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Resembling fluorescent flower petals, this image shows the blood vessels in a mouse retina, as seen using confocal microscopy.
Artifact
Vision in bloom
Published Summer 2025
Resembling fluorescent flower petals, this image shows the blood vessels in a mouse retina / Johns Hopkins Magazine
A smiling headshot of Juan M. Lavista Ferres
Q&A
Finding the virtue in AI
Published Summer 2025
Feeling uneasy about the rise of AI? Microsoft data scientist and Whiting School alum Lavista Ferres finds virtue in the technology and is more bullish about than bullied by its rise. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
A researcher holds a tiny, brown monkey skull between his fingers. The skull is no bigger than the palm of his hand.
Rewriting the fossil record
Published Summer 2025
Associate Professor Siobhán Cooke uses fossilized teeth to better understand the history of the world / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Closeup of MRI images of the brain
Neuroscience
Sweat science: A patch to detect TBI
Published Summer 2025 Video
In a basement laboratory in the School of Nursing, Jessica Gill leads a team at the frontier of TBI research / Johns Hopkins Magazine
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