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Johns Hopkins APL Experts Named to Department of War’s First Science, Technology and Innovation Board

Mitch Nikolich and James Gosler, national security experts from APL, have been named to the Department of War’s first Science ...
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Johns Hopkins Selects Caporaletti to Chair Engineering Management Graduate Program

Stephanie Caporaletti, assistant branch supervisor in the Asymmetric Operations Sector at APL, has been appointed as chair of ...
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Geesaman Appointed Precision Strike Mission Area Executive at Johns Hopkins APL

Brian Geesaman will lead a diverse portfolio of programs and initiatives focused on integrated strike warfare capabilities, ...
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Flight Engineers Give NASA’s Dragonfly Lift

When NASA’s Dragonfly begins full rotorcraft integration and testing in early 2026, the mission team will tap into a trove of ...
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Johns Hopkins APL-Supported Researchers Turn Biological Innovation Into a New Startup

With support from APL, former staff members John Sittmann and Tom Curtis have launched Deep Root Biolabs, a startup advancing ...
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‘We Had to Get This Right’: How Johns Hopkins Built the Coronavirus Tracking Global Dashboard: An Oral History

Rumblings of a mysterious new virus impacting the region of Wuhan, China, began making the news rounds in the U.S. starting in early 2020. At the time, the virus seemed like a distant worry — too far ...
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NASA’s Webb Telescope Reveals an Exoplanet Atmosphere in ‘Once Impossible’ Detail

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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Johns Hopkins APL’s Ultracompact, Efficient Cooling Device Earns 2023 R&D 100 Award

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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The Van Allen Probes Transformed Everything We Know About Earth’s Radiation Belts. What’s Next?

Nine years ago this week, NASA’s Van Allen Probes launched on a mission to fly through and study Earth’s ring current and radiation belts — rings of charged particles trapped in Earth’s magnetic field ...
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A New Path to Noninvasive Brain-Computer Interface

Controlling a computer with your mind was once pure science fiction, but it’s now plausible thanks to brain-computer interface (BCI) technology. Today’s BCI systems have achieved extraordinary ...
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Johns Hopkins APL Publishes Report on Nation’s First Space Weather Simulation Exercise

The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, recently released the results of the nation’s first end-to-end Space Weather Tabletop Exercise (TTX), held in May 2024. The ...
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Shape-Shifting Antenna Poised to Transform Communications

The shape of an antenna’s front end dictates many of its operating parameters. Once it’s manufactured, those characteristics are locked in. A shape-changing antenna would enable communications across ...