In a collaboration blending biology and robotics, researchers are unraveling the circuitry in an eel's spinal cord to help develop a microchip implant that may someday help paralyzed people walk again.
The rising popularity of shark cartilage extract as an anti-cancer treatment is a triumph of marketing and pseudoscience over reason, with a tragic fallout for both sharks and humans, a biologist says.
Most parents view their child's development -- from those newborn gurgles to maturation into a thinking, speaking human being -- as a marvelous, ever-unfolding mystery. At the new Laboratory for Child Development at Johns Hopkins, those milestones are fodder for research.
Improving significantly on an early prototype, researchers have found a new way to join two unrelated proteins to create a molecular switch, a nanoscale "device" in which one biochemical partner controls the activity of the other.
In the wake of last week's NBA player-fan brawl, the co-founder of the Johns Hopkins Civility Project can discuss incivility in American society.
A Johns Hopkins graduate student may have solved a problem that has been baffling marine biologists and paleontologists: Why do coral reefs disappear from the fossil record during the beginning of the Cretaceous period only to reappear after its end 35 million years ago?
It doesn't take a miracle to get through the season's holiday parties with grace and good cheer. P.M. Forni, co-founder of the Johns Hopkins Civility Project, offers tips for a civil celebration of the winter holidays.
As Election Day looms, many voters may be making their choice based on Iraq or some other issue. But if they are interested in boosting their 401(k) performance, they might take a second look at John Kerry, a Johns Hopkins economist says in an op-ed.
On rare occasions, the anti-tachycardia pulses from implanted defibrillators produce the wrong effect: They trigger an even faster and more dangerous heartbeat. Johns Hopkins engineers may have figured out why.
New findings explaining the complicated process by which the "energy substations" of human cells split apart and recombine may lay the groundwork for new treatment approaches to a wide range of diseases, including some cancers and neurodegenerative diseases.
More American couples are living together, but they don't see cohabitation as a replacement for marriage and it is not at all clear that the institution is fading away, a sociologist says.
On Oct.9, 1604, sky watchers were startled by the sudden appearance in the western sky of a "new star" which rivaled the brilliance of the nearby planets. Astronomers are using NASA's three Great Observatories to unravel still-mysterious aspects of the remains of this supernova.
U.S. nonprofit organizations are being especially hard hit by escalating health benefit costs, according to a new report.
Johns Hopkins University researchers have received nearly $1 million from the NSF to produce and begin testing a revised course of study for undergraduate engineering students with a goal of attracting more women and minorities to the field -- and retaining them once they begin their studies.
With the opening of the U.S. Supreme Court's session Monday, Oct. 4, you may need background and historical context in addition to expert opinion on current cases and issues being considered.
A team including mathematicians at The Johns Hopkins University is tackling a 200-year-old question: How does the shape of drums influence the frequency and geometry of their vibrations when they are struck?
An analysis of data from the Aug.15 referendum in Venezuela to recall President Hugo Chávez indicates that certain forms of computer fraud were unlikely to have occurred during the electronic voting process.
Building on an idea developed by medicinal chemists, researchers have devised a new mathematical tool that accurately predicts how long certain pollutants -- including pesticides and pharmaceuticals -- will remain in soil.
Harmful contaminants often taint drinking water drawn directly from a river, but a low-cost natural filter may lie just beyond the banks. Researchers say the soil alongside a river can remove dangerous microbes and organic material as water flows through it.
A Johns Hopkins University says the current record high price of oil could be lowered if President George W. Bush did what his father did a dozen years ago -- release oil from the nation's strategic reserves.
Researchers have developed molecules that have the potential to catalyze a wide variety of chemical reactions, including -"“ but not limited to -"“ the clean-up of common but quite dangerous groundwater pollutants called organohalides.
Using an ancient Chinese folk remedy as a model, researchers have designed several new compounds that, in early testing, promise to be both safer and more effective in fighting malaria and some forms of cancer than the "gold standard" drug treatments.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have developed compounds called nitroxyl precursors that, in early studies, seem to protect the cardiovascular system from further damage and restore function after heart failure.
Back-to-school story ideas and K-12 education experts from The Johns Hopkins University.
Johns Hopkins experts are available to comment on the politics of the presidential election campaign, the issues under debate and the implications of either a Republican or Democratic victory.
An independent evaluation has given high marks to the Talent Development high school reform model and, by extension, other comprehensive school reform programs.
Civility expert P.M. Forni offers suggestions for avoiding angry confrontations in election-year political discussions.
A rare glimpse back in time into the universe's early evolution has revealed something startling: mature, fully formed galaxies where scientists expected to discover little more than infants.
About 20 percent of the nation's largest high schools are so-called "dropout factories," producing senior classes that are at least 60 percent smaller than the freshmen classes of four years earlier.
Science historian Lawrence Principe has won the first Francis Bacon Award for his work on the history of early modern alchemy and chemistry.
NASA's Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) satellite will reach a major milestone on Thursday, June 24, 2004 "“ the five-year anniversary of its launch atop a Delta-II rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida.
Four undergraduate engineering students have designed and built a remote-controlled robotic vehicle to find deadly land mines in rugged terrain and mark their location with a spray of paint.
Researchers have for the first time detected molecular nitrogen in interstellar space, giving them their first detailed look into how the universe's fifth most-abundant element behaves in an environment outside the Solar System.
A creative new observation of a star situated behind the Veil Nebula may alter the way astronomers think about this important supernova remnant.
When a car crash occurs, people with osteoporosis and other brittle bone disorders often suffer more serious injuries. To better protect these "fragile" motorists, three engineering students have devised a harness and vest system that significantly reduced impact forces when tested on a high-tech crash dummy.
Gifted education programs offered outside traditional school walls, long popular with suburban middle class families, are now playing a greater role in the academic success for minority low- and modest-income students.
Actor and comedian Bill Cosby will address graduates from the schools of Arts and Sciences and Engineering on May 20. Noteworthy speakers at other commencement events are Nicholas Burns, US ambassador to NATO, and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Corgliano.
Grace Brush, a scientist known for her work on the ecological history of the Chesapeake Bay, will receive the Mathias Medal in recognition of the impact of her work on policies affecting the bay. She is only the fourth person to receive the medal since it was established in 1990.
Education researchers from the Center for Social Organization of Schools at The Johns Hopkins University will present the results of their latest studies at the American Educational Research Association's annual meeting, April 12-16 in San Diego.
An expert on Hispanic voters is available to discuss the role of Hispanics in the 2004 presidential election and the efforts that candidates, parties, and special interests are making to reach them.
Researchers have created a class of artificial proteins that can assemble themselves into a gel and encourage the growth of selected cell types. This biomaterial is expected to help scientists who are developing new ways to repair injured or diseased body parts.
An undergraduate has built a new type of microchip that can move and isolate DNA and protein molecules. By linking the chip with analysis equipment, a user could identify medical ailments, monitor a patient's health or detect biohazards before they spread.
A junior from Fairfax, Va., is part of a team of archaelogists digging at the Precinct of the Goddess Mut in Luxor, Egypt, where she contributed to the ongoing work to determine what the temple and its surrounding area looked like long ago.
Two undergraduate biomedical engineering students at Johns Hopkins are mapping the interaction of molecules within a cardiac cell, describing microscopic movements that could be critical for maintaining a healthy heartbeat.
An undergraduate is playing an important role in solving the mysteries surrounding tiny hair cells in the inner ear that help humans distinguish between high-frequency sounds, an ability that is critical for understanding speech.
A daylong symposium on the state of Africana studies will bring leaders in the field to The Johns Hopkins University on Friday, March 5.
A sociologist who studies marriage rebuts the claim that activist judges are redefining marriage. "It's heterosexual America, which has changed the meaning of marriage from a focus on children to a focus on intimacy," Andrew Cherlin says.
Education reporters are welcome to meet new sources and find story ideas at the "Leadership Development Conference on School, Family and Community Partnerships," led by researchers from The Johns Hopkins University.
A new report analyzing more than three decades of research finds that bilingual education programs produce higher levels of student achievement in reading than English-only approaches.
A White House fact sheet on President Bush's State of the Union address education proposals cites research from Johns Hopkins University on "Re-conceptualizing Extra-Help for High School Students in a High Standards Era." Details on that report and information on how to contact the authors is available.
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