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DART spacecraft in space near two asteroids, conceptual image
NASA launches DART spacecraft on asteroid collision course
Published Nov 24, 2021
The mission, designed and managed by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, is the world's first to test technology for defending the planet against potential asteroid or comet hazards
Illustration of chat bots
Computer Science
The limitations of AI-generated text
Published Nov 22, 2021
Capabilities of autoregressive AI models will always be limited by their inability to reason like humans, says PhD candidate Chu-Cheng Lin
James Bellingham
Profile
James Bellingham's life aquatic
Published Nov 19, 2021
The expert in autonomous underwater vehicles joins Johns Hopkins as Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of exploration robotics
Percy Pierre
Graduate education
Doctoral fellowship program honors legacy of Whiting School alum Percy Pierre
Published Nov 18, 2021
Awards recognize outstanding incoming students from underrepresented backgrounds and will provide monthly stipends, tuition, health insurance, and fees for the first two years of graduate school
Server room
Q+A
Creating a culture of cybersecurity
Published Nov 18, 2021
In advance of his book Confronting Cyber Risk, engineer Gregory Falco discusses how and why organizations should incorporate cybersecurity into everyday business and planning
Thale Cress (Arabidopsis thaliana)
Genetics
Uncovering the secrets of a model plant genome
Published Nov 15, 2021
Results have implications for understanding human genes, says Michael Schatz, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Biology
Senior couple on a day hike in forest
Artificial intelligence
$20M grant will help develop technologies for healthy aging
Published Nov 15, 2021
Multicenter collaboration will focus on the use of artificial intelligence to improve long-term health, independence for older people
Solar panels
Sustainability
Researchers will use power of AI to optimize materials for solar energy
Published Nov 5, 2021
SPIRAL Center is one of 10 projects to receive support from Department of Energy initiative focused on the development of low-cost energy technologies
Defocused empty corridor in a hospital.
Engineering
Master's students develop ideas to improve hospital safety
Published Nov 4, 2021
Since its inception in 2015, the interdisciplinary project through the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research has prompted meaningful changes in hospital protocol
Hackled orb weaver spider in a web
behavioral biology
Spiders' web secrets unraveled
Published Nov 2, 2021
Krieger School researchers first to document every step of spider-web building