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Physics+Astronomy
Galaxies have gotten hotter as they've gotten older
Published Nov 10, 2020
As galaxies gather gases through their gravitational pull, they grow larger and heat up, allowing physicists to measure the gradual increase in temperature as a function of the age of the universe
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Theoretical physicist brings science to the people with YouTube series
Published Nov 4, 2020 Video
Johns Hopkins' Jared Kaplan partners with Scientific American for a series that aims to make complex science accessible for a general audience
Sri Sarma
Tech ventures
Sri Sarma wins inauguaral Pitch It On! competition
Published Nov 3, 2020
Competition concluded a year of Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures programming that aimed to support female innovators and inventors
Bat flying through air
Science
Hearing the future
Published Nov 2, 2020 Video
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
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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
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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
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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