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Student-invented battlefield medical device has potential to save soldiers with deep wounds, especially at the neck, shoulder or groin.

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A relic from long before the age of supercomputers, the 169-year-old math strategy called the Jacobi iterative method is widely dismissed today as too slow to be useful. But thanks to a curious, numbers-savvy Johns Hopkins engineering student and his professor, it may soon get a new lease on life.

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Robert Johnston, a biologist at Johns Hopkins studying how developing cells randomly choose their fates, and Andrew Holland, a molecular biologist who works on how dividing cells create the correct number of centrosomes, have been named Pew scholars.

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Waiting until marriage to have babies is now “unusual” among less-educated adults close to 30 years old, sociologists have found.

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Johns Hopkins University has appointed three scholars to Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships, new faculty positions created to foster collaboration across the institution’s many divisions and to help address major world problems.

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Benjamin Langmead, assistant professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins, has won the National Science Foundation's prestigious CAREER Award, which recognizes promise and excellence in early stage scholars.

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It’s long been accepted – with little science to back it up – that people should spend roughly a third of their income on housing. As it turns out, that may be about how much a low-income family should spend to optimize children’s brainpower.

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Biomedical engineering students design a lightweight, easy-to-conceal shirt-like garment to deliver life-saving shocks to patients experiencing serious heart problems. The students say their design improves upon a wearable defibrillator system that is already in use.

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Researchers followed nearly 800 Baltimore school children for a quarter of a century and discovered that their fates were substantially determined by the economic status of the family they were born into.

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A less-well-known type of retina cell plays a more critical role in vision than previously understood.

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Although the nation is spending more on welfare than ever before, most of that money is going to better-off families rather than the very poorest, a researcher found.

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Researchers have discovered how cancer cells spread through extremely narrow three-dimensional spaces in the body, identifying a propulsion system based on water and charged particles.

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Johns Hopkins computer scientists have found a flaw in the way that secure cloud storage companies protect their customers’ data.

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By tracking brain activity when an animal stops to look around its environment, neuroscientists can mark the birth of a memory.

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Though owning a home is considered the American dream, race can influence just how sweet that dream actually is.

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Applied math and engineering students write a program to help minor league baseball schedule seasons by computer rather than with pencils, erasers, calendars and sticky notes.

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Walter White of “Breaking Bad” sneaks, lies and manipulates – to say nothing of dealing drugs and killing people. But he's also a career criminal in another sense, a Johns Hopkins University professor says: He's a really, really bad teacher.

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After a seven month, highly competitive, international search for TRIUMF’s next director, the laboratory’s Board of Management announced today that Dr. Jonathan Bagger, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor, Vice Provost, and former Interim Provost at the Johns Hopkins University, will join TRIUMF this summer.

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Despite evidence that people don’t leave impoverished, segregated areas even when offered large housing subsidies, a well-structured voucher program can help inner city residents feel comfortable enough in a more affluent area to want to stay, researchers found.

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Sifting flu-related tweets can help track the illness at the local level, not just on a national scale. researchers have found.

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A team of observational cosmologists may have found evidence that cosmic inflation occurred a fraction of a second after the Big Bang, a point predicted 18 years ago by Johns Hopkins University cosmologist and theoretical physicist Marc Kamionkowski.

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Biologists have believed that cancers cells spread through the body in a slow, aimless fashion, resembling a drunk who can't walk three steps in a straight line. They now know that's true in a flat petri dish, but not in the three-dimensional space of an actual body.

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Tim Mueller, a Johns Hopkins University assistant professor of materials science and engineering, has been selected by the National Science Foundation to receive its prestigious CAREER Award, which recognizes the highest level of excellence and promise in early-stage scholars.

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Most preschoolers and kindergarteners, or children between 4 and 6, can do basic algebra naturally using their Approximate Number Sense.

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Juggling may seem like mere entertainment, but a study led by Johns Hopkins engineers used this circus skill to gather critical clues about how vision and the sense of touch help control the way humans and animals move their limbs in a repetitive way, such as in running. The findings eventually may aid in the treatment of people with neurological diseases and could lead to prosthetic limbs and robots that move more efficiently.

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Minimizing a person’s sight for as little as a week may help improve the brain’s ability to process hearing.

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They say sex sells, but when it comes to Super Bowl ads, a researcher begs to differ. He says it's all about the storytelling. Shakespeare's kind of storytelling.

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Caffeine is the energy boost of choice for millions. Now, however, researchers have found another use for the stimulant: memory enhancer.

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Researchers are building a digital library of children's MRI brain scans. The goal is to give physicians a Google-like search system that will enhance the way they diagnose and treat young patients with brain disorders.

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Introducing testosterone in select areas of a male canary’s brain can affect its ability to successfully attract and mate with a female through birdsong. These findings could shed light on how testosterone acts in the human brain to regulate speech or help explain how anabolic steroids affect human behaviors.

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The “social safety net” expanded to catch many Americans during the economic downturn and welfare programs "did their job and made a difference," an economist has found.

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The Maryland Academy of Sciences and the Maryland Science Center will present the 2013 Annual Outstanding Young Scientist award to astrophysicist Jason S. Kalirai.

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A biomedical engineering student team that devised a two-part system to improve the way life-saving shocks are delivered to hearts has won the undergraduate division of the national Collegiate Inventors Competition. In the graduate-level competition, a Johns Hopkins medical student received third-place honors.

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Engineers and cardiology experts have teamed up to develop a fingernail-sized biosensor that could alert doctors when serious brain injury occurs during heart surgery.

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The puzzling, apparently wasteful habit of some animals to exert force in the direction opposite of where they want to go actually has an important purpose: to increase both stability and maneuverability.

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A team of scientists at The Johns Hopkins University has received a grant for $9.5 million over five years to develop, build and maintain large-scale data sets that will allow for greater access and better usability of the information for the science community.

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The NSF has awarded Johns Hopkins $3 million to build a program that will determine the effect of repeated hurricanes and heat waves on the Mid-Atlantic region and suggest ways to improve the region’s ability to withstand them.

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Johns Hopkins University physicists are celebrating the roles they played in the confirmation of the Higgs boson, the so-called “God particle” predicted almost 50 years ago by Peter Higgs and Francois Englert, co-winners of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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Two Johns Hopkins faculty members have been chosen to receive prestigious National Institutes of Health grants allocated for biomedical research projects that face significant challenges but could lead to major health care payoffs.

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When a beating heart slips into an irregular, rhythm, the treatment is electric current from a pacemaker or defibrillator. But the electricity itself can cause pain, tissue damage and other side-effects. Now, researchers want to replace jolts with a gentler remedy: light.

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Sympathetic neurons “cross-talk” -- or engage in reciprocal signaling -- with the tissues they connect to. And when they don't, there's trouble.

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Earthquakes never occur when you need one, so a team led by Johns Hopkins structural engineers is shaking up a building themselves in the name of science and safety. Using massive moving platforms and an array of sensors and cameras, the researchers are trying to find out how well a two-story building made of cold-formed steel can stand up to a lab-generated Southern California quake.

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Medtronic, one of the world’s largest medical technology companies, has entered into an innovative partnership with The Johns Hopkins University, agreeing to provide $200,000 a year for up to three years and skilled mentoring to help biomedical engineering students design new healthcare solutions for underserved patients in developing countries.

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Scientists in the fast-growing field of computational genomics are getting lots of data but lack the computer power needed to analyze it quickly.

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Johns Hopkins graduate students, aiming to make many second breast cancer surgeries unnecessary, design a device to make pathology exams possible while the patient is still in the operating room for her first lumpectomy.

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Johns Hopkins student-built devices—a blood clot detection system and a concealable, hands-free breast pump—have won two of the top three awards in a national contest that recognizes innovative biomedical engineering designs that have high commercial potential and social impact.

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Astrophysicists using high-powered computer simulations demonstrate that gas spiraling toward a black hole inevitably results in X-ray emissions.

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Bubbles in a champagne glass may add a festive fizz, but microscopic bubbles that form in metallic glass can signal serious trouble. That’s why researchers used computer simulations to study how these bubbles form and expand.