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Maybe from the 4,000 photos in my “Sky” photo album or the fact that I have always enjoyed researching deep-sky objects, you’d think that I am a sky enthusiast. However, I did not realize how much joy I find in the objects in the sky until this summer.
Around 17 years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered one of its most consequential decisions in modern American history. The case before the court — District of Columbia v. Heller — concerned D.C.’s law that banned people within the jurisdiction of the District from possessing handguns or assembled long guns for purposes such as individual self-defense. This case is one which took up the mantle of a centuries-long debate regarding the intended scope of the Second Amendment and sought to settle its ambiguous wording.
Defining art
The Fall Classic is set! Starting this Friday, Oct. 24, it will be the Los Angeles Dodgers against the Toronto Blue Jays in the 2025 World Series. Two teams loaded with talent, but who took very different paths to get here.
The University held a celebration on Wednesday, Oct. 15, in honor of the University’s new fleet of electric buses that will be used in the University’s shuttle services, including the Homewood-Peabody-JHMI shuttle. The new buses are part of a wider plan to increase sustainability efforts across the University’s campuses.
The COVID-19 pandemic tested governments, basic research scientists and pharmaceutical industries worldwide, forcing administrations, labs and companies to accelerate and innovate their research at warp speed. Each extra day it took for a treatment or vaccine to reach patients meant more pandemic-related casualties. One crucial factor in vaccine development was the race to understand the viral spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, a crucial viral surface component required for viral entry which had long been touted as a potential target for coronavirus vaccines.
Ms. Toomey, my IB Arts teacher, introduced me to the idea of the gratitude journal. She asked students in our class to identify three things we felt thankful for in our lives. We started with standard answers like parents, friends and pets before the list grew unbounded: water bottles, phone cases and the school cafeteria, which served the crowd-favorite chicken tender box. Soon, students began competing to see who could be more inventive with their gratitude after realizing that even the most mundane objects could be worthy of a thank-you note.
Most people dream of sunlit beaches or bustling cities for their next adventure, but I want to go where TikTok only shows the most terrifying whiplash: the infamous Drake Passage Cruise to Antarctica. The Drake Passage connects the Pacific, Atlantic and Southern Ocean. The location explains the clips of the 40-foot waves causing fine silverware shattering and passengers constantly holding on for dear life on the railings sailing through what it is coined as the “Drake Shake,” making it known as the dangerous waters in the world. Yet, I want to face the chaos and find comfort in the uncomfortable. After the chaos lies a stillness that feels otherworldly, surrounded by icebergs shining in the soft light, reminding you of the untouched beauty that’s still left in the world.
On Sept. 16, The Johns Hopkins News-Letter Editorial Board released an article bearing the title “On generative AI: The News-Letter commitment to journalistic integrity.” It set the paper’s opinion on the application of artificial intelligence to student journalism, that The News-Letter would not sacrifice ethical reporting in the cause of efficiency, though the temptation may be. The editors provided three primary justifications for this stance: (1) generative AI is not capable of being responsible for its actions, (2) AI is able to violate copyrights and (3) AI can harm the process of critical thinking.
If you look past the chaotic mess of a college student’s desk — scattered with free stickers, pens, the half-empty Brita and a plant that’s probably a couple of seconds from death, you’re bound to see something that looks like “trash.” For my roommate and me, that trash takes the form of a round plastic box, filled to the brim with cookies.
The WNBA is a growing industry: from selling out crowds to record breaking viewership, there has been massive growth within the league over the last two years. New talent including Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese and Paige Bueckers have massively elevated league popularity, with additional newfound respect for league veterans like A’ja Wilson, Alyssa Thomas and Napheesa Collier.
Like a horse with a broken leg, I have come to face my own death sentence: I am a poet uncomfortable unpacking emotion.
Family has always been important to those working in population genetics. When Sohini Ramachandran was a postdoc, the issue of relatives in a dataset causing inaccurate results was considered a major problem in the field. In a Biology Department Seminar held at Mudd Hall on Oct. 9, she expanded upon two of her related research projects describing the analysis of genomic datasets.
On Sept. 22, 2025, President Donald Trump, alongside Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) would be notifying physicians that the use of acetaminophen (Tylenol) by expectant mothers can be associated with a “very increased risk of autism.” This announcement has been met with widespread criticism from the scientific community.
I sat on the floor a lot as a kid. Our hardwood floors were the perfect temperature to escape the heat of the summer daylight, and I would spend many afternoons starfished out on the floor, zoning out, or playing with my older brother’s LEGOs while waiting for my mom to finish cooking lunch. I would often sit in front of our family television — a smaller, chunky VIZIO model at the time — and watch whatever episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender (ATLA) was airing on Nickelodeon. I would sit there and watch episodes with my brother until the screen got hot and my mom told me I was sitting too close to the TV; that my vision would get worse. Only then would I tear my eyes away from whatever waterbending battle Katara was up to and scoot back, maybe three inches, still cross-legged.
What if we could trace the origins of disease back to just four letters — the DNA base — and even correct them at the molecular level?
On Oct. 8, 2025 the Department of Materials Science and Engineering hosted Yifei Mo for a seminar titled “Computation Accelerated Design and Discovery of Materials for Next-Generation Batteries.”
1-Across: First option in a phrase said on Halloween
1-Across: Ab’s neighbor
1-Down: Follow