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Artificial Intelligence
Teaching AI to admit uncertainty
Published June 26, 2025
Johns Hopkins researchers show how different “odds” can teach AI models to admit when they’re not confident enough in an answer, rather than risk a wrong answer
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Mechanical engineering
Students create braille printer for local nonprofit
Published June 26, 2025
Engineering students built a braille printer to be operated by blind and visually impaired workers in Baltimore
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Q+A
Could artificial intelligence make war and peace decisions?
Published June 12, 2025
Engineering instructor and former NSA strategist Russ Berkoff discusses how AI tools could prevent—or escalate—international foreign relations crises
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Astrophysics
Shining a light on the cosmic dawn
Published June 11, 2025
Small telescopes in Chile are first on Earth to cut through the cosmic noise, peering back more than 13 billion years to the universe's first light
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Space systems expert explains technical challenges of building a 'Golden Dome'
June 3, 2025
Global Map Charting A Virus Pandemic
Artificial intelligence reimagines infectious disease forecasting
June 6, 2025
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Study shows how scientists could use black holes as supercolliders
June 4, 2025

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Engineering meets ballet: A smart solution for safer pointe work
June 17, 2025
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Teaching AI to admit uncertainty
June 26, 2025
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Johns Hopkins students' invention prints braille beer labels for local nonprofit
June 26, 2025
Computer science teams tackle critical gaps in EMS training and mass casualty response with innovative digital platforms
Engineering students develop emergency response tech
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Global Map Charting A Virus Pandemic
Artificial intelligence reimagines infectious disease forecasting
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New data shows MMR vaccination rate decline across the U.S.
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Disrupted but determined: Lessons from Argentine scientists
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Feeling is believing: Bionic hand 'knows' what it's touching, grasps like a human
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Featured topic: cybersecurity

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Cybersecurity
Hopkins students thwart fitness tracker hackers
Published May 20, 2025
In a new course, students prepare for the FDA's ramped up security requirements for insulin pumps, pacemakers, and other wearables
Anton Dahbura
3 Questions
Why might the U.S. ban TikTok?
Published March 25, 2024
Hopkins cybersecurity expert Anton Dahbura explains the proposed regulation and the threats the app could pose to Americans
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Expert Opinion
Is TikTok stealing more than just your time?
Published Dec 21, 2022
Cybersecurity expert Anton Dahbura discusses growing concerns with the popular app, citing potential data theft as a risk to U.S. security
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Cybersecurity
Computer scientist identifies JavaScript vulnerability in thousands of websites
Published March 14, 2022
ProbeTheProto framework helps identify and alert websites vulnerable to a flaw that allows malicious actors to 'pollute' important web code
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Cybersecurity
Now's the time to protect your computer networks from cyberattack
Published March 4, 2022
Anton Dahbura from the Information Security Institute suggests that individuals and enterprises should take steps now to secure cyber systems against attack from Russian agents
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Computer science teams tackle critical gaps in EMS training and mass casualty response with innovative digital platforms
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From classroom to crisis
Published July 1, 2025
Computer science teams develop new digital platforms to tackle critical gaps in EMS training and mass casualty response
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Disrupted but determined: Lessons from Argentine scientists
Published July 1, 2025
Funding cuts and sky-high inflation have made researchers in Argentina thrifty and creative. What can U.S. colleagues learn from them?
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Artificial Intelligence
Teaching AI to admit uncertainty
Published June 26, 2025
Johns Hopkins researchers show how different "odds" can teach AI models to admit when they're not confident enough in an answer
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Vision in bloom
Published Summer 2025
Resembling fluorescent flower petals, this image shows the blood vessels in a mouse retina / Johns Hopkins Magazine
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Q&A
Finding the virtue in AI
Published Summer 2025
Juan M. Lavista Ferres, the chief data scientist at Microsoft's AI for Good Lab, discusses how artificial intelligence might solve the world's most pressing issues / Johns Hopkins Magazine
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Rewriting the fossil record
Published Summer 2025
Associate Professor Siobhán Cooke uses fossilized teeth to better understand the history of the world / Johns Hopkins Magazine
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Sweat Science: A Patch to Detect TBI
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Mapping ocean life
Published Summer 2025
At APL, a team is developing portable tech to detect ocean species using eDNA. Their goal: real-time, low-cost monitoring to improve shipping lanes, protect marine ecosystems, and more / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Four women stand behind a braille printer
Mechanical engineering
Students create braille printer for local nonprofit
Published June 26, 2025
Engineering students built a braille printer to be operated by blind and visually impaired workers in Baltimore
Close-up image of a dancer standing on her toes in ballet pointe shoes; a black control board is wrapped around her right ankle and connected into the toe of the shoe
Biomedical engineering
A smart solution for safer pointe work
Published June 17, 2025 Video
Two dancers teamed up with fellow Hopkins master's students to create a smart toe pad and ankle band designed to help prevent injuries in ballet dancers who perform en pointe
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