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Fox News Viewers Believe the Darndest Things, Study Finds

(Dec. 17) -- Fair and balanced ... and factually incorrect? A newly released study out of the University of Maryland concludes that viewers of the Fox News Channel were "significantly more likely" to believe a host of factually incorrect information than viewers who watched other television news organizations. Fox is by...

University of Maryland Students Start Competitive Eating Team

Competitive Eating Club at the University of Maryland

(Nov. 29) -- Some college students are hungry to learn. Others are just hungry. A crew of big eaters at the University of Maryland have put their stomachs on the line, founding what could be the nation's first collegiate competitive eating club. "The University of Maryland motto is 'Fear the Turtle,'" said Keith Solomon,...

NASA Captures Photos of Comet Creating Snowstorm

(Nov. 18) -- A NASA spacecraft has captured dramatic images of a comet creating its very own snowstorm, a swirling blizzard containing globs of snow as big as basketballs. "To me this whole thing looks like a snow globe that you've just simply shaken," Brown University's Pete Schultz, one of the scientists analyzing the...

The Long, Dark Winding Road of Charlie Wysocki, Former Maryland Star

Dozens of youngsters had shown up at an indoor sports complex in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on a muggy June day to participate in the Fourth Charlie Wysocki Football Camp. The camp's namesake didn't take part in many of the activities, watching from the metal bleachers nearby, or a table during lunch break and, when the drills...

Air Force Aims to Launch 'Spy Pigeon' Drone by 2015

(July 8) -- In the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, U.S. officials often had to rely on grainy satellite photos to decide whether facilities on the ground were intended for producing weapons of mass destruction. Now imagine that instead of overhead satellite imagery -- or even high-flying unmanned aircraft -- they could...

Background on University Of Maryland

The University of Maryland, College Park (often referred to as The University of Maryland, UM, UMD, UMCP, or Maryland) is a public research university located in the city of College Park in Prince George's County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C.

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