Archived articles

Neuroscience

Can AI catch up to us?

Published Winter 2020

Johns Hopkins neuroscientist Daeyeol Lee's new book explores the definition of true intelligence / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Science

Hearing the future

Published Nov 2, 2020

Johns Hopkins researchers discover that bats can use echolocation to predict where their prey is headed, providing new insights about how sound can be used to "see"

Illustration of a brain overlaid with a computer motherboard

Artificial intelligence

'Spooky' similarity in how brains, computers see

Published Oct 23, 2020

Characteristics of human 3D vision discovered in computer vision network only designed to 'view' in 2D

Neuroscience

"Nature versus nurture" may roll off the tongue, but in Unique: The New Science of Human Individuality, neuroscientist David Linden argues that most traits fall somewhere between the two. / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Neuroscience

Antidepressant harms developing neurons in lab-grown 'mini-brains'

Published July 13, 2020

Model of a developing brain derived from stem cells could allow for the rapid and more reliable testing of drugs to detect neurotoxicity

SARS-CoV-2

Lab-grown 'mini-brains' suggest COVID-19 virus can infect human brain cells

Published July 1, 2020

A Johns Hopkins collaboration has demonstrated that the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, can infect and replicate within a human mini-brain model

Scholarships

Johns Hopkins grad awarded prestigious Luce Scholarship

Published March 10, 2020

Maya Foster is a scientist, an activist, a dancer, musician, and designer. But through it all, one thing remains constant: she's determined to make an impact.