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Undergraduate research
Could axolotls hold the key to restoring human vision?
Published Dec 11, 2025
Axolotls can regenerate optic nerves, retinas, and parts of their brain. Provost's Undergraduate Research Award-winner Ted Chor wants to understand how.
Jun Liu and Barbara Slusher
Faculty honors
Two Johns Hopkins scientists named to National Academy of Inventors
Published Dec 11, 2025
Jun Liu and Barbara Slusher are among 169 fellows recognized for contributions to science and society
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Mechanical Engineering
First-year engineers' minicars battle it out on racetrack
Published Dec 9, 2025
Mechanical Engineering's annual first-year design competition displayed a vast array of automobiles
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Exhibition
Wonder and discovery coalesce at Vatican Observatory
Published Dec 8, 2025
Wonder Bound, the product of a collaboration between JHU, the Space Telescope Science Institute, and the Vatican Observatory, brings images from the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes to a historic venue
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Evolutionary Biology
Study: Ancient pterosaurs rapidly evolved for flight
Published Dec 4, 2025
Pterosaurs acquired flight "in a burst at their origin," giving scientists new insights into the biological laws of flight
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Artificial intelligence
Small changes make some AI systems more brain-like
Published Dec 1, 2025
Artificial intelligence systems that are designed with a biologically inspired architecture can simulate human brain activity before ever being trained on any data, according to Hopkins research
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Psychology
Your brain on fiction
Published Dec 1, 2025
A flash fiction contest hosted by The Hopkins Review uses short stories to push the boundaries of psychology research
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Artificial intelligence
New AI could teach the next generation of surgeons
Published Dec 1, 2025 Video
Doctors too busy? AI offers med students real-time expert feedback
an astrocyte on the novel nanowire platform
Mechanical engineering
Nanowire breakthrough reveals brain's unsung heroes
Published Nov 24, 2025
Platform studies elusive astrocytes, the brain's most abundant and mysterious cells, responsible for regulating communication between neurons and helping to maintain the blood-brain barrier
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39 Johns Hopkins-affiliated scholars among world's most cited researchers
Published Nov 19, 2025
Annual list compiled by Clarivate Analytics recognizes researchers whose publications rank in the top 1% of citations