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Engineering
Students invent quieter leaf blower
Published May 14, 2024
The challenge before Johns Hopkins University engineering students: Take a leaf blower, but make it quiet. Make it work as powerfully as ever, but do not allow it to emit the ear-piercing caterwaul that has gotten leaf blowers banned in some communities and cursed in many others. Shocking their sponsors, their advisers and even themselves a little, the students did it.
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Artificial intelligence
Chatbots tell people what they want to hear
Published May 13, 2024
A Johns Hopkins-led team found that chatbots reinforce our biases, providing insight into how AI could widen the public divide on controversial issues
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Chemistry
Potential tool against harmful insects
Published May 13, 2024
A way to curb nagging insects has been flying under our radar—an enzyme from fruit fly testes
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Animal cognition
'Surprisingly strategic' mice think like babies
Published April 26, 2024
Findings by Johns Hopkins neuroscientists deepen our understanding of animal cognition
The Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation awards 16 Love Your Block grants
May 6, 2024
What's quieter than a fish? A school of them
April 9, 2024
Mitt Romney to give Johns Hopkins Commencement address
March 28, 2024

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Johns Hopkins University presents Early Learning Center design
Published May 2, 2024
New center will accommodate more children, open by late 2025 or early 2026
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University News
Hopkins presents building plans for Data Science and AI Institute to city panel
Published April 11, 2024
Construction expected to generate hundreds of direct trade jobs, thousands of indirect positions
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New Jersey earthquake makes waves in Baltimore
Published April 5, 2024
A seismometer on the Homewood campus picked up Friday's earthquake, says Earth and Planetary Sciences Professor Benjamin Fernando
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Environmental health
California leads U.S. emissions of little-known greenhouse gas
Published April 3, 2024
The state emits more of the common pesticide sulfuryl fluoride than the rest of country combined, a JHU study finds
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Politics+Society
An up-close look at pro-democracy conservatives
Published April 1, 2024
In contrast to those who reject the results of the 2020 election, nearly a third of Republicans accept the results, trust institutions, and appreciate diverse political perspectives
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Bloomberg Philanthropies announces $200M commitment to support U.S. mayors taking on climate change
Published March 12, 2024
Bloomberg American Sustainable Cities will support 25 U.S. cities leading the way in reducing emissions and building more prosperous communities; New funding aims to ensure cities fully seize the opportunity to access billions of federal dollars on the table to implement transformative local solutions
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Planetary science
Interstellar signal linked to aliens was actually just a truck
Published March 7, 2024
The findings from a Johns Hopkins University-led team raise doubts that materials pulled last year from the ocean are alien materials from a 2014 meteor fireball