A towering 3,000-pound satellite that will test the Big Bang theory and collect the most complete observations yet of the Milky Way's star-making machinery will launch on Wednesday, June 23, from Cape Canaveral Air Station in Florida.
Exactly 300 years after Guillaume Amontons produced the classic laws of friction, physicists have explained why Amontons' equations explain static friction so precisely.
Three undergraduate engineers at Johns Hopkins have invented a device to help the Army test the combat-durability of critical electronic and mechanical parts.
Media advisory: Sandra Newman of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies has edited a new book on the interrelationship of assisted housing policy and welfare reform. She is available for interviews on the issue.
The expected launch in June of the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer is more than a science story. It's a story of 20 years of curiousity, ingenuity and perserverance.
A pioneering view of the internal structure of RNA has been captured by an interdisciplinary team of scientists at Johns Hopkins.
Inspired by roller coaster cars, two Johns Hopkins undergrads have designed and tested a restraining bar to protect children in school bus crashes.
Among the Johns Hopkins seniors who graduate May 27, there are some who have overcome far more than the academic challenge of college. For four students, their diplomas symbolize a resolve to reach this day, no matter how grueling the path.
Presidential candidate and senator John McCain, R-Ariz., will speak to graduating seniors at Johns Hopkins at their May 27 commencement.
It is the day after the Preakness Stakes. Another crowd of 90,000 has left behind mounds of beer cans, chicken legs and tip sheets. It's time for the PhD trash pickers from Johns Hopkins to go to work to save the rainforests.
Scientists have found that the hormone melatonin is a critical regulator of brain plasticity in birds, controlling mating-related song bursts and fine-tuning the profound effects of testosterone. Now the question is: Does it have a similar effect on humans?
To build a better jet engine, Johns Hopkins University engineer Kevin Hemker believes you have to start small.
Among the independent research projects pursued this year by Johns Hopkins engineering undergraduates are the construction of a self-navigating submarine, testing of a potential Alzheimer's treatment and a process for gene therapy, and constructing a digital model of the heart.
A space telescope designed to sort through cosmic chemical muck and star-making stew will begin scouring for the fossil record of the origins of the universe when it is launched from Cape Canaveral in a few weeks.
A Johns Hopkins electrical engineer has developed a robotic vision system on a microchip, an alternative to the conventional approach that allows a moving robot to react to obstacles much more quickly.
A new book by an Johns Hopkins astronomer seeks to bring coherence to the fragmented body of knowledge on the objects now known as active galactic nuclei.
A new study finds that financial circumstances don't explain why many high-achieving, low-income students never go to college. The real culprit: inadequate advice from counselors, teachers and other adults.
A school reform model based on the "Cultural Literacy" ideas of E.D. Hirsch fares well in its first comprehensive, nationwide evaluation.
Johns Hopkins University announces program offering $10,000 research grants to undergraduates, enabling students to get hands-on experience in demanding, graduate-level research projects.
New research, with "Mama" and "Dada," determines that children begin to comprehend the meaning of language as early as 6 months of age.
Johns Hopkins engineers have developed a better way to detect land mines from the air, before the troops hit the beach or minesweeping teams move in to clear a former battle zone.
Ethics professors lead 2-day conference at Johns Hopkins University, working with police on applying ethics to daily police decisionmaking
A Johns Hopkins University anthropologist is studying the nature of romantic love in various cultures and is teaching a course called "The Anthropology of Love." She is available as a source for Valentine's Day stories.
A Johns Hopkins mathematician has developed a new statistical tool called curve estimation, which helps public health researchers untangle complicated data sets on such issues as the rate of declining immune cell counts in HIV patients.
A Johns Hopkins University psychologist has found the place in the brain where we stockpile short-term information on spatial relationships. It's not where everyone thought it would be, and that provides new evidence about the evolution of the brain from primates to humans.
Reporters and the general public are welcome at a Feb. 9 seminar on the challenges and potential of using massive processing power in computing. The seminar will be held at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, between Baltimore and Washington, D.C.
A historian of technology who has studied the automobile, Silicon Valley and the military-industrial complex has now turned his attention to what he calls the "Eighth Wonder of the Modern World:" Las Vegas. And he's scheduled a field trip for his students.
A $2.5 million grant will launch the Johns Hopkins Program in Computational Biology, designed to train tomorrow's scientists and engineers by breaking through some of the boundaries that traditionally divide the disciplines.
A Q&A on the world economy in 1999 with Steve Hanke, an applied economist at The Johns Hopkins University, known for his advocacy of currency boards and his involvement last year in proposed currency reforms in Indonesia.
Studies involving brain tumors demonstrate that flies are a very useful model for cancer research, according to Johns Hopkins University research.
Biophysicists say a new wave of cheap, widely available treatments is coming for ailments ranging from sexually transmitted diseases to the common cold.
Two Johns Hopkins economists are available for comment on the Jan. 1 introduction of the euro, the European Union's new common currency.
A four-year, $19 million project will study the impact of welfare reform on children and their families.
Johns Hopkins graduate students completing a 13-week study recommend urban revitalization strategies and better data collection to Baltimore officials.
Johns Hopkins political scientist and constitutional law scholar Joel Grossman is available to comment on impeachment proceedings.
Students in Johns Hopkins' Police Executive Leadership Program survey the Civil War battlefield at Gettysburg for lessons on modern police leadership.
On Jan. 1, 1999, thousands of welfare recipients are scheduled to be taken off the rolls as the impacts of welfare reform begin to be felt nationwide. This is a list of Johns Hopkins University experts on various aspects of the welfare reform story.
A Johns Hopkins materials engineer explains what causes silver tarnish and how to get rid of it without a large application of elbow grease.
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center have long-term evidence that a 70-year-old, unconventional diet helps many epileptic children, especially those who don't respond to modern medicines.
Researchers have found that soybean-produced monoclonal antibodies prevent the spread of the genital herpes virus in mice.
Psychologists find that loss of memory in old age is not caused by the death of brain cells, but rather by a change in the way the remaining cells function.
If global warming has temperatures and precipitation up, why are measures of evaporation down? Two environmental engineers have explained the paradox.
Title 1, a federal education program for disadvantaged students, is up for renewal next year. The new issue of the "Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk" examines the latest research on Title 1, including studies demonstrating when the program is effective and when it is not.
Johns Hopkins University will use the largest part of a recent $45 million gift to increase scholarships for next year's freshmen 25 percent and cut their debt at graduation by more than a third.
The chance find of large crystals in the rocks of the Dry Valleys of Antarctica has led to a startling discovery that may topple one of the fundamental principles of geology.
Physicists at Bell Labs and Johns Hopkins have found clues that subvert what once seemed to be a natural law: that solids must expand when heated.
If the Earth's climate is changing, how will it affect human health? Will warmer temperatures result in more mosquitos, spreading deadly malaria? Will new weather patterns trigger deadlier hurricanes? What can public policy makers do to reduce the human suffering? A Johns Hopkins graduate student has launched a Web site to distribute the latest research on issues of climate change and human health.
A new study of the nonprofit sector worldwide, conducted by Johns Hopkins University, finds it is huge and growing, the equivalent of the eighth largest economy in the world. Other surprising findings: The U.S. is not the world leader in nonprofit activity, ranking behind countries such as the Netherlands, Ireland and Israel.
A little telescope at Johns Hopkins, used only for students and public viewing, not for research, has come to the rescue of the ambitious Sloan Digital Sky Survey project.
The 18th century trappers who collected beaver pelts in the forests of what is now Baltimore may also have made dramatic changes to the area's landscape, waterways and vegetation. A Johns Hopkins team tracing that impact is part of a revolutionary project to document the history of urban ecosystems.
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