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iPhone X pre-orders released and demand is soaring
Mothers shift the tone of their voice when talking to babies.
In a new study, published in Current Biology, geneticists at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz) have delved into the ancestry of the people of Easter Island. They used genomics to prove that the Polynesians on the island had no contact with the indigenous peoples of South America prior to 1722.
Over the past 200 years, since the start of the Industrial Revolution, pollution has increased sharply.
On Saturday, Oct. 28, Ataxia Ambassadors at Hopkins hosted their annual Arts for Ataxia event. Ataxia describes symptoms of poor coordination and difficulty with fine motor skills.
Between 2014 and 2016, an epidemic of Ebola swept across West Africa, infecting over 28,600 people and leaving over 10,000 dead. In Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, where the epidemic was primarily located, the disease left behind around 17,000 survivors. Many of them are now dealing with an unexpected complication: cataracts.
Last Thursday evening in Mason Hall, students and faculty attended the second Conversations in Medicine seminar of this semester.
A Fields Medal is not in everyone’s future, and that’s fine. However, that shouldn’t stop people from acquiring a decent level of mathematical understanding.
This illness, however, began to spread beyond Water Street. It was finally identified on Aug. 19 when Dr. Benjamin Rush, one of the most prominent American physicians of the time, announced that the cases were of yellow fever.
Over the past few decades, educational and developmental psychologists have attempted to understand the link between the concept of one’s self and academic achievement.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to control how long you live?
Animals are commonly believed to possess innate social behaviors. A one-day-old baby chick will instinctively search for its mother and follow closely by her side.
Among the many interesting health fads to surface or resurface in the 21st century, women eating their own placentas has been regarded as one of the most bizarre.
Hopkins, one of the oldest research universities in the U.S., offers students a range of different research opportunities.
In early October, thousands gathered in Orlando, Fla. to celebrate the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, the world’s largest gathering of women in computer science.
A video game obsession is the bane for many parents who wish their child would focus more on their schoolwork, chores or other responsibilities. Traditionally, video games have been linked to lower productivity levels in adolescents.
I can’t say I’ve always been an avid believer in the existence of extraterrestrial life.
Google commits a record $1 billion to promote innovation
Some of them did it for science, others out of curiosity. Some had altruistic motives, others just had plans for the $4,000 they would be receiving after the study.
In a new study at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the University of Maryland School of Medicine, microbiologists genetically modified mosquitoes to be more resistant to Plasmodium, the parasite that causes malaria, by changing the composition of the mosquitoes’ gut bacteria.