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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 ...
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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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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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Lunar Vertex: Solving Mysteries Swirling Around the Moon’s Magnetic Regions - Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Artist’s impression of the Lunar Vertex rover on the surface of the Moon. Equipped with a magnetometer and microscopic camera, the solar-powered rover will leave the Lunar Vertex lander to explore up ...
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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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With Basestack, Johns Hopkins APL Enables Crucial Genomics Work Around the World - Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Genomics work has historically been the province of small, highly specialized laboratories with access to top-of-the-line hardware, infrastructure support and technical expertise. Now, a software ...
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Dragonfly Guest Investigator Program Provides Bridge to Opportunities - Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Karla Negrete always wondered how she could apply her mechanical engineering skills in the space field, so when she stumbled upon the Dragonfly Student and Early Career Guest Investigator Program on ...
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The Human Touch: Johns Hopkins APL Engineers Develop Tech Usability Standards - Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
James recently played a key role in developing a Human Readiness Level (HRL) scale that indicates a system’s readiness for use by humans. In September 2021, the American National Standards Institute ...