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Chao He
Planetary science
Planets with oxygen don't necessarily have life
Published Dec 17, 2018
In simulations of planetary atmospheres, researchers successfully create both organic compounds and oxygen, absent of life
Scientist works with a petri dish and pipette
Research
Hopkins again leads U.S. universities in R&D spending
Published Dec 17, 2018
JHU spent a record $2.562B in fiscal year 2017, leading all U.S. universities in research spending for the 39th year in a row
Atmosphere evaporates off of a planet
Physics+Astronomy
Distant planet vanishing at record speed
Published Dec 13, 2018
Hubble's discovery of a rare Neptune-sized exoplanet 96 light-years away will help astronomers understand how planets evolve
Nilabh Shastri
Pioneering immunologist joins Hopkins faculty
Published Dec 12, 2018
Nilabh Shastri becomes university's 38th Bloomberg Distinguished Professor after spending past 30 years pursuing immune surveillance research at UC Berkeley
Riccardo Giacconi
In memoriam
Visionary astrophysicist Riccardo Giacconi dies at 87
Published Dec 12, 2018
He joined the Hopkins faculty in 1981, was a co-recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in physics
Students participate in mechanical engineering design competition
Mechanical engineering
An on-ramp to creative design
Published Dec 11, 2018
First-year mechanical engineering students take their design skills for a spin in annual competition
Illustration of an octopus in a tank
IDEA
Making an octopus cuddly
Published Winter 2018
Study finds that humans and octopuses have a molecular mechanism in the brain that binds to MDMA—revealing evolutionary links between the two species / Johns Hopkins Magazine
On and off switch
cybersecurity
Grid locked
Published Winter 2018
Johns Hopkins computer scientists develop a tool to protect power grids from cyberattacks / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Mars
Space
IDing Mars' dust
Published Winter 2018
Planetary scientists believe they've identified the origin of the powdery dust on Mars: a formation that could be the largest known volcanic deposit in the solar system / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Illustration of knifefish
New cool tools
Do researchers dream of electric fish?
Published Winter 2018
Professor Noah Cowan and his team devise a way to study the evasive knifefish / Johns Hopkins Magazine