Katie Pearce

1 week ago | notiulti.com | Katie Pearce

Por / Publicado 15 de abril de 2025Aplastar roca asteroides en polvo no era la parte difícil. Descubrir cómo hacerlo en gravedad cero fue. “El primer mes de nuestro proyecto, observamos todos estos mecanismos aplastantes que funcionan en la Tierra, y básicamente tuvieron que tirarlos”, dice Jonik Suprenant, uno de los cuatro Johns Hopkins Ingeniería Mecánica Seniors detrás del proyecto de diseño de estudiantes “Asteroid Grinder”. “No trabajan en el espacio”.

1 week ago | hub.jhu.edu | Katie Pearce

Crushing asteroid rock into dust wasn't the hard part. Figuring out how to do it in zero gravity was. "The first month of our project, we looked at all of these crushing mechanisms that work on Earth—and basically had to throw them out," says Jonik Suprenant, one of four Johns Hopkins mechanical engineering seniors behind the "Asteroid Grinder" student design project.

1 week ago | gmu.edu | Katie Pearce

After nearly three years of backorders and pharmacy scrambles, the high-demand weight-loss drugs Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro are finally back in full supply. The FDA recently declared an end to the nationwide shortage of their active ingredients, semaglutide and tirzepatide. During the shortage, pharmacies were temporarily allowed to sell “compounded” versions—custom-mixed alternatives made from raw ingredients.

2 months ago | hub.jhu.edu | Katie Pearce

On a recent visit to the Head and Neck Cancer In-Patient Unit at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Vikas Vattipally chatted with a patient about a range of topics: horseback riding, real estate, tuxedo cats, religion. What the third-year medical student did not discuss with the patient, an affable woman in her 70s, was why she lay in a hospital bed.

Jun 12, 2024 | hopkinsmedicine.org | Katie Pearce

By on Again, Kofi Boahene was called back to Ghana. It was 2011, and a hospital in Kumasi needed help with a complex surgery: A young boy with lymphoma, treated with radiation, had lost much of his lower face.  “There wasn’t much more they could do for him, but I had the expertise to fix it,” recalls Boahene, a facial reconstructive surgeon at Johns Hopkins. Boahene blocked off time from work and booked a ticket for the 10-hour flight to Ghana.