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Peter Thielen in Antarctica
Mapping ocean life
Published Summer 2025
At APL, a team is developing portable tech to detect ocean species using eDNA. Their goal: real-time, low-cost monitoring to improve shipping lanes, protect marine ecosystems, and more / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Protein folding illustration
Biochemistry
A master of protein origami
Published Summer 2025 Video
Johns Hopkins chemist Stephen Fried has spent decades investigating how protein cells fold, unfold, and misfold, a cause of many neurodegenerative diseases and our cognitive decline. His pioneering work could provide the basis for humans living longer, better, and with our memories intact. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Four women stand behind a braille printer
Mechanical engineering
Students create braille printer for local nonprofit
Published June 26, 2025
Engineering students built a braille printer to be operated by blind and visually impaired workers in Baltimore
Close-up image of a dancer standing on her toes in ballet pointe shoes; a black control board is wrapped around her right ankle and connected into the toe of the shoe
Biomedical engineering
A smart solution for safer pointe work
Published June 17, 2025 Video
Two dancers teamed up with fellow Hopkins master's students to create a smart toe pad and ankle band designed to help prevent injuries in ballet dancers who perform en pointe
Illustration of a green digitized world map
Q+A
Could artificial intelligence make war and peace decisions?
Published June 12, 2025
Engineering instructor and former NSA strategist Russ Berkoff discusses how AI tools could prevent—or escalate—international foreign relations crises
Two telescopes set up on the ground with patches of snow surrounding them, blue sky in the background
Astrophysics
Shining a light on the cosmic dawn
Published June 11, 2025
Small telescopes in Chile are first on Earth to cut through the cosmic noise, peering back more than 13 billion years to the universe's first light
Global Map Charting A Virus Pandemic
Public health
AI reimagines infectious disease forecasting
Published June 6, 2025
The new tool is the first to use large language modeling to predict infectious disease risk
artistic rendition of a supermassive black hole
Astrophysics
How scientists could use black holes as supercolliders
Published June 4, 2025
Scientists could turn to black holes for cheaper, natural alternatives to expensive facilities searching for dark matter.
Jaime Madrigano
Research matters
How extreme heat affects America's most vulnerable
Published June 3, 2025
Federally funded research by JHU epidemiologist Jaime Madrigano aims to identify neighborhood characteristics and behavior patterns that increase vulnerability to heat
Highly detailed 3D generated image with volumetric clouds lit by US city lights. Made from high res 20k textures by NASA
3 Questions
Technical challenges of building a 'Golden Dome'
Published June 3, 2025
Space systems expert Patrick Binning discusses how a comprehensive missile defense system for the United States might work