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Undergraduate research
APL researchers, Hopkins undergrads team up for brain mapping project
Published Dec 5, 2017 Video
CIRCUIT summer internship program trains students in neuroanatomy for project to improve machine learning
Charles L. Bennett poses with gold and silver WMAP device
Breakthrough Prize
Big Breakthrough for Bennett
Published Dec 3, 2017 Video
Johns Hopkins astrophysicist Charles Bennett shares $3M Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for groundbreaking WMAP space mission
CRISPR
Optimizing a cutting-edge technology
Published Dec 1, 2017
What's the best way to edit genes with CRISPR? Scientists propose 'rules' to improve consistency, efficiency
Cartoon illustration depicts a pink lumpy asteroid with its fist clenched, being fired at by a dual-winged spacecraft
Space evaders
DARTing asteroids
Published Winter 2017
If an asteroid 1 kilometer in size hit Earth, it would release as much energy as the world's combined nuclear arsenal / Johns Hopkins Magazine
An artist's rendering depicts a furry tan monkey clinging to a tree branch
Paleontology
Then came people
Published Winter 2017
Paleontologists believe that for millions of years, the Jamaican monkey had a pretty sweet life on the island—until people came along / Johns Hopkins Magazine
A woman holds a square of jelly in one hand and adjusts a knob on a microscope with the other hand
Lab Tech
Magnified in 3-D
Published Winter 2017 Video
New three-dimensional microscope allows researchers unprecedented views of organs, tissue, and even live specimens / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Spillway of the Conowingo Dam shows water filtering out from a large concrete structure
ECOLOGY
Dam near full
Published Winter 2017
For the past 90 years, the Conowingo Dam has prevented fertilizer runoff from nearby farms from entering the Chesapeake, but as the dam fills with silt, it becomes less effective / Johns Hopkins Magazine
New cool tools
Inhale, exhale, analyze
Published Winter 2017
With an EPA grant, a Hopkins team has built 250 WeatherCubes to help scientists, residents, and policymakers understand air quality / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Walter Murch
'Walter just knows stuff'
Published Winter 2017
Oscar-winning film editor and sound designer Walter Murch likes to dive into obscure subjects—including some discounted 18th-century astrophysics that, he thinks, deserves another look / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Illustration shows one gray elephant in a long line of multicolored elephant offspring with a person standing nearby looking at a device
Genetics
Revising the genome
Published Winter 2017
CRISPR lets scientists edit our genetic source code. This is going to be interesting. / Johns Hopkins Magazine