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Science+Technology

Chemical+electrical engineering

New methods for smaller microchips

Published Sept 12, 2025

New materials and a novel process could aid efforts to develop smaller, faster, and affordable microchips to power a range of modern electronics

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Cancer research

New urine-based test to ID prostate cancers

Published Sept 12, 2025

This novel approach could significantly reduce the need for invasive, often painful biopsies

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Artificial intelligence

Multilingual AI often reinforces bias

Published Sept 2, 2025

A new study from Johns Hopkins finds that multilingual AI privileges dominant languages, deepening divides rather than democratizing access to information

Physics+Astronomy

New dark matter detectors look for 'wimpier' particles

Published Aug 27, 2025

Hopkins researchers help develop technology to broaden search for universe's greatest mystery

Mechanical engineering

New quantum sensors can detect faint molecular vibrations 

Published Aug 25, 2025

A team of Johns Hopkins engineers has developed a new, more powerful method to observe molecular vibrations, an advance that could have far-reaching implications for early disease detection

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Mechanical engineering

3D X-ray study reveals how rock grains move and stress builds

Published Aug 21, 2025

For the first time, scientists watched sandstone deform from the inside out, grain by grain, revealing insights that could predict earthquakes and improve oil and gas reservoirs