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A toddler gets ready to select a toy from the machine, during the experiment.
Child development
Toddlers understand possibility
Published Nov 4, 2024
Children too young to know words like "impossible" and "improbable" nonetheless understand how possibility works, finds new work with 2- and 3-year-olds
A dusty, hilly field in Colombia on a sunny day
Paleontology
Terror bird fossil offers new insight into life 12 million years ago
Published Nov 4, 2024
While past terror bird fossils placed the meat-eating birds at 3 to 9 feet tall, new findings suggest that some were even bigger
A navy blue and green rendering of a human eye
Medicine
A visionary new tool for cataract surgery
Published Oct 31, 2024
Johns Hopkins scientists have pioneered a new color-changing hydrogel that could reduce complications from cataract surgery, one of the world's most commonly performed procedures
Headshot of Rigoberto Hernandez
Faculty honors
Johns Hopkins chemist Rigoberto Hernandez elected president of American Chemical Society
Published Oct 28, 2024
With more than 155,000 members, the American Chemical Society is one of the world's largest scientific societies
An air taxi prototype
3 questions
FAA clears path for air taxis, but is the technology ready?
Published Oct 25, 2024
Johns Hopkins aerospace engineer Jaafar El-Awady explains why flying vehicles are far from replacing ground transportation
From left, Gloria Kalnitskaya, Eric McAlexander, and Selena Shirkin at the 2024 Collegiate Inventors Competition
Entrepreneurship
Johns Hopkins team named runner-up in Collegiate Inventors Competition
Published Oct 25, 2024
Students take home $5,000 prize for fetal surgery innovation
Research Peng Zheng shows off the heart of the blood test, chip with a groundbreaking nanostructured surface on which blood is tested.
Medical innovation
Rapid detection of early heart attack warning signs
Published Oct 16, 2024
With heart attacks, every second counts. A Hopkins team developed a blood test that diagnoses them in minutes rather than hours and could be adapted as a tool for first responders and people at home.
From left, Dingchang Lin and Ziquan Zhuang
Faculty honors
Two researchers named Packard Fellows
Published Oct 15, 2024
Dingchang Lin, Ziquan Zhuang among 20 recipients of prestigious fellowship that supports creative and innovative lines of research by early career scientists
Baby with blue eyes looking away
Infant cognition
Babies' long looks: Can researchers trust them?
Published Oct 14, 2024
New analysis of 20 years of baby cognition work validates classic research technique
A group of people inspect some equipment in a lab setting
Century-old factory building now home to state-of-the-art facility
Published Oct 10, 2024
Engineering's Materials Characterization and Processing facility brings leading experts from around the world to Baltimore's Stieff Silver Building for inaugural workshop