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In a room tented in plastic, scientists in lab suits and hair nets inspect the Parker Solar Probe
Mission to the sun
Special delivery
Published Dec 20, 2017 Video
APL-built Parker Solar Probe heads to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center for environmental testing
A man wears safety goggles and holds up a test tube with dark liquid and examines it while a second man observes
Efficient electricity
Gilded age of electric cars?
Published Dec 19, 2017
Technique makes electric cars more efficient and cost-effective, helping accelerate movement away from fossil fuels
Spider Web with dew
Spider sense
Mysteries of the web
Published Dec 18, 2017 Video
Researchers aim to determine how spiders are able to build webs from spatial memory
Perceptual learning
Shorter breaks, better learning
Published Dec 18, 2017
Research suggests that for certain types of learning, success depends on the length of breaks during practice
A row of lab coats hang on hooks in a lab
Coalition seeks to increase transparency on life science career prospects
Published Dec 14, 2017
JHU joins eight research universities and a major cancer institute in effort to give would-be scientists clear data on education and career opportunities
Howard Katz (left) and Russell Taylor
Faculty inventors
Two named to National Academy of Inventors
Published Dec 12, 2017
WSE's Howard Katz, Russell Taylor join nine other JHU faculty who have been honored by the academy in the past
Open Data
Setting standards
Published Dec 8, 2017
New Data Standards Directory helps cities across the country report civic data like crime and election results in a consistent, uniform way
A group of people all gaze up into a spiral staircase
Design challenge
Ready to launch
Published Dec 7, 2017
Annual competition challenges mechanical engineering students to build a device to launch a foam football
Image shows a bisection view of the brain and a view of the brain from the top with colored images showing where activity takes place
Neuroscience
Why we can't always stop what we've started
Published Dec 7, 2017
It takes a lightning-fast interaction among several areas in the brain to stop, reverse, or otherwise change a plan already in progress, neuroscientists find
A fossil of a lizard is embedded in limestone and carefully excavated
Evolutionary biology
Meet Vadasaurus, an ancient sea creature
Published Dec 7, 2017
Fossil unlocks clues on evolution of certain types of reptiles from life on land to life in the sea / Hopkins Medicine