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Johns Hopkins APL Develops Innovative Platform for Traumatic Brain Injury Research
A team of researchers from APL and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is developing next-generation brain organoid platforms to better understand the effects of mild blast-induced ...
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Lunar Vertex - Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Unlike Earth, the Moon doesn’t have a global magnetic field. Instead, it has local patches of magnetized crustal rocks, called “magnetic anomalies.” Lunar Vertex will be the first mission to find out ...
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NASA Authorizes Dragonfly Mission to Proceed With Estimated 2028 Launch Readiness Date - Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
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 ...
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Johns Hopkins APL Earns Fifth Straight Selection to Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators List - Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) has been named by Fast Company as one of the Best Workplaces for Innovators in 2023. This marks the fifth year in a row the Lab has received the ...
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How EZIE-Mag Pushes to Make Science More Accessible and Inclusive - Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
NASA’s Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer (EZIE), scheduled to launch in late 2024, will image the magnetic fingerprint of the electrical currents that flow in the upper atmosphere and between Earth ...
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Shape-Shifting Antenna Poised to Transform Communications
By leveraging cutting-edge additive manufacturing techniques and shape memory alloys, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, have created an antenna ...
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AI Reveals New Way to Strengthen Titanium Alloys and Speed Up Manufacturing
Brendan Croom, a senior materials scientist at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, is pictured in APL’s X-ray Computed Tomography Laboratory, where high-resolution imaging helps researchers ...
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Johns Hopkins APL Teaming With DARPA to Accelerate Interoperability Standards for Commercial Lunar Infrastructure - Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, is applying its expertise in lunar science and technology to a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) initiative to ...
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NASA’s Webb Identifies Its First Exoplanet — And It’s the Size of Earth - Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
A team led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, has confirmed the discovery of an exoplanet — a planet orbiting another star — by NASA’s James Webb ...
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Johns Hopkins APL Devises Clean, Cost-Effective Method to Eliminate PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Water - Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
The great irony of nonstick coatings is that they actually do stick around — forever. Now, scientists at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, have devised a unique ...
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Johns Hopkins APL’s Ultracompact, Efficient Cooling Device Earns 2023 R&D 100 Award - Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
The Wearable Thin-Film Thermoelectric Cooling (TFTEC) device, developed at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, was named as a 2023 R&D 100 Awards winner as one of ...
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Amputee Makes Music with the Modular Prosthetic Limb
Johnny Matheny became the first person to take home the world’s most advanced Modular Prosthetic Limb (MPL) — developed by Johns Hopkins APL — in 2018 for a yearlong opportunity to see how the arm ...