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Science+Technology

Undergraduate research

Student team wins $5K at Collegiate Inventors Competition

Published Oct 31, 2019

Team Relavo wins runner-up prize for device designed to reduce infection rates during at-home kidney dialysis

Biomedical engineering

Student engineers take on common dialysis complication

Published Oct 29, 2019

Student startup Relavo is among the finalists at the National Collegiate Inventors Competition

Brain science

Babies understand counting years earlier than believed

Published Oct 24, 2019

Babies who are years away from being able to say 'one,' 'two,' and 'three' actually already have a sense of what counting means, study finds

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine announces new partnership to advance precision medicine

Published Oct 22, 2019

Collaboration between the School of Medicine, Bloomberg Philanthropies, and the New York Stem Cell Foundation Research Institute will provide unmatched scope of resources and expertise

Kristopher Bell presents at Diversity and Inclusion Conference

Diversity+Inclusion

How our brains process trauma, perpetuate bias

Published Oct 22, 2019

APL's Kristopher Bell discusses how bias and microaggressions are processed in the brain and how we can use that knowledge to support a culture of inclusion

Energy

A future fueled by wind energy requires interdisciplinary approach

Published Oct 18, 2019

Mechanical engineer Charles Meneveau co-authors report outlining major obstacles and solutions for optimizing wind energy

Researchers from APL work on their improved lithium-ion battery

Science+Technology

A lithium-ion battery that won't catch fire

Published Oct 17, 2019

Building on previous work, researchers at APL appear to have corrected the ubiquitous energy source's most significant safety hazard—its combustibility