Recent news from The Johns Hopkins University
This section contains regularly updated highlights of the news from around The Johns Hopkins
University. Links to the complete news reports from the nine schools,
the Applied Physics Laboratory and other centers and institutes are to
the left, as are links to help news media contact the Johns Hopkins
communications offices.
They say variety is the spice of life, and now new discoveries from Johns Hopkins researchers suggest that a certain elemental ‘variety’—sulfur—is indeed a ‘spice’ that can perhaps point to signs of life.
April 6, 2020 Tags: atmosphere, Chao He, exoplanet, haze, Sarah Horst, sulfur
| Category: Earth Science
Scientists have conducted the first lab experiments on haze formation in simulated exoplanet atmospheres, an important step for understanding upcoming observations of planets outside the solar system with the James Webb Space Telescope.
March 7, 2018 Tags: atmosphere, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Earth and Planetary Sciences, exoplanets, planetary atmospheres, Sarah Horst
| Category: Chemistry, Earth Science, Physics and Astronomy
The National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado has reported that there is less ice in the Arctic Ocean this summer than at any time since satellite measurements were first taken back in 1979, a finding that underscores the reality of global climate change. Johns Hopkins oceanographer Thomas Haine, who studies how the physics of ocean currents affects global climate, is available to put these findings into perspective.
August 29, 2012 Tags: Arctic sea ice, atmosphere, carbon dioxide, ecosystem, global warming, Morton K. Blaustein Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, NSIDC, The National Snow and Ice Data Center, Thomas Haine
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Homewood Campus News, Natural Sciences, Public Health, University-Related
