearly all its developers use internal LLMs to enhance…

Veterans and military family members (VMF) who serve in election jobs, including as poll workers, strengthen public trust in the fairness, security and safety of elections, finds a new study by the University of Maryland’s Center for…

Cole Hershman’s high school calculus teacher introduced “L'Hôpital's rule” by showing it featured in the movie “Mean Girls.” She pushed him and his classmates to take the hardest course they could before college to challenge themselves, and…

When Election Day dawns on Tuesday, more than just control of the White House will be balancing on a razor’s edge. The Senate, where Democrats hold a one-vote majority, could flip. The Republican-led House of Representatives, meanwhile,…