Hopkins Astrophysicists Detect One of the Farthest Supernovae
Spring 2012A team of Johns Hopkins astrophysicists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has detected a distant...
Reach Out and Touch Something
Spring 2012Pick up a pen, a cup, a book—no big deal; we don’t give it a...
Solving the Mysteries of Vision
Spring 2012In the retina, the thin tissue carpeting the back of the eye, an intriguing type...
Progress Versus Tradition in China
Spring 2012Christopher Mirasola ’12 spent the summer after his sophomore year studying Chinese in Beijing. There,...
Unearthing the Rise of Ethics in Medical Education
Spring 2012As a regular reader of medical journals, pre-med student Lindsey Hutzler ’12 thought nothing between...
A Breakthrough Ruling Rocks Not-so-Mundane Iowa
Spring 2012Andrew Rosenberg ’12 recognizes that his native Iowa—known for corn, soybeans, and the state fair—might...
Gauging Gatsby’s Universality
Spring 2012Chris Benner ’12, like countless other American students, has declared F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby...
Can You Wrap Your Head Around M2-Branes?
Fall 2011Michael Beard, the aging wunderkind physicist, was worried. “He liked to think he was an...
Number Sense? Count On It from Birth
Fall 2011Illustration: Robert Neubecker When Melissa Libertus was in high school, she loved math—and was so...
Landlocked
Fall 2011Location, location, location—the popular adage implies a property’s geographical site is the most important consideration...
Art and Amnesia: Solving Recovery’s Puzzles
Fall 2011Back in 2007, Lonni Sue Johnson was a successful artist and illustrator living in upstate...
Giving Voice to Those with HIV/AIDS
Fall 2011The most effective HIV prevention programs are tailored carefully to their intended audience, concludes Rachel...