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Does homework still have value? A Johns Hopkins education
Jan 17, 2024 · But after decades of researching how to improve schools, the professor in the Johns Hopkins School of Education remains certain that homework is essential—as long as the teachers have done their homework, too. The National Network of Partnership Schools, which she founded in 1995 to advise schools and districts on ways to improve comprehensive programs …
New study suggests that too much TV really can rot your brain
A recent study from the Bloomberg School of Public Health suggests that excess TV viewing can lead to reduced amounts of cranial gray matter.
This new interactive map lets you scroll through the universe
Nov 17, 2022 · A new map of the universe displays for the first time the span of the entire known cosmos with pinpoint accuracy and sweeping beauty. Created by Johns Hopkins University astronomers with data mined over two decades by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the map allows the public to experience data previously only accessible to scientists.. The interactive map, …
Robot performs first laparoscopic surgery without human help
Jan 26, 2022 · Working with collaborators at the Children's National Hospital in Washington, D.C. and Jin Kang, a Johns Hopkins professor of electrical and computer engineering, Krieger helped create the robot, a vision-guided system designed specifically to suture soft tissue.Their current iteration advances a 2016 model that repaired a pig's intestines accurately, but required a …
Map tracks coronavirus outbreak in near real time | Hub
Jan 23, 2020 · The Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering has built and is regularly updating an online dashboard for tracking the worldwide spread of the coronavirus outbreak that began in the Chinese city of Wuhan.. Lauren Gardner, a civil engineering professor and CSSE's co-director, spearheaded the effort to launch the mapping website on Wednesday.
Johns Hopkins rises to No. 6 in 'U.S. News' best colleges rankings
Sep 24, 2024 · Johns Hopkins University rose to No. 6 among national universities—its highest-ever position in the U.S. News & World Report rankings of the nation's best colleges for undergraduates.. The annual list, released today, showed the university tied for sixth with three other schools: California Institute of Technology, Duke University, and Northwestern University.
What is social distancing and how can it slow the spread of COVID …
Mar 13, 2020 · "The goal of social distancing in the U.S. should be to lower the pace and extent of spread of COVID-19 in any given city or community," Inglesby wrote recently on Twitter. "If that can happen, then there will be less people with disease, and less people needing hospitalization and ventilators at any one time."
What you need to know about JN.1, the latest COVID variant
Jan 12, 2024 · In early November 2023, the JN.1 variant caused less than 5% of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. Now it is estimated to cause more than 60% of them.
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