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The robodrop tests places dots of antibiotics on a dish.
Robotics
Meet RoboDrop, the superbug slayer
Published Feb 23, 2024 Video
Hopkins researchers develop robotic platform capable of rapidly screening multiple combinations of antibiotics simultaneously to find the most potent mixtures
Team Awesome from the Waldorf School
Tower of power
Annual contest gets students noodling around
Published Feb 23, 2024
National Engineers Week competition pits area middle schoolers against Hopkins undergrads to build the tallest tower out of pasta and marshmallows
A front view photo of kale in the garden
Environmental health
Superfood safety
Published Feb 21, 2024
Novel chemical analysis by a Johns Hopkins-led team provides insight into safety of Maryland-grown kale
The 2024 Sloan Research Fellows from Johns Hopkins are (clockwise from top left) Stephen Fried, Benjamin Grimmer, Justus Kebschull, Jonathan Lynch, and Yahui Zhang
Awards+Honors
Five JHU scientists named Sloan Research Fellows
Published Feb 20, 2024
Stephen Fried, Benjamin Grimmer, Justus Kebschull, Jonathan Lynch, and Yahui Zhang recognized for their potential to become leaders in their respective fields
Photograph of a doctor sitting at a desk, writing; only his arms are visible. In front of him is a laptop, and next to the laptop is a stethoscope.
Artificial intelligence
Improving AI accuracy in medical settings
Published Feb 20, 2024
Johns Hopkins and Columbia University computer scientists combat the inaccurate correlations that artificial intelligence learns from text data
cartoon woman sings into a giant, human-sized microphone
Artificial intelligence
AI innovation helps create authentic, pitch perfect vocals
Published Feb 12, 2024 Video
Neural network Diff-Pitcher, developed at Johns Hopkins University, breaks barriers in pitch-correction technology
Gilman Hall photographed from the ground to capture the clock tower in sunny blue skies framed by green trees
'U.S. News' Rankings
Engineering online programs again ranked among nation's best
Published Feb 7, 2024
Three Whiting School of Engineering online programs now occupy the No. 1 spot
A pigeon in flight
Biology
Scientists pinpoint key to evolution of bird flight
Published Feb 6, 2024
By pairing PET scans of modern pigeons with studies of dinosaur fossils, scientists learn why some vertebrates fly
An illustration of how a supermassive blackhole would make stars in the first 50 million years of the universe. The foreground shows stars in the making, gas clouds getting crushed by the black hole’s powerful magnetism. The background shows fully formed stars. A spiral of dust and gas revolving like a storm around the black hole also is shown. Also, the black hole shoots out plasma and energy upwards from the center of this storm.
Astrophysics
Which came first: black holes or galaxies?
Published Feb 6, 2024
Black holes not only existed at the dawn of time, they birthed new stars and supercharged galaxy formation, a new analysis of James Webb Space Telescope data suggests
Two observations of a portion of the galaxy NGC 628 are split diagonally, with Webb’s observations at top left and Hubble’s at bottom right.
Space exploration
JWST zooms in on 19 nearby spiral galaxies
Published Jan 29, 2024
Hopkins research scientist David Thilker explains how studying this treasure trove of images can help shed light on the star formation process