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Pieces of a collapsed bridge in the water next to large container ship
3 Questions
Structural engineer discusses Baltimore's Key Bridge collapse
Published March 26, 2024
Bridge expert Rachel Sangree talks about how long, continuous spans in the bridge design played a role in its collapse
Anton Dahbura
3 Questions
Why might the U.S. ban TikTok?
Published March 25, 2024
Hopkins cybersecurity expert Anton Dahbura explains the proposed regulation and the threats the app could pose to Americans
Clockwise from top left: Kathleen Cullen, Deok-Ho Kim, Andrew Feinberg, Eileen Haase, and Rebecca Schulman
Faculty honors
Five from JHU elected to AIMBE College of Fellows
Published March 25, 2024
Recognition honors individuals who have made outstanding contributions to engineering and medicine research, practice, or education
Illustration of human lungs affected by coronavirus
Artificial intelligence
AI can now detect COVID-19 in lung ultrasound images
Published March 20, 2024
An automated detection tool developed by Johns Hopkins researchers could help ER doctors diagnose patients quickly and accurately
Two aerial photographs of MSE Library. The one on the right is a deblurred version of the one on the left.
Artificial Intelligence
Engineers' new approach brings blurry images into focus
Published March 18, 2024 Video
New deblurring technology from JHU researchers could do everything from creating robotic navigation systems to saving vacation selfies
The robotic surgeon created by Hopkins researchers
Mechanical engineering
Robotic surgeon precisely removes cancerous tumors
Published March 18, 2024
A team of Johns Hopkins researchers designed a device that can successfully remove tumors from the tongue with accuracy rivaling human surgeons
Gregory Hager
Hager to head NSF directorate in information science, engineering
Published March 14, 2024
The directorate supports research in all areas of computer and information science and engineering, as well as advanced research cyberinfrastructure necessary for discovery in all science and engineering fields
Total eclipse of the Sun. The moon covers the sun in a solar eclipse.
Q+A
There goes the sun. Again?
Published March 14, 2024
Just seven years after the last total solar eclipse, millions of Americans will once again be in the path of daytime darkness on April 8
Illustration of a fast blazing asteroid meteor over Earth
Planetary science
Interstellar signal linked to aliens was actually just a truck
Published March 7, 2024
The findings from a Johns Hopkins University-led team raise doubts that materials pulled last year from the ocean are alien materials from a 2014 meteor fireball
Writing with old feather quill with flying letters of alphabet and ink stain
Artificial intelligence
Writing around an AI taboo
Published March 6, 2024
A new collection of AI-assisted writing assignments co-edited by University Writing Program lecturer Carly Schnitzler offers teachers practical ways to incorporate AI into their work while setting ground rules for its use