Good Behavior
Paul Ferraro is looking to win-win incentives to save the Chesapeake Bay—and the planet.
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Facing the Future
By creating ready-to-implant plastic bone that can turn into living tissue, Warren Grayson and his team aim to improve life…
Can You Hear Me Now?
Those best positioned to do research to help the deaf are the deaf themselves, contends Tilak Ratnanather. As a role…
The Need for Speed
By Andrew Myers Illustrations by Andrew Colin Beck In November 2014, a new sort of high-rise emerged on a grassy,…
Data Downlink
Alumnus Chris DeBoy oversees New Horizons’ Radio System, and its daily downloads from Pluto promise to shed new light on…
Healthy Measures
In labs across Johns Hopkins, engineers and medical experts are teaming up to design innovative devices, analyze vast treasure troves…
A Table of Contents for the Universe
Thanks to some “elegant” math, Tamás Budavári and his team have created a user-friendly catalog of images from the Hubble…
In Her Nature
As an engineer and an environmentalist, Erica Schoenberger is committed to finding ways to improve our unhealthy relationship with Mother Earth. Her new book lays out causes of our troubles and offers some fairly radical fixes.
Adventure Under Ice
Louis Whitcomb makes it possible for remote controlled underwater robotic vehicles to explore the most extreme environments on earth—including the…