Research
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Team Examines Dirty Truth Behind Recycling Plastics
April 4, 2026
Researchers find that cross-contamination can minimize the amount of reusable material—but there is a solution.
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Can Timber Columns Stand Up to the Heat of Burning Buildings?
April 2, 2026
As taller mass timber buildings become more common, researchers investigate their structural response to fires to develop safer building designs and fire resistance specifications.
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Successful Part Production Advances Digital Twin Modeling Project
February 16, 2026
Researchers have completed their first successful production of a challenge part through their NASA Space Technology Research Institute, co-led by Johns Hopkins University and Carnegie Mellon University, which will advance efforts to optimize additive manufacturing of custom components used in aeroengines.
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Engineers Chip Away at Dynamics Behind Debris from Impacted Asteroids
January 8, 2026
A team led by Ryan Hurley, co-deputy director of HEMI, found that kinetic energy was the biggest factor.
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Shaky Proposition: Engineers Link Metal Deformation to Earthquake Physics
December 23, 2025
When observing metal deformation at the microscopic scale, HEMI researchers Jaafar El-Awady and Mostafa Omar observed foreshocks, mainshocks, and aftershocks similar to earthquakes.
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New Tech Reduces False Positives From Breast Ultrasounds
December 18, 2025
Advance by Johns Hopkins researchers could spare patients unnecessary follow-up exams and procedures.
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Civil and Systems Engineering Dataset Selected by NSF to Train Innovative AI Models
November 20, 2025
Fracture mechanics dataset created by postdoc Maryam Hakimzadeh and HEMI Fellows Somdatta Goswami and Lori Graham-Brady among 10 selected for NSF AI pilot program
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When Computers Get It Wrong
November 5, 2025
PhD student Sreenivas Raguraman and HEMI Fellows Paulette Clancy and Tim Weihs highlight a missing piece in AI-driven materials design: processing methods.
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Materials Scientists Work Together to Muzzle Mass Destruction
October 30, 2025
A Johns Hopkins-led research alliance across the country seeks to understand and mitigate the world's most lethal weapons.
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Sharper Vision in Surgery
October 13, 2025
Johns Hopkins researchers — including Bisi Bell — use AI and photoacoustics to track surgical tool tips in real time with millimeter accuracy.
