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Armchair archaeologists can witness a dig at an ancient Egyptian temple from the comfort of their home computers.

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The Norwalk virus that has disrupted recent cruise ship voyages is one of several headline-making germs cataloged by science writer and writing professor Wayne Biddle in "A Field Guide to Germs."

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Americans are both hopeful and fearful about the rapidly advancing power of scientists to manipulate human reproduction, a new survey shows.

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In a new indoor tank filled with almost 43,000 gallons of water, engineers are developing and testing computer control systems to serve as the "brains" for some of the world's leading deep-sea robotic exploration vehicles.

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Researchers have discovered a biochemical "clock" that appears to play a crucial role in the way information is sent from the surface of a cell to its nucleus. These messages can cause the cell to thrive or commit suicide, and manipulating them could lead to new treatments for cancer and other diseases.

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Combining old-fashioned metal-working techniques with modern nanotechnology, engineers have produced a form of pure copper six times stronger than normal, with no significant loss of ductility.

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Astronomers have identified the vivid scar of a cosmic catastrophe: a blue arc thousands of light years long produced when a galaxy pulled in a smaller satellite galaxy and tore it apart.

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Riccardo Giacconi, a co-recipient of this year's Nobel Prize in physics, is a research professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department at the Johns Hopkins University.

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Halloween story idea: Why did 15th century theologians come up with the idea of witchcraft, encourage people to believe in it and accuse women (and men) of being witches? To get God off the hook for infant mortality, the plague and crop disasters and to explain how a world created by a watchful and benevolent God could be such a mess.

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Political scientist and constitutional law specialist Joel Grossman of Johns Hopkins University is available to comment on the new Supreme Court term.

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Johns Hopkins political scientists blame declining voter turnout on politicians who increasingly marginalize the role of the citizen in government; another JHU political scientist says the debate on Iraq is tipping a close battle for control of Congress toward the GOP.

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A political scientist's study of the key economic crises of the 20th century shows that economic policymaking is neither an art nor a science so much as a great struggle between competing political ideas.

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A free computer program developed by a Johns Hopkins civil engineering researcher allows designers of thin-walled structures, including buildings and bridges, to test their stability and safety before a single beam is put into place.

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The director of the Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute is available to speak with reporters planning Sept. 11 coverage. He can discuss the fragility of our information technology infrastructure and how Sept. 11 raised public awareness of the vulnerabilities.

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An offering of experts from The Johns Hopkins University in public health, biodefense, security and international studies, constitutional law, pediatric nursing and other fields.

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Researchers have caused stem cells from adult goats to grow into tissue that resembles cartilage, a key step toward creating a minimally invasive procedure that may one day be used to repair injured knees, noses and other body parts.

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An offering of K-12 education experts from Johns Hopkins University for back-to-school stories.

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In the past two decades, the private sector in China has created more than 30 million new businesses, a stunning feat given that most entrepreneurs have no access to financing from state-sanctioned banks. A Johns Hopkins political scientist explains how China's small businesses have flourished in the absence of capital.

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Genetic differences between the HIV prevalent in Africa and the subtype dominant in the United States and Western Europe appear to amplify the effects of drug-resistant mutations in the African strains.

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Betsy Bryan, chair of the Johns Hopkins University Department of Near Eastern Studies, is the guest curator of "The Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt," the new exhibit at the National Gallery of Art. Bryan is available for interviews.

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Using two motors, speech-recognition software and an exo-skeleton inspired by science fiction, three Johns Hopkins University undergraduates have built a muscle enhancement device to help a disabled man grasp and lift a cup, a book and other household items.

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With support from a grieving father, two Johns Hopkins engineering undergrads have designed and fabricated a new whitewater recreation helmet to better protect rafters and kayakers from life-threatening head injuries.

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Two-adult families are on the rise in low-income neighborhoods, but that may not be the best news for the children in some of those families.

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With the High Court of Justice in Israel recently ordering the government to defend its policy of targeted killings of suspected terrorists, a closer examination of this controversial policy is important, a Johns Hopkins professor says.

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By using an ultra-powerful laser to set off energy bursts lasting a tiny fraction of a second, scientists may soon be able to see -- and perhaps control -- what happens in the heart of an atom, its nucleus.

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Adding some career and technical education classes to a high school students schedule may reduce his risk of dropping out, new research shows.

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For at least one common bird, mating songs are more than just empty amorous enticement. Scientists have found that male starlings' singing ability is strong evidence of the health of their immune systems and, thus, their suitability as breeding partners.

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Taking just two months to dash through a project once anticipated to need a year or more, a team has created a way to search different astronomy databases seamlessly and simultaneously via the World Wide Web.

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Researchers unveil two new tools to aid in the investigation of prescription drug pollution, caused when pharmaceuticals do not disappear harmlessly into the digestive system, but instead make their way into the environment.

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Public housing projects are commonly regarded as breeding grounds for drugs and crime, not positive places in which to grow up. But a study shows that poor children who spent at least some times in public housing were better off than had they not lived there.

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Working mothers who qualify for limited welfare benefits including cash payments, health insurance, food stamps and low-cost child care are in a better position to provide for their families than women who make more than twice as much but do not collect benefits.

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A civility expert at Johns Hopkins and author of the new book, "Choosing Civility: The Twenty-five Rules of Considerate Conduct," is available to comment on a just-released survey on the perceived decline in American civility.

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Tip sheet on presentations by Johns Hopkins researchers at the American Educational Research Association meeeting April 1-5 in New Orleans.

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An island near the North Pole once was covered by a forest of redwood-like trees. How? New research shows part of the answer is a strange prehistoric weather pattern.

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A Johns Hopkins junior has conducted original research that adds to scientists' understanding of the special circumstances under which nerve cells in the central nervous system may be able to regrow damaged branches.

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P.M. Forni's new book, "Choosing Civility: The Twenty-five Rules of Considerate Conduct," is intended to help readers rediscover time-honored practices that are often overlooked in our fast-paced and stressful lives.

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The January announcement by Johns Hopkins astronomers that they had determined the "color of the universe" turned out to be wrong. They have now corrected it, having learned their original calculation was biased by some computer software they used.

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The UN will implement a new approach to treating nonprofit organizations in economic statistics. Developed with researchers at Johns Hopkins, the plan will help policymakers more accurately assess the size and importance of the nonprofit sector.

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A Johns Hopkins senior from Cherry Hill, N.J., has found potentially decisive evidence in a debate about the identity of one of the first organisms to make the epochal leap from the sea to dry land approximately 400 million years ago.

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A moribund orbiting observatory that some had given up for dead has returned to life thanks to the ingenuity of scientists and engineers who worked around the clock to give the satellite a new guidance system without ever actually touching it.

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An undergrad biomedical engineering major has been breeding mutant fruit flies and studying their offspring to help find a gene responsible for thwarting the bug's development. Learning how fruit fly embryos create salivary glands could shed light on the development of human organs.

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A Johns Hopkins senior is analyzing DNA from children suffering from a rare but devastating disease that kills more than half of its victims before their second birthday.

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A scholar's examination of centuries-old texts leads him to conclude that rise of the belief in witchcraft was really an indirect effort to prove the existence of God.

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NASA's fourth servicing mission for the Hubble Space Telescope, scheduled to lift off Feb. 28, will give the observatory upgrades that include the Advanced Camera for Surveys, a package that will increase Hubble's already formidable capacity for discovery tenfold.

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A Johns Hopkins political scientist and author of a recent book on the history of U.S. farm subsidies and farm policy is available to discuss the Senate debate on the farm bill. Streaming audio of a discussion of his book is also available online.

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As Congress prepares to debate re-authorization of the 1996 welfare reform law, Johns Hopkins researchers are available to put the welfare reform experiment into perspective. This list of experts covers areas such as the relationship between welfare benefits and out-of-wedlock childbearing, housing issues, the effects of welfare reform on families and efforts to help the hardest to employ get jobs and build skills.

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A Johns Hopkins economist will be able to continue his groundbreaking study of the relationship between welfare and out-of-wedlock child bearing with a prestigious MERIT grant from the National Institutes of Health.

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Astronomers at The Johns Hopkins University have produced a unique new insight into the nature of existence: They've determined the color of the universe. The average color of the universe: pretty close to pale turqoise, although a little bit greener.

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An exploding star may have destroyed part of Earth's protective ozone layer 2 million years ago, devastating some forms of ancient marine life, according to a new theory.

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A new type of contraceptive gel also designed to protect against sexually transmitted infections will be the first of its kind to begin clinical efficacy trials through the NIH Contraceptive Clinical Trials Network.