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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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Vol. 35, No. 4 (2021) | Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
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.
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‘We Had to Get This Right’: How Johns Hopkins Built the Coronavirus Tracking Global Dashboard: An Oral History - Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
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 ...
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Five Years After the Flyby, 10 Cool Things We Know About Pluto
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 ...
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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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NASA’s Webb Telescope Reveals an Exoplanet Atmosphere in ‘Once Impossible’ Detail - Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
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 ...
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A Taste of Titan - Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
The Titan Chamber — the largest environmental simulator ever deployed on the campus of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland — is open for business. The team ...
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Nano-engineered Thermoelectrics Enable Scalable, Compressor-Free Cooling
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 ...
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Johns Hopkins Scientists Leverage AI to Discover Climate ‘Tipping Points’ - Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
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 ...
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BOLT Experiment Readies for Final Flight in Sweden
The BOLT experiment hardware will rely on thermocouples, pressure sensors and heat-transfer gauges to mark the onset of boundary layer transition during flight. The vast wilderness of SSC’s rocket ...