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Bat flying through air
Science
Hearing the future
Published Nov 2, 2020
Johns Hopkins researchers discover that bats can use echolocation to predict where their prey is headed, providing new insights about how sound can be used to "see"
Helena Hahn at work in her home laboratory
Engineering
Collaboration comes home during the pandemic
Published Nov 2, 2020
Johns Hopkins senior Helena Hahn partners with graduate team Hearo to develop a flexible version of their acoustic sensor
Immunologists study SARS-CoV-2 in the lab
Research
A power boost for COVID-19 clinical trials
Published Oct 30, 2020
Strategies for better trial design could streamline and accelerate the testing of new coronavirus treatments
A woman holds a small round device the size of a large bottle cap to her neck
JHU team's acoustic sensor wins runner-up award in Collegiate Inventors Competition
Published Oct 29, 2020
The team, called Hearo, developed an acoustic sensor that can detect specific sounds in noisy environments
Colorful image of virus emerging from cells
Coronavirus
Johns Hopkins launches center for COVID-19 immunity research
Published Oct 28, 2020
Center is part of an emergency $300 million NIH initiative to understand the causes of severe COVID-19 and develop an effective vaccination program
Paramedics unload a patient outside a hospital's Emergency Department
COVID-19
New models can help hospitals stay ahead of COVID-19 surges
Published Oct 27, 2020
Optimization models will help hospital systems better manage critical resources if coronavirus cases spike this fall and winter
Andrew Hundt sits beside his block-stacking robot
Computer Science
Dog training methods help JHU teach robots to learn new tricks
Published Oct 26, 2020 Video
Through the kind of positive reinforcement used to train dogs, a robot named Spot was able to learn a new task far faster than usual
Illustration of a brain overlaid with a computer motherboard
Artificial intelligence
'Spooky' similarity in how brains, computers see
Published Oct 23, 2020
Characteristics of human 3D vision discovered in computer vision network only designed to 'view' in 2D
Detail from infographic shows an infected woman speaking
COVID-19
New model calculates risk of COVID-19 transmission
Published Oct 21, 2020
The Contagion Airborne Transmission inequality seeks to make sense of the many variables, including environmental ones, that can affect transmissibility of COVID-19
A model wears the ClearMask, and her smile is fully visible
Alumni
ClearMask makes and sells 11 million masks internationally
Published Oct 19, 2020
With FDA clearance, maximum barrier protection, and supply chain advantages, the business founded by Johns Hopkins alumni improves the standard of care for patients around the world