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Total eclipse of the Sun. The moon covers the sun in a solar eclipse.

Q+A

There goes the sun. Again?

Published March 14, 2024

Just seven years after the last total solar eclipse, millions of Americans will once again be in the path of daytime darkness on April 8

Black and white photo of two children hugging on a street corner in Baltimore

Arts+Culture

Seeing Baltimore through a new lens

Published March 13, 2024

Meet the six Baltimore-based artists whose work will be on permanent display at JHU, helping to celebrate the city's flourishing artistic talent

A person in a blue sweater wears a War Up Close VR headset

Film+Media

An immersive view of war in Ukraine

Published March 8, 2024

War Up Close exhibit incorporates 360-degree panoramic images, drone footage, and 3D modeling to capture the devastation of the conflict

In memoriam

Historian Richard A. Goldthwaite dies at 90

Published March 7, 2024

Goldthwaite devoted his career to the cultural, social, and political impacts of Renaissance Florence's economic activities

Illustration of a fast blazing asteroid meteor over Earth

Planetary science

Interstellar signal linked to aliens was actually just a truck

Published March 7, 2024

The findings from a Johns Hopkins University-led team raise doubts that materials pulled last year from the ocean are alien materials from a 2014 meteor fireball

Writing with old feather quill with flying letters of alphabet and ink stain

Artificial intelligence

A new collection of AI-assisted writing assignments co-edited by University Writing Program lecturer Carly Schnitzler offers teachers practical ways to incorporate AI into their work while setting ground rules for its use

Cartoon speech and thought bubbles cram cover the image. Each shows a different Internet-related icon, such as a thumbs up, hashtag, email envelope, or at sign.

Technology+Society

How to measure the health of online communities

Published March 6, 2024

Being dominated by one group or ideology is the hallmark of an unhealthy online space, Hopkins experts say

Johns Hopkins physics doctoral student Alvin Modin in the lab

Materials science

Liquid crystals could revolutionize robots of the future

Published March 4, 2024

Robots, cameras could be made of liquid crystals, thanks to a new discovery that significantly expands the potential of the chemicals already common in computer displays