An ‘alien coffin’ might possibly be added to the long list of curious objects found on the surface of the Red Planet. Puzzled UFO enthusiasts now want NASA’s Curiosity rover to take a closer look. Will Farrar, a UFO (unidentified flying object) hunter from Maryland, US, noticed a strange, box-shaped object as he was looking through a set of photos, taken by the Mars Curiosity rover. On his YouTube... 

The magic that President Obama once enjoyed at political rallies appears to have vanished into thin air, as a crowd of spectators walked out on the president during a speech for Democrats Sunday in Maryland. During an appearance for Lieutenant Governor Anthony Brown, who is running for governor of Maryland, “early departures of crowd members while he spoke underscored his continuing unpopularity,”... 

A girl walks past a slogan painted on a wall reading “Stop Ebola” in Monrovia on August 31, 2014. An experimental US Ebola vaccine is being trialed on humans at the country’s National Institutes of Health (NIH)’s campus in Bethesda, Maryland. The vaccine has been developed by the agency’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and GlaxoSmithKline. Twenty healthy... 

There were no immediate reports of injuries and some counties reported only minimal damage. Hurricane Arthur has stormed its way through the US East Coast, marking the first hurricane of this year’s Atlantic season. Hitting North Carolina’s coast along with Boston and the state of Maryland, the hurricane has left thousands of people without power. Dare County officials said Wednesday that... 

Titan, Saturn’s largest moon appears before the planet as it undergoes seasonal changes in this natural color view from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft in this handout released by NASA August 29, 2012. The US space agency has come up with a recipe that captures key flavors of Saturn’s moon Titan out of a need to understand a previously unidentified chemical composition hidden beyond its orange... 

Babies exposed to dirt and a wide variety of household bacteria in the first year of life are less likely threatened by allergies and asthma, a new research unraveled. Contact with bacteria and even roach allergens in the first year of life may help protect infants against future allergies and wheezing. The study researchers followed 467 newborns for three years, monitoring them for allergies annually... 

Weather continues to cause trouble in the United States, as yet another powerful snowstorm is blanketing the mid-Atlantic region and the East Coast on Monday. Much like previous storms, the latest is cancelling flights, clogging up roads, and knocking out power from Maryland and Washington, DC, to states as far south as Arkansas and Texas. In DC, as much as 10 inches of snow is expected to drop in... 

A group of lawmakers in Maryland has introduced a bill that would deny state support to the National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters in Ft. Meade, Md., which might see electricity and water supplies cut to the intelligence nerve center. Eight Republicans from the 141-member Maryland House of Delegates introduced the legislation that would deny the NSA “material support, participation or assistance... 

What do you get when you cross a fish with an elephant? A patent. But transgenic genetic modification is no joke. It has the potential to create new diseases that can jump species. A new study has found a pathogenic virus that has jumped from genetic engineers’ favorite test-bed, tobacco, to agriculture’s most important helper, honeybees. Honeybees are vitally important to our food supply and... 

More than 1,600 flights were cancelled and 500 more were delayed on Wednesday after a fierce winter storm swept through the northeastern US. While the snowfall was over on Wednesday, fierce winds and biting temperatures continued and millions of American commuters faced miserable conditions as the storm stretched from Kentucky to New England. Almost 3,500 flights were canceled on Tuesday, and thousands... 

Caffeine can improve mental and cognitive functions through stimulating many regions of the brain that regulate wakefulness, arousal, mood and concentration. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University found that those people who regularly consumed caffeinated products had better results on the memory tests. The study results were confirmed after monitoring the memories of 160 people who did not regularly... 

The National Security Agency is reportedly building a ‘quantum computer’ capable of breaking encryption used to protect the most vital records around the world. The US spy agency is seeking an advanced-speed, “cryptologically useful quantum computer” that can bypass encryption that currently shields global banking, business, medical and government records. The quantum computer is part of a... 

The US military is handing over leftover equipment from the Iraq conflict to police under a military surplus program. Civil liberties groups have criticized the initiative as unnecessary and a move toward the militarization of American law enforcement. American law enforcement agencies have received 165 MRAPs – 18 ton, armored vehicles with gun turrets – this year, according to an AP investigation.... 

The US stock market plummeted to its lowest level in almost a month as a federal government shutdown stretched into its third day on Thursday. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 135 points after the closing bell. The 0.9 percent loss forced the Dow index to close at below 15,000 points. The broad-based Standard & Poor’s 500 index also fell 17 points, or 1 percent, to its lowest point... 

A parent trying to get answers regarding the curriculum his children are learning, was aggressively thrown out, arrested and charged with second-degree assault on a police officer during a school board meeting in Maryland last week. The father, Robert Small, challenged school officials arguing the Common Core curriculum is preparing kids for ‘community college, not Harvard.’ According to Michelle...