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(04/23/15 1:19pm)
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), an independent government agency which regulates interstate communications in the United States, recently fined AT&T $25 million for a privacy leak regarding personal information and Social Security numbers of nearly 280,000 customers over a period of three years. It is the largest fine which has ever been issued for data and privacy violations in the history of the U.S.
(03/26/15 2:23pm)
On every medical form, there is that one box to check off: “allergies.” It’s a question that most people are lucky enough to gloss over, but allergies are a very real problem in the United States and the world, especially among children. It is estimated that between two percent and 10 percent of children in the world are afflicted with food allergies.
(03/12/15 4:12pm)
The surface of the planet Mars is currently a barren desert, bereft of most traces of liquid water and life. But recently, more intriguing news about the state of water on Mars has been discovered: Scientists have found evidence not just of the presence of abundant liquid water, but of entire oceans on the surface of the planet four billion years ago.
(03/05/15 5:43pm)
Consider the word “pollution.” What comes to mind? Perhaps constellations obscured by thick smog, perhaps the bright-red skyline of some industrial city by night, perhaps factories expelling billows of smoke. Perhaps even specific cities as Beijing and Shanghai, places notorious for having extreme amounts of pollution, to the discomfort of residents and travelers.
(02/19/15 5:17pm)
You are enjoying your vacation on the East Coast in the thick of the heady, swollen heat of summer. You spend your days roaming swamps, swimming in lakes and sunbathing by the water. One particularly hot day you notice a rash on your leg — it looks a little like a target, or a bulls-eye, but you don’t think much of it. After all, bugs are a consequence of East-Coast weather, and you look forward to when the rash subsides. After a few days, it does.
(02/12/15 6:40pm)
Popular culture and media have long toyed with how humans might wrestle with knowing the exact date they were going to die.
(02/05/15 5:09pm)
The big chemistry test is tomorrow. You’ve been up pouring through and highlighting your textbook, consolidating your notes into one dense study sheet, and cramming all the information about alkanes, aromatic molecules and reaction mechanisms that you can in one night. Your brain is sated, and it’s time for a celebratory cup of coffee to cement those facts.
(01/29/15 5:11pm)
Organ donation is typically a difficult process: Recipients must wait on organ donation waiting lists for indefinite periods of time, and the families of donors are forced to make an extremely hard decision during a time already marred by painful and recent loss.
(12/04/14 6:44pm)
Depression has long been a misunderstood disorder. Even its classification remains tenuous: It has been characterized as a disease, an emotional disorder and a dysfunction of the brain, among many other labels. And the affliction itself continues to resist understanding.
(11/13/14 7:49pm)
From Oct. 24 to 26, the Hopkins Center for Biomedical Innovation and Design (CBID) and Jhpiego, a non-profit organization associated with Hopkins that works to bring healthcare to poorer areas of the world, hosted the first Emergency Ebola Design Challenge at Hopkins. The Design Challenge was focused on creating better personal protective equipment (PPE) for health workers fighting Ebola in West Africa.
(11/06/14 7:10pm)
Imagine falling down and getting a wound that won’t heal, or eating and not being able to digest your food, or even not being able to remember events that have just occurred. These processes are only a few of the many that we take for granted but are so vital that without them, our standard of living would be severely compromised. And each of them is partly contingent upon a single 148 amino acid-long protein, calmodulin, which modulates the chains of signals within our cells to allow us to digest, remember and heal.
(10/16/14 7:03pm)
Consider the vaccine. It is administered to hundreds of thousands of screaming infants and toddlers each year; its advertisements are ubiquitous in store and pharmacy windows during flu season. Vaccines are also commonly grown and incubated in the eggs of mammalian animals, to be harvested and made into the fluid which we inject into our upper arms. But researchers have found that there may be a cheaper and better way to produce vaccines, and the answer lies in the form of the tobacco plant.
(10/02/14 4:52pm)
Picture the Milky Way galaxy: our home, and the only galaxy that humanity has ever known. It is large and serene, a spiral of incredible beauty and unimaginable proportions. It is an inspiration to artists, philosophers and candy bar manufacturers alike. The earth resides peacefully in this galaxy, calm and seemingly endless — but the conditions of the Milky Way are far from static. In fact, our home galaxy will soon eat other galaxies and in turn be “eaten” — that is, merge with smaller dwarf galaxies. When this happens, life as we know it will cease to exist. This desolate finding was published recently in the prestigious journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, which is produced by the Oxford University Press.
(09/25/14 5:44pm)
Rob Phillips, professor of biophysics and biology at the California Institute of Technology, came to Hopkins last Thursday to give the third Robert Resnick lecture on his groundbreaking work in physical biology.
(09/18/14 6:01pm)
What’s the first image that comes to mind when someone says the word “dinosaur?” Maybe a menacing T. rex with huge, gnashing teeth and comically short arms, or a stegosaurus with its tail spikes and bony, distinctive plates or perhaps even a triceratops with its three large horns and frill of bone.
(09/11/14 6:13pm)
Pinching and pulling, pressing and picking, typing and texting: these are just a few of the myriad uses of the hand’s most mobile joint, the thumb. But researchers at Johns Hopkins Hospital have found that the movement we take so much for granted in this versatile joint may come at a cost.