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Annie Kathuria looks at a computer screen while wearing purple lab gloves
Brain science
Neural basis of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder
Published Sept 22, 2025
Using brain organoids, scientists discover how neurons might misfire due to schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
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Artificial Intelligence
AI lab assistant predicts material properties in seconds
Published Sept 19, 2025
Hopkins professor Kamal Choudhary has created a new AI tool for materials scientists, providing accurate answers to complex questions
From left, Victor Ticllacuri, Yuxuan Bai, and Nitish Thakor pose in front of a poster display for their invention at WSE Design Day 2025. Nitish Thakor is holding a lifelike baby doll, used to demonstrate their invention
Biomedical engineering
Students win top prize for novel neonatal care device
Published Sept 19, 2025
A device created by Johns Hopkins engineering students to help infants with nerve injuries wins top honor at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Innovation Showcase
Robert Stevens observes an electrocardiogram monitor
Artificial intelligence
AI fares better than doctors at predicting complications after surgery
Published Sept 17, 2025
Johns Hopkins researchers create an artificial intelligence model to mine rich, predictive data from routine ECG tests
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Chemical+electrical engineering
New methods for smaller microchips
Published Sept 12, 2025
New materials and a novel process could aid efforts to develop smaller, faster, and affordable microchips to power a range of modern electronics
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Cancer research
New urine-based test to ID prostate cancers
Published Sept 12, 2025
This novel approach could significantly reduce the need for invasive, often painful biopsies
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Artificial intelligence
Multilingual AI often reinforces bias
Published Sept 2, 2025
A new study from Johns Hopkins finds that multilingual AI privileges dominant languages, deepening divides rather than democratizing access to information
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Physics+Astronomy
New dark matter detectors look for 'wimpier' particles
Published Aug 27, 2025
Hopkins researchers help develop technology to broaden search for universe's greatest mystery
Ishan Barman
Mechanical engineering
New quantum sensors can detect faint molecular vibrations 
Published Aug 25, 2025
A team of Johns Hopkins engineers has developed a new, more powerful method to observe molecular vibrations, an advance that could have far-reaching implications for early disease detection
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Mechanical engineering
3D X-ray study reveals how rock grains move and stress builds
Published Aug 21, 2025
For the first time, scientists watched sandstone deform from the inside out, grain by grain, revealing insights that could predict earthquakes and improve oil and gas reservoirs