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Idea

A jellyfish-inspired sensor

Published Summer 2023

Using a design inspired by one of the ocean's best sailors, a team of scientists at the Applied Physics Lab is developing a low-cost sensor for ocean observations / Johns Hopkins Magazine

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Innovative care

Hopkins AITC announces awardees of second funding round

Published June 16, 2023

Grant recipients–hailing from academia, industry, and clinical practice—will receive funding to develop new devices and other aging-related innovations

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Neuroscience

Psychedelic drugs reopen 'critical periods' for social learning

Published June 14, 2023

Johns Hopkins scientists say the findings in mice offer a new explanation for how psychedelic drugs work

Quebec Canada Wildfire Smoke Consumes New Jersey and New York City June 7 2023

Environmental health

Wildfires likely to grow more common on East Coast, experts predict

Published June 12, 2023

Hopkins scholars discuss the harmful effects of smoke from the Canadian wildfires and how residents can protect themselves and prepare for next time

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Neuroscience

Machine learning helps scientists see synapse changes

Published June 7, 2023

Visualizing connections in the brain could yield insights into how our brains change with learning, aging, injury, and disease

Postdoc honors

Chemistry postdoc named Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow

Published June 6, 2023

Kelsie Wentz will start a two-year project to develop hybrid inorganic-organic conjugated polymers with unique semiconducting properties

In Memoriam

Donald Price, a pioneer in clinical and experimental neuropathology, dies at 87

Published May 31, 2023

Price, the founding director of the Division of Neuropathology at Johns Hopkins Medicine is remembered for his mentorship and influential research

Artificial intelligence

This ChatGPT-inspired large language model speaks fluent finance

Published May 31, 2023

Mark Dredze, associate professor of computer science, discusses BloombergGPT, the first large language model built specifically for the finance industry