Johns Hopkins Engineers Develop Drive-thru Type Test to Detect Viral Infections in Bacteria
The pandemic has made clear the threat that some viruses pose to people. But viruses can also infect life-sustaining bacteria and a Johns Hopkins University-led team has developed a test to determine if bacteria are sick, similar to the one used to...
25-Feb-2021 12:55 PM EST
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Vaccine Prioritization Dashboard Launches @JohnsHopkins for People with Disabilities
A new Johns Hopkins data tool helps people with disabilities determine when they qualify for the COVID-19 vaccine and compares how different states prioritize the disability community in the vaccine rollout.
Created by researchers, students and...
18-Feb-2021 10:10 AM EST
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The Richer You are, The More Likely You’ll Social Distance, Study Finds
The higher a person’s income, the more likely they were to protect themselves at the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States, Johns Hopkins University economists find.
When it comes to adopting behaviors including social...
14-Jan-2021 10:50 AM EST
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Bats Can Predict the Future, JHU Researchers Discover
They can’t tell fortunes and they’re useless with the stock market but bats are quite skilled at predicting one thing: where to find dinner.
Bats calculate where their prey is headed by building on-the-fly predictive models of target motion...
29-Oct-2020 9:40 AM EDT
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Dog Training Methods Help JHU Teach Robots to Learn New Tricks
With a training technique commonly used to teach dogs to sit and stay, Johns Hopkins University computer scientists showed a robot how to teach itself several new tricks, including stacking blocks. With the method, the robot, named Spot, was able to...
26-Oct-2020 12:05 PM EDT
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JHU Robotic System Remotely Controls Ventilators In COVID-19 Patient Rooms
A new robotic system allows medical staff to remotely operate ventilators and other bedside machines from outside intensive care rooms of patients suffering from infectious diseases.
12-Aug-2020 1:10 PM EDT
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Study: Dying Stars Breathe Life Into Earth
As dying stars take their final few breaths of life, they gently sprinkle their ashes into the cosmos through the magnificent planetary nebulae. These ashes, spread via stellar winds, are enriched with many different chemical elements, including...
6-Jul-2020 10:30 AM EDT
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New Seminar Series Aims To Expose, Explain Threats to U.S. Democracy
A group of political science scholars is launching a webinar series on Friday to highlight escalating threats to democracy that have been percolating for decades and boiling over ever since Donald Trump’s election.
24-Jun-2020 3:10 PM EDT
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Johns Hopkins Experts Available to Discuss CDC, FDA Suspension of Johnson & Johnson Vaccine
13-Apr-2021 11:05 AM EDT
A Johns Hopkins University health care expert is available to offer perspective on the news that a mistake at a Johnson & Johnson factory producing the COVID-19 vaccine resulted in the loss of millions of doses.
1-Apr-2021 11:15 AM EDT
Repeating a Grade? Johns Hopkins Expert Available on Best Ways to Make Up Pandemic Learning Loss
26-Mar-2021 3:40 PM EDT
On the one-year anniversary of the pandemic in the U.S., experts @JohnsHopkins can speak about the implications of WFH and SchoolFH on the future of work and education.
2-Mar-2021 3:00 PM EST
Most U.S. Schools Teaching Black History, But Few Doing It Well
As the United States marks Black History Month this year, more K-12 schools in the United States are teaching Black history than ever before. However, ongoing analysis from Johns Hopkins University finds these efforts often fail, because coursework...
10-Feb-2021 12:50 PM EST
Expert @JohnsHopkins Can Discuss Expected Mass Evictions Due to COVID-19 Crisis
20-Jul-2020 8:35 AM EDT
Expert from @JohnsHopkins Available on Altered Sense of Time During Pandemic
1-Jun-2020 11:10 AM EDT
Robots vs. #COVID19: @JohnsHopkins expert available to discuss how robots may soon be used to disinfect operating rooms, resume manufacturing, take temperatures and more.
25-Mar-2020 2:00 PM EDT
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