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The Surgical Robot Transformer-Hierarchy performing a gallbladder surgery
Mechanical engineering
Robot performs first realistic surgery without human help
Published July 9, 2025 Video
In work led by Johns Hopkins researchers, the robot performed unflappably across trials and with the expertise of a skilled human surgeon, even during unexpected scenarios typical in real life medical emergencies
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Hopkins hosts energy summit for clean technology innovation
Published July 7, 2025
The inaugural Energy Technology and Science Bridge event brought together researchers, policymakers, and industry professionals
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Artificial intelligence
AI predicts patients likely to die of sudden cardiac arrest
Published July 2, 2025
The federally funded work led by Johns Hopkins researchers could save many lives and spare many people unnecessary medical interventions, including the implantation of unneeded defibrillators
Computer science teams tackle critical gaps in EMS training and mass casualty response with innovative digital platforms
Undergraduate research
From classroom to crisis
Published July 1, 2025
Computer science teams develop new digital platforms to tackle critical gaps in EMS training and mass casualty response
Two women in white lab coats are pictured among a large protest crowd
Research funding
Disrupted but determined: Lessons from Argentine scientists
Published July 1, 2025
Funding cuts and sky-high inflation have made researchers in Argentina thrifty and creative. What can U.S. colleagues learn from them?
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Artificial Intelligence
Teaching AI to admit uncertainty
Published June 26, 2025
Johns Hopkins researchers show how different "odds" can teach AI models to admit when they're not confident enough in an answer
Resembling fluorescent flower petals, this image shows the blood vessels in a mouse retina, as seen using confocal microscopy.
Artifact
Vision in bloom
Published Summer 2025
Resembling fluorescent flower petals, this image shows the blood vessels in a mouse retina / Johns Hopkins Magazine
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Q&A
Finding the virtue in AI
Published Summer 2025
Juan M. Lavista Ferres, the chief data scientist at Microsoft's AI for Good Lab, discusses how artificial intelligence might solve the world's most pressing issues / Johns Hopkins Magazine
A researcher holds a tiny, brown monkey skull between his fingers. The skull is no bigger than the palm of his hand.
Rewriting the fossil record
Published Summer 2025
Associate Professor Siobhán Cooke uses fossilized teeth to better understand the history of the world / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Closeup of MRI images of the brain
Neuroscience
Sweat science: A patch to detect TBI
Published Summer 2025 Video
In a basement laboratory in the School of Nursing, Jessica Gill leads a team at the frontier of TBI research / Johns Hopkins Magazine