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Research by Hopkins scientists will help model how water exoplanets form and evolve—findings that could help in the search for life beyond our solar system

<p>Scientists have simulated conditions that allow hazy skies to form in water-rich exoplanets, a crucial step in determining how haziness muddles important telescope observations for the search of habitable worlds beyond the solar system.</p>

A man who was severely injured when he fell through a hole in a floor while visiting a friend’s home that was under construction was a licensee, not an invitee, a Michigan Court of Appeals panel has ruled, affirming a grant of summary disposition for the defendant general contractor.

Where a plaintiff was injured while visiting a friend’s home that was under construction, an award of summary disposition in favor of the defendant general contractor should be affirmed because the trial court did not err in concluding there was no genuine issue of fact that the plaintiff was not an invitee on the day of the fall.

Scientists have developed a therapeutic agent to treat heart failure caused by the stiffening of the walls of the chambers of the heart that prevents adequate filling of the chambers even when the pumping activity of the heart is normal. This form of heart failure has no available treatment at present. The authors have targeted a splicing factor that regulates the splicing of titin, a protein that regulates the elasticity of the heart walls.