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Undergraduate admissions

Fulfilling the promise

Published Nov 29, 2023

Five years after a historic $1.8 billion gift from alumnus and philanthropist Michael R. Bloomberg, Johns Hopkins University has dramatically increased both access and academic excellence

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Human cognition

Shaking boxes for science

Published Nov 20, 2023

When Johns Hopkins researchers asked hundreds of people to watch other people shake boxes, it took just seconds for almost all of them to figure out what the shaking was for

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Brain science

Brain scans of ex-NFL players show impact of collision sports

Published Nov 29, 2023

Hopkins Medicine research adds to a growing stack of evidence that collision sports including football, soccer, and boxing may lead to dementia and other forms of cognitive disorders

An illustration shows two water-rich exoplanets with heavy layers of haze orbiting their host star in outer space.

Image caption: Two water-rich exoplanets with heavy layers of haze orbit their host star

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Exoplanets

Clearer views of distant water worlds

Published Nov 27, 2023

Research by Hopkins scientists will help model how water exoplanets form and evolve—findings that could help in the search for life beyond our solar system