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Mechanical engineering
Smashing rocks for science
Published Aug 30, 2024
Hopkins team uses X-ray technology to observe what occurs when the top layer of an asteroid-like object is hit with extreme external force
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Environmental health
How Labor Day crowds affect local streams
Published Aug 29, 2024
New research from Johns Hopkins provides insight into the compounds and chemicals people are splashing around in when their favorite swimming spots are packed
A nebula made up of cloudy gas and dust in the form of soft and wispy clouds and, in the centre, thin and highly detailed layers pressed close together. Large, bright stars surrounded by six long points of light are dotted over the image, as well as some small, point-like stars embedded in the clouds. The clouds are lit up in blue close to the stars; orange colours show clouds that glow in infrared light.
Astrophysics
Possible clues to how stars are born
Published Aug 27, 2024
Survey of young star-forming cluster offers evidence that the same cosmic processes that give birth to stars may also play a role in making objects only slightly bigger than Jupiter
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Cancer research
JHU gets more than $20M to develop advanced surgical techniques for cancer
Published Aug 22, 2024
Funding is part of $150M awarded by ARPA-H in support of the Cancer Moonshot initiative to fast-track discovery in cancer research
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Mechanical engineering
Mechanical engineering professor wins grant to fund turbulence research
Published Aug 22, 2024
Rui Ni receives $1.25M Moore Foundation grant to explore how chaotic air movement in storms influences the formation and behavior of lightning
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Opioid epidemic
Overdose deaths lower U.S. life expectancy by nearly a year
Published July 30, 2024
Data analysis sheds light on the scope of opioid-related deaths, including sharply rising totals among young minorities
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Artificial intelligence
Congressional staffers attend AI policy briefing at Bloomberg Center
Published July 26, 2024
Johns Hopkins experts recently briefed policymakers about the potential of artificial intelligence to advance everything from national security to medicine
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Biomedical engineering
Using AI to measure brain pressure in neurocritical patients
Published July 22, 2024
Undergrad biomedical engineering project yields noninvasive method to measure life-threatening intracranial pressure
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Biomedical engineering
A less burdensome approach to sickle cell treatment
Published July 18, 2024
A Johns Hopkins team has developed a gene editing approach that could make the treatment of sickle cell disease shorter and less risky, relieving some of the burden on patients
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Mechanical engineering
New imaging technique could diagnose cancer metastasis
Published July 18, 2024
Johns Hopkins engineers have created an optical tool combining laser light and folded DNA to help clinicians distinguish between localized and metastatic cancers