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Released: 28-Jan-2020 3:00 PM EST
What’s in Your Water?
 Johns Hopkins University

Mixing drinking water with chlorine, the United States’ most common method of disinfecting drinking water, creates previously unidentified toxic byproducts, says  Carsten Prasse from Johns Hopkins University and his collaborators from the University of California, Berkeley and Switzerland.

Released: 8-Jan-2020 11:00 AM EST
Report Builds Framework For Journalists to Examine ‘Digital Political Ethics’ For Online Campaign Ads
 Johns Hopkins University

Online political advertising is not regulated by the federal government the way television ads are. What standards can journalists use when examining social media campaigning? Johns Hopkins and three other universities have developed a set of 12 recommendations based around 4 ethical principles that reporters can use when judging online campaign strategies.

Released: 18-Dec-2019 1:00 PM EST
New Space Image Reveals a Cosmic 'Candy Cane'
 Johns Hopkins University

Deep in our Milky Way galaxy’s center, a candy cane emerges as the centerpiece of a new, colorful composite image from a NASA camera, just in time for the holidays.

6-Dec-2019 8:50 AM EST
New Ultra-Miniaturized Scope Less Invasive, Produces Higher Quality Images
 Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins engineers have created a new lens-free ultra-miniaturized endoscope, the size of a few human hairs in width, that is less bulky and can produce higher quality images.

7-Oct-2019 11:05 AM EDT
Johns Hopkins Researchers Discover Superconducting Material That Could Someday Power Quantum Computer
 Johns Hopkins University

Quantum computers with the ability to perform complex calculations, encrypt data more securely and more quickly predict the spread of viruses, may be within closer reach thanks to a new discovery by Johns Hopkins researchers.

16-Aug-2019 1:45 PM EDT
Don’t Miss a Beat: Computer Simulations May Treat Most Common Heart Rhythm Disorder
 Johns Hopkins University

Scientists at Johns Hopkins have successfully created personalized digital replicas of the upper chambers of the heart and used them to guide the precise treatment of patients suffering from persistent irregular heartbeats. These simulations accurately identified where clinicians need to destroy tissue to restore the heart’s normal rhythm.

Released: 7-Aug-2019 4:05 PM EDT
Dark Matter May Be Older Than The Big Bang, Study Suggests
 Johns Hopkins University

Dark matter, which researchers believe make up about 80% of the universe’s mass, is one of the most elusive mysteries in modern physics. What exactly it is and how it came to be is a mystery, but a new Johns Hopkins University study now suggests that dark matter may have existed before the Big Bang.

5-Aug-2019 10:30 AM EDT
A Rocky Relationship: 2.5 Billion Years of Earth’s Continents Breaking Up and Getting Back Together
 Johns Hopkins University

A new study of rocks that formed billions of years ago lends fresh insight into how Earth’s plate tectonics, or the movement of large pieces of Earth’s outer shell, evolved over the planet’s 4.56-billion-year history.

Released: 5-Aug-2019 9:50 AM EDT
JHU Study Explains How Some Older Brains Decline Before People Realize It
 Johns Hopkins University

Some older adults without noticeable cognitive problems have a harder time than younger people in separating irrelevant information from what they need to know at a given time, and a new Johns Hopkins University study could explain why.

Released: 15-Jul-2019 9:00 AM EDT
Cancer Tissue-Freezing Approach May Help More Breast Cancer Patients in Lower Income Countries
 Johns Hopkins University

A new reusable device created by the Johns Hopkins University can help women with breast cancer in lower income countries by using carbon dioxide, a widely available and affordable gas, to power a cancer tissue-freezing probe instead of industry-standard argon.



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