Scientists identified 5 sleep profiles. A doctor explains what they mean for your health

By Faye Chiu, CNN (CNN) — Do you get enough shut-eye? We know a good night’s sleep is essential for health, yet many do not consistently get enough of it. About 1 in 3 American adults do not regularly get recommended amounts of uninterrupted sleep...

Amazon to hire 6,500 seasonal workers in Maryland ahead of holidays

Amazon is ramping up its holiday hiring nationwide, with plans to add 6,500 workers in Maryland, the company said. About 3,000 of those seasonal jobs in the state will be based in the Baltimore area. Amazon has 13 fulfillment and sortation...

Family office acquires Maryland firm

Family Office of America's Maryland subsidiary acquired Maryland-based CPA firm Toone & Associates — the latest example of family offices entering the accounting space. The deal is FOFA's entrance into the fragmented accounting services market....

Maryland needs teachers. It’s filling classrooms with laid-off federal workers.

Wanting to do good for others led to something good happening to Amanda Leiter – right on time. Ms. Leiter was a law professor at American University in Washington, D.C., for 12 years before taking a job in the office of the general counsel of the...

Forty Years of Heartfelt Service: Honoring Dr. Jeffrey H. Etherton on Maryland’s Eastern Shore

Dr. Jeffrey Etherton For 40 years, Jeffrey Howard Etherton, MD, has been at the forefront of cardiac care, saving lives and shaping heart health on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. This summer, the University of Maryland Shore Regional Health (UM SRH)...

Researchers Alarmed to Discover Satellites Broadcasting Unencrypted Military Secrets

The skies above us are teeming with satellites. The latest figures estimate there are over 12,000 satellites currently active, with thousands more defunct craft left to decay in orbit. All that activity has caused numerous complications for...

Shrinking federal grants signal sea change for Maryland higher ed

Maryland University scientists are being pushed into uncharted territory as historic funding shifts reshape the academic landscape, with federal research dollars shrinking and even being clawed back. “All of us here in Maryland had become...

Turning Demolition into Conservation: Maryland’s Nice Middleton Bridge Project

By Brook Brookshire, Contributing Author Replacing the aging Gov. Harry W. Nice Memorial/Senator Thomas "Mac" Middleton Bridge in Newburg, Md. created a challenge that goes to the heart of modern construction philosophy: How do you responsibly...

NASA Researcher Proposes New Theory For Why Aliens Haven’t Contacted Us

iStockphoto If there are aliens out there somewhere in the vast universe, as many have suggested, why haven’t they contacted us? A new theory proposes that perhaps they did try, but their technology isn’t much better than ours, and after awhile...

Researchers find a startlingly cheap way to steal your secrets from space 

How much private and sensitive data can you get by pointing $600 worth of satellite equipment at the sky? Quite a bit, it turns out. Researchers from the University of Maryland and the University of California, San Diego say they were able to...

STEM Expo returns to UMES

By Gail Stephens PRINCESS ANNE — Aspiring young scientists can explore hands-on activities and get a look inside UMES’ new 4-H STEM Mobile Lab on Saturday, Oct. 18 during the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s 4-H STEM Expo, The...

Moore outpaces Hogan in Maryland’s favorite hypothetical horse race

Right now, interest in Maryland’s 2026 gubernatorial race focuses on two men, one of whom may not even be a candidate: Gov. Wes Moore and former Gov. Larry Hogan. Both men have thrown fuel on the speculative fire. Moore, a Democrat in his first...

Is this why aliens haven't contacted us yet? Extraterrestrials are BORED of trying to find us - and have simply stopped looking, scientist claims

It's one of the biggest unanswered questions in science: if there's life beyond Earth, why hasn't it contacted us yet? Now, a scientist claims to have the answer – and it suggests aliens are more similar to us than we thought. Dr Robin Corbet, an...

Top 5 Baltimore-area football games to watch in Week 7

Thursday’s matchup between C. Milton Wright and Edgewood will feel familiar — not just as a Harford County clash, but because both head coaches work at Edgewood. Mustangs coach Bryan Hansrote, also history teacher at Edgewood, will battle familiar...

Massive data centers invaded Virginia — and Maryland wants to be next

It took just one signature from Gov. Wes Moore last year to accelerate data center development in Maryland. Now, developer Scott Plank’s War Horse Cities firm, which already builds data centers in Virginia, is reportedly considering similar...

Aliens may be ignoring us because they're too BORED, claim researchers

A Nasa researcher has suggested aliens may have got bored of trying to communicate with Earth and given up. The new hypothesis addresses the longstanding puzzle known as the Fermi paradox. The paradox, coined by Italian-American physicist Enrico...

Experts emphasise advanced technology, AI main drivers of economic recovery

Experts participating in the session titled ‘What Will Drive Future Growth and What Will Not’, held as part of the Annual Meetings of the Global Future Councils and Cybersecurity 2025, organised by UAE Government in partnership with the World...

Candidate for Governor of Maryland Supports Congressional Term Limits

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Term Limits (USTL), the leader in the national, non-partisan movement to limit terms for elected officials, is gathering support from state lawmakers across the nation. Its mission is to get 34 states to apply for an...

Stem & Vine: Where Culture, Community, and Creativity Take Root

In the heart of Baltimore, where art, conversation, and craftsmanship intersect, Stem & Vine has blossomed into one of the city’s most distinctive small businesses. Founded by Baltimore native Quincy Goldsmith, the space blends a plant shop, wine...

Researchers intercept unencrypted satellite traffic from space blabbermouths

Geostationary satellites are broadcasting large volumes of unencrypted data to Earth, including private voice calls and text messages as well as consumer internet traffic, researchers have discovered. Scientists at the University of California,...