Science and medicine

The folks at the Space Telescope Science Institute arguably know the James Webb Space Telescope best — so we asked them for their favorite images or discoveries from the last year.

The bacteria Legionella can be hard to pinpoint and harder to eradicate.

The next iteration could use AI to mimic the patient’s real voice.

KC, the avatar of an AI chatbot developed by Annapolis lobbyist Johntel Greene, told me that her debut before the next General Assembly as a portal and phone app should be newsworthy. It could be revolutionary.

The president of Planned Parenthood Maryland and president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, D.C., say more needs to be done to protect access to abortion care in Maryland.

The bacteria infecting children right now, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, typically triggers a spike in pneumonia cases in children every 3-7 years. However, like so many other things, the COVID pandemic disrupted the cycle.

Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, a once-in-80,000-years sight, will pass within 44 million miles of Earth, making it watchable with the naked eye in Maryland and much of the Northern Hemisphere.

A surge of particles from the sun caused the northern lights to be visible in Maryland on Thursday night.

A common drug used to treat diabetes may also help Black women with a type of alopecia, a Johns Hopkins scientist found.

Johns Hopkins Health System violated the Americans with Disabilities Act during the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. Justice Department said.

Gaithersburg-based Emergent BioSolutions got approval to make more smallpox vaccine for use against mpox, but it won’t be produced in Baltimore.

Maryland officials found the insidious chemicals in water at 34 schools.

The Baltimore hospital will use a $10 million gift to help pay tuition for medical students training there.

Measures to protect access have already qualified to go before voters this year in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nevada and South Dakota. Meanwhile, competing measures to expand or limit abortion rights will be on the November ballot in Nebraska.

A stream in Oregon Ridge has been named after “Reds” Wolman, the famed Johns Hopkins scientist who would have turned 100 this week.

The limited data suggests COVID-19 is spreading in Maryland during this crazy-hot summer.

The only people on Earth who regularly communicate with James Webb Space Telescope work in a nondescript concrete office building much closer to home — on the Johns Hopkins University campus in Baltimore.

The images released today show a distorted spiral galaxy, nicknamed the "Penguin” because it looks like it has a penguin’s beak, eye, and chest or tail, and an elliptical galaxy, nicknamed the "Egg.”

The state finished a yearlong process of determining who should stay on Medicaid, and ended with fewer from a year ago but more than pre-COVID.

University of Maryland Faculty Physicians plans to open a doctors’ office at Mondawmin Mall, aiming to fulfill a community need.