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 ...

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 ...

Designing, building, and applying new technologies—especially those that include artificial intelligence—can be a double-edged sword: powerful and enabling on the one hand, but potentially biased and ...

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 ...

The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, has named Robert Vercher as the Strategic Deterrence Mission Area Executive. Vercher will lead a mission area that provides key ...

NASA’s mission to “touch” the Sun has confirmed that it survived its record-breaking closest approach to the Sun’s surface on Dec. 24. Breaking its previous record by flying just 3.8 million miles ...

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Researchers at Johns Hopkins APL have established new, scalable methods of developing battery- and solar-powered fibers, making it theoretically possible for electrical energy to be harvested from, ...

Johns Hopkins APL’s 13 mission areas are organized and equipped to meet unique sponsor and mission needs, providing them with dedicated, on-call engineering, scientific, and analytical expertise. Our ...

Dr. Andrew Rivkin is a planetary astronomer whose research centers on the study of asteroids for scientific and planetary defense purposes. As investigation lead for the Double Asteroid Redirection ...

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 ...