Michael Stroh

UM scientists study role of wild birds in spread of avian flu

March 29, 2019 at 4:04 p.m.

COLLEGE PARK - In a low-slung building far from virus-plagued Southeast Asia, scientists are leading a sweeping inquiry into the role that migratory waterfowl and other wild birds might play...

Medical advances make decisions on life difficult

August 21, 2019 at 9:08 p.m.

As a long and bitter battle over the fate of a brain-damaged Florida woman dragged drearily on yesterday, legal scholars, ethicists and medical experts said it was unlikely the case...

Our small, sensitive planet

March 28, 2019 at 9:47 p.m.

In the hours after last month's Sumatra earthquake, an astonishing report began to circulate: So potent was the undersea jolt that it disrupted the planet's rotation, causing the day to...

Medicare focus for next HHS head

March 30, 2019 at 5:05 a.m.

The resignation yesterday of Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson gives President Bush an opportunity to pump fresh energy into an agency bracing for budget cuts and a...

The Fear Factor

March 28, 2019 at 7:50 p.m.

Yamile Garcia was helping a friend pack up her Essex apartment last week when she spotted something that made her skin go cold: the blood-red eyes of a 17-year cicada....

Cicada song is illegally loud

March 29, 2019 at 1:31 p.m.

Huh? You said what about the 17-year cicadas? Oh, they're loud, you say. Well, don't bother telling Marian Farabee, who probably can't hear you anyway. Her backyard cicadas are so...

A cicada molts and dries its wings after spending 17 years in its subterranean hide-out.

Md. cicada invasion gets off to quiet start

April 6, 2019 at 2:09 a.m.

The season of the cicada has arrived. From Roland Park to College Park, the first wave of 17-year cicadas known as Brood X are crawling from subterranean hide-outs under cover...

Mathematicians explore cicada’s mysterious link with primes

March 29, 2019 at 8:26 p.m.

It's probably no surprise that periodical cicadas like the clan invading Maryland this month are a big draw for biologists. Less obvious is why someone like Glenn Webb would care....

Ick! ‘Looks like a bumper crop’

March 29, 2019 at 9:40 p.m.

They're gross. They're loud. They're bumbling. And, come mid-May, they're back. With uncanny mathematical precision, and with sex on their minds, millions of red-eyed cicadas that last saw daylight in...

Hubble faces an early end to space role

August 22, 2019 at 10:24 p.m.

The Hubble Space Telescope, which revolutionized the study of the cosmos and is considered one of the finest scientific instruments ever constructed, will be forced into early retirement, NASA officials...

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