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Inspired design
Battle of the rubber bands
Published Dec 9, 2016 Video
Students launch plush blue jays in annual mechanical engineering challenge
Drone with blue cooler attached underneath
Emergency medicine
Blood drops
Published Dec 7, 2016
Blood products unaffected during drone transport, Johns Hopkins study shows
Quantum physics
Between two worlds
Published Dec 6, 2016
Scientists experiment with insulator material that straddles the world of classical physics and the hidden quantum realm
Engineering
Pedal play
Published Winter 2016 Video
After losing his hands to meningitis, student Gyorgy Levay devises a way to play video games—with his feet / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Artifact
Zebrafish pedagogy
Published Winter 2016
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Evidence
The collision that made the moon
Published Winter 2016
Researchers simulate the collision they hypothesize created the moon / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Space oddities
Published Winter 2016
Data from New Horizons reveals Pluto and Charon are anything but dead balls of rock / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Hallucinogen eases depression, anxiety in cancer patients
Published Dec 1, 2016
In small study, psilocybin, the active compound in 'magic mushrooms,' increased life satisfaction among patients with life-threatening cancer / Johns Hopkins Medicine
Peter Agre (left) and Carol Greider (right)
Open letter
To Trump, from scientists
Published Nov 30, 2016
JHU's Agre, Greider join more than 2,300 scientists in urging new administration to respect 'scientific integrity and independence' / The Washington Post
Evolution
Lucy liked to climb
Published Nov 30, 2016
CT scans of fossil's bones indicate human ancestor spent a significant amount of time in trees