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Faculty Honors

Danielle Speller honored by American Institute of Physics

Published Nov 14, 2024

Co-sponsored by the National Society of Black Physicists, the award celebrates promising early-career physicists

A vibrant sunrise in the beautiful natural surroundings of Orlando Wetlands Park in central Florida

Q+A

Microbes, not fossil fuels, biggest source of rising atmospheric methane levels

Published Nov 12, 2024

Hopkins expert Scot Miller discusses a new analysis challenging assumptions about the drivers of spiraling global methane levels

Two surgical robot arms hold and tie suture material in a simulated surgical setting

Machine learning

Robot performs with skill of human doctor

Published Nov 11, 2024

Breakthrough training system utilizing imitation learning opens 'new frontier' in medical robotics

Artificial intelligence

Surgeons still key even as AI procedures advance

Published Nov 7, 2024

Johns Hopkins briefing explores the evolving role of robotics and artificial intelligence in surgery

A toddler gets ready to select a toy from the machine, during the experiment.

Child development

Toddlers understand possibility

Published Nov 4, 2024

Children too young to know words like "impossible" and "improbable" nonetheless understand how possibility works, finds new work with 2- and 3-year-olds

A dusty, hilly field in Colombia on a sunny day

Paleontology

Terror bird fossil offers new insight into life 12 million years ago

Published Nov 4, 2024

While past terror bird fossils placed the meat-eating birds at 3 to 9 feet tall, new findings suggest that some were even bigger

A navy blue and green rendering of a human eye

Medicine

A visionary new tool for cataract surgery

Published Oct 31, 2024

Johns Hopkins scientists have pioneered a new color-changing hydrogel that could reduce complications from cataract surgery, one of the world's most commonly performed procedures