Maryland news

(USA Today) - Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine may have taken the controversy out of the entire field of stem cell research. In a paper published online in the journal Nature, they report that they were able to transform mouse read more..

ANNAPOLIS, Md.— It was too cold even for some polar bears on Saturday Organizers estimated that as many as 15,000 people got in the water in the event, which raises money for the Maryland Special Olympics. Several people had to be treated for read more..

Getting to space is about to be outsourced. The Obama administration on Monday will propose in its new budget spending billions of dollars to encourage private companies to build, launch and operate spacecraft for NASA and others. Uncle Sam would buy read more..

DENVER — Two college students are dead following a house fire in Gunnison. Officials identified the victims in Saturday’s blaze as 18-year-old Lucille Grace Causley of Harbor Springs, Mich., and 21-year-old Adam Michael Lockard of Bethesda, Md read more..

WASHINGTON (AP) — Getting to space is about to be outsourced. The Obama administration on Monday will propose in its new budget spending billions of dollars to encourage private companies to build, launch and operate spacecraft for NASA and others read more..

A worker clears the entrance to the West Wing of the White House as the snow continues to fall in Washington Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) WASHINGTON - A stronger than expected snow storm hit the DC region Saturday leaving as much read more..

Robin Fisher has a message for President Barack Obama: Save NASA jobs. “To retain our nation’s leading science and technological standing in the world, it is necessary that we take steps now to retain this unique workforce,” Fisher, a Brevard read more..