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U.Ss form 1040, individual Income tax return document for tax year 2022
Artificial intelligence
AI could help close tax loopholes
Published April 6, 2023
Tech and law experts created Shelter Check—software that could solve a billion-dollar problem
Jack Iwashyna
Jack Iwashyna joins JHU as Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
Published April 5, 2023
Iwashyna blends acute care expertise with health services research to better understand how an array of factors affect a patient's life course
Benjamin Killeen, a PhD student at Johns Hopkins, works with AI-generated data
Artificial intelligence
AI data better than the real thing
Published March 20, 2023
Hopkins researchers find that algorithms trained on manufactured data can be even better than the real thing for important surgical tasks
Cupola porthole on the International space station
Space safety
Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon to co-lead new NASA institute
Published March 16, 2023
The JHU-CMU team is spearheading a Space Technology Research Institute to prevent failure in additively manufactured spaceflight materials
Tissue chambers loaded into a plate habitat designed for research aboard the International Space Station
Biomedical engineering
Heart tissue heads to space
Published March 15, 2023 Video
The experiments on the International Space Station aim to inform researchers' understanding and treatment of age-related cardiac problems
The complete set of neurons in an insect brain shown as colorful, balloon-like objects in a multicolored cluster of reds, greens, blues, purples, and pinks
Neuroscience
Scientists complete first map of an insect brain
Published March 9, 2023 Video
Researchers from Hopkins and Cambridge map the brain of a baby fruit fly, a landmark achievement that brings scientists closer to true understanding of the mechanism of thought
A forest with pixels
Q+A
How AI can help combat climate change
Published March 7, 2023
Hopkins AI expert Jim Bellingham discusses potential uses of AI to track and mitigate the effects of climate change ahead of a March 15 presentation at the South by Southwest Conference
Technology and nature concept, surreal artwork, robot hand with dragonfly , conceptual of happiness freedom and hope, futuristic painting 3D illustration, science
Q+A
Can we trust AI?
Published March 6, 2023
From Alexa to a robot running amok in the movie 'M3GAN', artificial intelligence is part of everyday life and is capturing our imagination. Johns Hopkins AI expert Rama Chellappa helps us sort out fact from fiction, and whether we should embrace the 'AI spring'.
An illustration of antibodies on a shelf
Disease treatment
Check this out: A new approach to creating antibody libraries
Published March 1, 2023
The new approach to antibody libraries could expedite the antibody-creation process and accelerate the discovery of therapeutic antibody candidates and vaccines
An illustration of a person
Mechanical engineering
The lowdown on lower back pain
Published March 1, 2023
Study investigates the source of back and joint pain with the goal of reverse engineering treatments