Glenn Schwartz, the Whiting Professor of Archaeology in the Department of Near Eastern Studies, talks...
Section: Research
How Free Is Free Will?
Fall 2012
The nature of free will and moral responsibility is a discussion philosophers have been having...
Professor Discovers Remains of Ancient Human Ancestor
Spring 2012
It seems that “Lucy” was not the only hominin on the block in northern Africa...
Hopkins Astrophysicists Detect One of the Farthest Supernovae
Spring 2012
A team of Johns Hopkins astrophysicists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has detected a distant...
Reach Out and Touch Something
Spring 2012
Pick up a pen, a cup, a book—no big deal; we don’t give it a...
Solving the Mysteries of Vision
Spring 2012
In the retina, the thin tissue carpeting the back of the eye, an intriguing type...
Progress Versus Tradition in China
Spring 2012
Christopher Mirasola ’12 spent the summer after his sophomore year studying Chinese in Beijing. There,...
Unearthing the Rise of Ethics in Medical Education
Spring 2012
As a regular reader of medical journals, pre-med student Lindsey Hutzler ’12 thought nothing between...
A Breakthrough Ruling Rocks Not-so-Mundane Iowa
Spring 2012
Andrew Rosenberg ’12 recognizes that his native Iowa—known for corn, soybeans, and the state fair—might...
Gauging Gatsby’s Universality
Spring 2012
Chris Benner ’12, like countless other American students, has declared F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby...
Can You Wrap Your Head Around M2-Branes?
Fall 2011
Michael Beard, the aging wunderkind physicist, was worried. “He liked to think he was an...
Number Sense? Count On It from Birth
Fall 2011
Illustration: Robert Neubecker When Melissa Libertus was in high school, she loved math—and was so...