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Are Jews on the streets of Northwest Baltimore today the descendants of the Khazars, a legendary central Asian mountain tribe of fierce Jewish warriors who once ruled a vast realm? It's not only possible but likely, says a Johns Hopkins University population geneticist who is analyzing the DNA of Eurasian Jews.

After its first close pass, Andromeda is tidally stretched out. The Milky Way, too, becomes warped.

David Martosko is The Daily Caller's executive editor. He is the father of two, a frequent public speaker, and a graduate of Dartmouth College and the Johns Hopkins University.

Like many new college graduates, Narmeen Iqbal feels dejected about the job market.

Are educators looking at school absenteeism in the wrong way? A recent report says 15 percent of children are chronically absent.

All of my friends and acquaintances, mostly current and former colleagues in higher education and journalism, earned at least baccalaureate degrees.

Universities in Rangoon and Mandalay in the future will have special education centres with a mission to upgrade the overall education standards in Burma, said presidential adviser Ko Ko Hlaing, who was quoted in an article in Weekly Eleven on Tuesday.

John Timothy Newell, of Lebanon, NJ, wrote in a letter to the editor to The Gazette Wednesday that he and his family, successors to the Belward Farm estate, oppose the county's proposal to build a transit network through the property.

From their work with college and university presidents, provosts, and trustees, James Martin, a professor of English at Mount Ida College and James E. Samels, president and CEO of The Education Alliance, recognize just how complex sustainability leadership in higher ed has become.

So, astronomers have a tough time figuring out their ages. Knowing a star's age is critical for understanding how our Milky Way galaxy built itself up over billions of years from smaller galaxies.

Women in their seventies who exercise and eat healthy amounts of fruits and vegetables have a longer life expectancy , according to research published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society .

Newswise - Johns Hopkins scientists have engineered cells that behave like AND and OR Boolean logic gates, producing an output based on one or more unique inputs.

Yajaira Cortes was only 16 when she became another statistic at what she refers to as Mount Pregnant High School.

People with a past history of just a single skin infection may be three times more likely to develop a painful, costly - and potentially deadly - surgical site infection when they have an operation, according to new Johns Hopkins research.

Eleanor Grace Belleau of Warren graduated from Thiel College in Greenville on May 6 with a bachelor of arts degrees in accounting and business administration.

Joshua Buenavista, a first-year nursing student at the UW, is more concerned about being denied classes he is required to take than he is about the job market.

A Fortune 50 company consultant and former surgeon will take over in July as dean of the Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School Bernard T. Ferrari's background boasts a mix of business and health care experience, a combination that will support the school's shifting focus to the business of health care.

Such is the conclusion arrived at by four economists who recently published the results of an investigation into the economic effects of China's village elections.

DNA tile ribbons can store information in their arrangement of tiles-12.5 nm by 4 nm by 2 nm self-assembled DNA structures.

Main Category: Prostate / Prostate Cancer Also Included In: Primary Care / General Practice ; Litigation / Medical Malpractice Article Date: 29 May 2012 - 0:00 PDT Recent recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force advising elimination of routine prostate-specific antigen screening for prostate cancer in healthy men are likely to ... (more)