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View from the Mariana Trench, the deepest depths in the Western Pacific, 3d render illustration
Biology
AI helps reveal how life's building blocks adapt to high pressure
Published Sept 10, 2024
The findings by Johns Hopkins researchers show the potential of AI to dramatically increase the speed of scientific discovery
Paulette Clancy
Artificial intelligence
JHU, Morgan State partner for AI-driven microelectronics training
Published Sept 6, 2024
A $2.7 million NSF grant will launch a program to train a diverse graduate-student workforce to revolutionize semiconductor and microelectronics processing
George M. Wilson
In memoriam
George M. Wilson, philosopher of aesthetics who spent 28 years at Johns Hopkins, dies
Published Aug 28, 2024
Wilson, who left JHU in 2000, specialized in the philosophy of film, theory of action, philosophy of language, and the work of Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein
A nebula made up of cloudy gas and dust in the form of soft and wispy clouds and, in the centre, thin and highly detailed layers pressed close together. Large, bright stars surrounded by six long points of light are dotted over the image, as well as some small, point-like stars embedded in the clouds. The clouds are lit up in blue close to the stars; orange colours show clouds that glow in infrared light.
Astrophysics
Possible clues to how stars are born
Published Aug 27, 2024
Survey of young star-forming cluster offers evidence that the same cosmic processes that give birth to stars may also play a role in making objects only slightly bigger than Jupiter
Peter Pomerantsev and Anne Applebaum
Politics+Policy
Hopkins experts anchor new podcast on autocracy in the U.S.
Published Aug 19, 2024
Series features Anne Applebaum and Peter Pomerantsev, both senior fellows at the university's SNF Agora Institute
Omar Lloyd carries flats of grass plants while working on installing the Harbor Wetlands exhibit
Environmental science
Alum helps harbor wetland flourish
Published Aug 12, 2024 Video
Omar Lloyd, A&S '20, helped the National Aquarium bring a tidal salt marsh back to the Inner Harbor
Vector of USA Map Made of Stickman Figure with Patriotic Colors
Election 2024
Poll: Republicans who believe Trump won in 2020 expect November chaos
Published Aug 7, 2024
SNF Agora Institute publishes first of four polls designed to better understand growing divide between Republicans who do not accept 2020 election results and those who do
Julia Ye outside the World Trade Center in Baltimore on a sunny summer day with blue skies
Undergraduate education
Student interns spend summer 'InBaltimore'
Published July 31, 2024
For 10 weeks this summer, 13 students worked 40 hours a week at nonprofits, government agencies, and companies around the city
A sheet of stickers given to American citizens upon voting on election day
Voices
Could the Democrats choose a new presidential candidate?
Published July 16, 2024
In a 'New York Times' essay, Johns Hopkins political scientist Daniel Schlozman explains how the Democratic Party's charter allows for changing candidates
Concept art of exoplanet HD 189733b, a blue gas giant with yellow hue bands, up close with its parent star, a K-type that emits warm orange light.
Exoplanets
Nearby exoplanet reeks of rotten eggs
Published July 8, 2024
Johns Hopkins astronomers sniffed out the stinky atmosphere with Webb Telescope