A web-based study found that our inborn “number sense” improves during school years, declines during old age, and remains linked throughout the entire lifespan to our ability in formal mathematics.
A single protein molecule may hold the key to turning cardiac stem cells into blood vessels or muscle tissue, a finding that may lead to better ways to treat heart attack patients.
In time for the U.S. Olympic Trials, engineers settle the argument over which swim stroke technique -- deep catch or sculling -- is faster.
Engineers have found an easy way to sort microscopic particles and bits of biological matter, including circulating tumor cells.
An unofficial summer school course in archaeology is just a hyperlink away at "Hopkins in Egypt Today," a free educational website showing a dig in progress throughout June.
Bernard T. “Bernie” Ferrari, an accomplished corporate strategist and management consultant to Fortune 50 companies, has been named the next dean of The Johns Hopkins University’s Carey Business School.
This month, thousands of college graduates are walking across the stage to shake hands, smile for the camera, and pick up their diplomas. Many of those newly minted American college graduates are moving out of their dorm rooms and back into their childhood bedrooms. Johns Hopkins University sociologist Katherine Newman estimates that about 85 percent of today’s college students will return home to live at some point after they graduate, based on her research for her latest book, The Accordion Family: Boomerang Kids, Anxious Parents, and the Private Toll of Global Competition (Beacon Press, January 2012).
A small pilot study found higher levels of toxic mercury in dolphins downwind of power plants than in captive dolphins.
Three experts at Johns Hopkins can speak about how the birth rate among minority groups now exceeds the birth rate among whites.
Research suggests a new approach to improving memory and interrupting disease progression in patients with a form of cognitive impairment that often leads to full-blown Alzheimer’s disease.
Engineers have discovered previously unknown properties of a common computer memory material, paving the way for new memory drives, movie discs and computer systems that absorb data more quickly, last longer and allow far more capacity than current data storage media.
Astronomers have gathered the most direct evidence yet of a supermassive black hole shredding a star that wandered too close.
The Johns Hopkins University has won an award worth up to $90 million from the U.S. Army to help the Army develop new lightweight materials to better protect soldiers and vehicles.
A proposal led by a Johns Hopkins University astrophysicist has been selected by NASA as part of a science instrument upgrade to the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA).
Biomedical engineers have devised seizure detection software to significantly cut the number of unneeded electrical pulses an epilepsy patient receives from brain implants.
Johns Hopkins University sociologist Katherine Newman is available to speak with reporters covering yesterday's deadly shooting incident at Oikos University in Oakland, Calif.
It seems that “Lucy” was not the only hominin on the block in northern Africa about 3 million years ago.
Reporters who are looking for an expert perspective on next week's Supreme Court debate about the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act should consider Joel Grossman, a professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University and an adjunct professor of law at the University of Maryland School of Law.
The political beliefs of corporate CEOs strongly influence the tax-avoidance strategies of the firms they run, and those firms with Republican chief executive officers show a significantly higher level of tax avoidance than do companies with CEOs of no obvious political preference
Sam Palmisano, chairman of the board of IBM and chair of IBM’s executive committee, will return this spring to his alma mater, the Johns Hopkins University, as the featured speaker at the university-wide commencement ceremony on Thursday, May 24. A former university trustee, Palmisano will also receive an honorary degree of doctor of humane letters during the ceremony, which is for graduates from all divisions and campuses.
Johns Hopkins University sociologist Katherine Newman is available to speak with reporters covering yesterday's deadly shooting incident at Chardon High School in Ohio.
Should the disputed Falkland Islands be returned to Argentina? In his latest article for Globe Asia, titled “The Falklands and other dangerous disputed territories – a market solution,” Steve Hanke, a professor of applied economics at The Johns Hopkins University, writes that a market solution could help Britain and Argentina avoid another war.
By figuring out how butterflies flutter among flowers with amazing grace and agility, researchers hope to help build small airborne robots that can mimic those maneuvers.
Johns Hopkins Carey Business School Associate Professor Douglas Hough is available to reporters to discuss the economics of health care, including behavioral economics within the health care industry.
Johns Hopkins University environmental engineer Edward J. Bouwer is available to speak to reporters wondering what could happen to the gasoline and oil on board the Costa Concordia if fuel starts to leak from the wrecked cruise ship.
For the sake of science, visitors to a new exhibition get to break the cardinal rule of museum-going: Please don’t touch.
The Federal Reserve Board has appointed Johns Hopkins University Professor Jon Faust as special adviser in the Office of Board Members, effective Tuesday, Jan. 17.
For stories about the 2012 presidential election and the issues discussed along the campaign trail, consider the following sources from The Johns Hopkins University.
Time can stand still, or at least look the same from year to year, two calendar reform advocates say.
A significant number of American teenagers graduate from high school unprepared to take their next big steps toward adulthood, according to a study by researchers at The Johns Hopkins University and the University of Arizona’s Center for the Study of Higher Education.
The American social hierarchy places people of mixed-race ancestry below whites but above blacks, while additional social stratifications along color lines are simultaneously taking place within the nation's multiracial groups, according to a Johns Hopkins University sociologist's study of U.S. Census data.
Babies may not remember what they saw, but they remember that they saw something.
Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a jelly-like material and wound treatment method that, in early experiments on skin damaged by severe burns, appeared to regenerate healthy, scar-free tissue.
Johns Hopkins engineers, recognized as experts in medical robotics, have turned their attention skyward to help NASA with a space dilemma: How can the agency fix valuable satellites that are breaking down or running out of fuel?
Packaging sells the product. But the same persuasive packaging that can lead consumers to buy a particular product can also cause them to use less of it once they take it home, thus reducing long-term sales.
Efforts to reduce the flow of fertilizers, animal waste and other pollutants into the Chesapeake Bay appear to be giving a boost to the bay’s health.
The brain was built for cooperative activity, whether it be dancing on a TV reality show, building a skyscraper or working in an office.
Any way you slice it, bread with critical nutrients could help combat severe malnutrition in impoverished regions. That is the goal of a group of Johns Hopkins undergraduate students who are enhancing common yeast so that it produces bread that yields Vitamin A. .
Katherine S. Newman, a sociologist at Johns Hopkins University and dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, is available to speak to reporters about how sales taxes, income taxes, and regressive tax plans impact American families of all income levels.
Barry Blumenfeld, an experimental physicist at Johns Hopkins, can discuss the report of an experiment in which neutrinos were reported traveling faster than the speed of light (thereby contradicting Einstein’s theory of relativity).
Researchers have devised a protein “switch” that instructs cancer cells to produce their own anti-cancer medication.
A digital dumping ground lies inside most computers, a wasteland where old, rarely used and unneeded files pile up. Such data can deplete precious storage space, bog down the system’s efficiency and sap its energy. What;s the best approach to cleaning up the mess?
Two Johns Hopkins engineers are available to discuss the impact of Hurricane Irene.
Reporters may want to consider some of the following Johns Hopkins University scholars as potential sources for stories about how the world has changed 10 years after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
We accept that some people are born with a talent for music or art or athletics. But what about mathematics? Do some of us just arrive in the world with better math skills than others?
People who are socially skilled – who are adept at metaphorically putting themselves in someone else’s shoes – generally are also more proficient when it comes to spatial skills.
Cells that were thought to be identical and responsible both for setting the body’s circadian rhythm and for the pupil’s reaction to light and darkness, are actually two different cells, each responsible for one of those tasks.
An existing anti-seizure drug improves memory and brain function in adults with a form of cognitive impairment that often leads to full-blown Alzheimer's disease, a Johns Hopkins University study has found.
Computer scientists sift 2 billion tweets for information on where people are sick, what ails them, and what they're doing about it.
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