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A team of researchers from APL and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is developing next-generation brain ...
Optical Communications: History and a Look toward APL’s Future Contributions Cheryl A. Beard, Garret T. Bonnema, David W. Blodgett, David J. Copeland, Ryan G. Mennecke, Katherine T. Newell, Robert A.
As COVID-19 cases multiplied in early 2020, so too did the number of users turning to the Johns Hopkins University dashboard, which tracked global cases of COVID-19 in real time and quickly became the ...
Five years ago today, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft — designed, built and operated by Johns Hopkins APL — conducted the first close-up exploration of Pluto. Since then, scientists have uncovered ...
NASA’s Dragonfly mission team is moving on to the next stage of development on the revolutionary, car-sized nuclear-powered drone it plans to fly over and land on the organic-rich sands of Saturn’s ...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is dazzling scientists yet again, this time not with stunning images of the cosmos but instead with the first comprehensive list of molecular ingredients in the ...
When the Army began developing the shoulder-mounted Stinger anti-aircraft missile, it designed the weapon to hit incoming aircraft 60% of the time. However, if it had been fielded as originally ...
The Alfvén critical surface marks the end of the solar atmosphere and the beginning of the solar wind — and by crossing into it, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has “touched the Sun” for the first time.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins APL, in collaboration with Samsung Research, have unveiled a breakthrough in solid-state cooling technology, doubling the efficiency of today’s commercial systems. Driven ...
After a decade in the making, the Particle Environment Package (PEP)-Hi instruments, built by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, for an upcoming mission to Jupiter ...
Researchers from Johns Hopkins APL and the Johns Hopkins Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences are developing a modeling tool to predict climate “tipping points,” critical thresholds that, when ...