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FAA clears path for air taxis, but is the technology ready?

Published Oct 25, 2024

Johns Hopkins aerospace engineer Jaafar El-Awady explains why flying vehicles are far from replacing ground transportation

Research Peng Zheng shows off the heart of the blood test, chip with a groundbreaking nanostructured surface on which blood is tested.

Medical innovation

Rapid detection of early heart attack warning signs

Published Oct 16, 2024

With heart attacks, every second counts. A Hopkins team developed a blood test that diagnoses them in minutes rather than hours and could be adapted as a tool for first responders and people at home.

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Mechanical engineering

Smashing rocks for science

Published Aug 30, 2024

Hopkins team uses X-ray technology to observe what occurs when the top layer of an asteroid-like object is hit with extreme external force

Mechanical engineering

Mechanical engineering professor wins grant to fund turbulence research

Published Aug 22, 2024

Rui Ni receives $1.25M Moore Foundation grant to explore how chaotic air movement in storms influences the formation and behavior of lightning

Faculty honors

Mechanical engineer Yun Chen among inaugural recipients of NSF award

Published Aug 9, 2024

Three-year, $3M Trailblazer Engineering Impact Award will support Chen's research applying the rules of quantum mechanics to control how cells behave

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Mechanical engineering

New imaging technique could diagnose cancer metastasis

Published July 18, 2024

Johns Hopkins engineers have created an optical tool combining laser light and folded DNA to help clinicians distinguish between localized and metastatic cancers