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Artist's rendering of Dragonfly rotorcraft in a hilly dune
Outer space
Destination: Titan
Published June 27, 2019 Video
NASA will send 'cutting-edge' APL-led mission to study Saturn's large, exotic moon
Archana Venkataraman
Faculty honors
Archana Venkataraman named to MIT list of top innovators
Published June 25, 2019
She was included in the 'MIT Technology Review' 30 Innovators Under 35 list for her pioneering work detecting the source of epileptic seizures in the brain
Gaming Disorder has been recently added to the ICD
Technology
Is gaming addiction a medical disorder?
Published June 21, 2019
Hopkins alum says the recent designation of Gaming Disorder as a medical condition is a decision that lacks nuance and may overlook important social components of gaming
Collage of an infant and biomedical device drawings
Printing in 4D
Published Summer 2019
Engineers develop origami-inspired implants that grow along with the patient over time / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Illustration of introverts and extroverts
Don't skip that cocktail party, introverts
Published Summer 2019
Study asks people with different levels of extroversion to interact in a simulated social mixer and rate their experiences afterward, shedding light on what less-extroverted people can do to increase their social confidence / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Illustration of a guitar player
New cool tools
Rock on—just not too hard
Published Summer 2019 Video
SmartGuitar prototype prevents injury by telling musicians when they exert too much force on the strings / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Mark Shelhamer in the zero-gravity rocket
Making space travel safer
Published Summer 2019 Video
As NASA prepares to send humans back to the moon and beyond, Mark Shelhamer and fellow Hopkins scientists want to ensure that future space travelers survive and thrive out there / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Illustration of brain
Banking on brain science
Published Summer 2019
In search of treatments and cures for diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, researchers need actual human tissue. Here is where they go to find it. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Ruth Kassinger
Green all over
Published Summer 2019
In 'Slime,' author Ruth Kassinger gives life-sustaining, omnipresent—and sometimes villainous—algae their long overdue star turn / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Anton Dahbura and his wife, Marlaina
Tony baseball
Published Summer 2019
Anton Dahbura has combined his love of America's pastime and computer science to develop programs that help baseball teams identify the best available athletes / Johns Hopkins Magazine