Listen Up, Oysters. Your New Home is Calling

Listen Up, Oysters. Your New Home is Calling

Students engineer solar-powered sounds to attract Chesapeake Bay bivalves. By Dino Lencioni Chesapeake Bay oysters are more than a favorite seafood delicacy: These vital filter feeders help maintain water quality and their reefs also serve as critical habitats for...
Solving Puzzles for Prey at the Maryland Zoo

Solving Puzzles for Prey at the Maryland Zoo

Johns Hopkins undergraduate engineers bring the thrill of the hunt to bobcats Kilgore and Josie with their high-tech take on the classic ‘Whac-A-Mole’ arcade game By Jaimie Patterson Specialists at the Maryland Zoo know how important it is for animals...
OcuSound: An affordable, non-contact solution for monitoring glaucoma

OcuSound: An affordable, non-contact solution for monitoring glaucoma

An estimated 80 million people around the world suffer from glaucoma, a group of chronic, progressive eye diseases caused by damage to the optic nerve often due to excessive fluid buildup in the eye. Glaucoma is a leading cause of irreversible blindness, especially in...