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illustration of crystals
Materials discovery
The magic shop
Published Spring 2020 Video
The PARADIM Bulk Crystal Growth Facility seeks to create materials that have never before existed. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
illustration of a woman looking through the lens of her cellphone
The outsize influence of anti-vax ads on social media
Published Spring 2020
A majority of the anti-vaccine Facebook ads came from just two groups, study finds. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Coronavirus
Coronavirus
Study: COVID-19 symptoms start about five days after exposure
Published March 9, 2020
Bloomberg School study suggests a median incubation period of 5.1 days for the new coronavirus, affirming the 14-day quarantine used by the CDC and other health authorities
A house in the rain
Earth and planetary sciences
More pavement, more problems
Published March 5, 2020
Study finds that for every percentage point increase in pavement and impervious surfaces, annual floods increase by 3.3%
Arturo Casadevall
Coronavirus
Could a serum prevent COVID-19?
Published March 3, 2020
Infectious disease expert Arturo Casadevall looks to a forgotten case study for ways to prevent the spread of coronavirus / The Wall Street Journal
Conceptual illustration of a researcher looking at a curved universe
Cosmology
Take that, flat universers
Published Feb 26, 2020
Cosmologist Joseph Silk's recent analysis of the cosmic microwave background suggests that maybe, just maybe, the universe could be a curved sphere
An engineer works on a snake robot
Robotics
Slithering snakes help engineers learn how to build better robots
Published Feb 18, 2020 Video
Mechanical engineers design a snake robot based on the climbing technique of the kingsnake that could help advance search-and-rescue technology
Gregg Semenza
State House honor
Capital congrats
Published Feb 13, 2020 Video
Gregg Semenza received Governor's Citation and congratulations from both houses of the Maryland General Assembly for his 2019 Nobel Prize
Zhaozhu Qiu
Faculty honors
Zhaozhu Qiu named Sloan Research Fellow
Published Feb 12, 2020
Assistant professor in the departments of Physiology, Neuroscience at the School of Medicine studies an important class of membrane proteins in cells
Illustration of tangled RNA strands
Biochemistry
Scientists discover fundamental mechanism for RNA regulation
Published Feb 4, 2020
The process removes tangled strands of RNA from cells, a discovery that could help researchers understand how certain degenerative and communicable diseases develop