3+ hour, 26+ min ago  (368+ words) Credit: Alec Zabrecky / Johns Hopkins University Hermans' investigations have been essential in deepening our understanding of how catalyst structure and reaction conditions influence selectivity, leading to more precise control over chemical outcomes. Improving the selectivity of a chemical reaction increases…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (532+ words) Conventional wastewater treatment methods are effective at killing pathogens and reducing metals, but they are far less successful at neutralizing complex organic chemicals. This limitation prompted the research team to explore new, low-cost, and sustainable approaches to reducing pharmaceutical contamination…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (254+ words) D'az said he is deeply honored to be recognized by the Sloan Foundation. "Being named a Sloan Fellow feels surreal and humbling given the historic weight and legacy'of this award," he said. "I am incredibly grateful for this fellowship, which…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (374+ words) At first glance, the lab seems normal. Undergraduate students are gathered around copper apparatuses, fiddling with hot plates as they wait for something to happen. And then the first sweet-smelling drops appear. In senior lecturer Eric Johnson's Intersession course, The…...

8+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1086+ words) By the time his alarm buzzed at 6 a. m. , Stephen Fried's inbox was already bursting with messages. Headlines from around the world proclaimed that an artificial intelligence system called Alpha Fold had finally managed to predict the complex, multidimensional curves and folds…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago  (192+ words) Image credit: Will Kirk / Johns Hopkins University Kempa, an associate professor in Johns Hopkins University's Department of Chemistry, just received a five-year, $1. 3 million award from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to expand his new concept. The foundation describes its…...

7+ mon, 2+ day ago  (313+ words) A Johns Hopkins University engineer has developed a specialized AI tool that could do for materials scientists what Chat GPT has done for coders and writers. The new system, called Chat GPT Materials Explorer, or CME, could speed the discovery…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago  (350+ words) A team of Johns Hopkins engineers has developed a new, more powerful method to observe molecular vibrations, an advance that could have far-reaching implications for early disease detection." The team, led by Ishan Barman, a professor in the Department of…...