Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Standardizing Cyber Analytics to Secure Critical Infrastructure

A Johns Hopkins APL team has developed a framework for standardizing alerts transmitted by cybersecurity systems defending ...
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NASA Launches IMAP Mission to Study the Heliosphere and Better Understand Space Weather

Into a Sun-soaked sky above the Florida coast, NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) was launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center at 7:30 a.m ...
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Johns Hopkins APL Named a Best Workplace for Innovators for Seventh Straight Year

For the seventh year in a row, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, has been named to Fast Company’s list of the Best Workplaces for Innovators. APL placed 50th on ...
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NASA’s Dragonfly Soaring Through Key Development, Test Activities

NASA’s Dragonfly mission has cleared several key design, development and testing milestones and remains on track toward launch in July 2028. Dragonfly, a car-sized, nuclear-powered rotorcraft being ...
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Provisions From Pond Water? Researchers Leverage Biomanufacturing to Produce Food

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, are exploring a new approach to producing food on demand with unconventional materials. Through the Feedstocks ...
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Johns Hopkins APL Takes a Quantum Approach to Tracking Online Trends

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, have demonstrated that a quantum algorithm can be used to speed up an information analysis task that classical ...
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Johns Hopkins APL Develops Innovative Platform for Traumatic Brain Injury Research

Traumatic brain injuries have long affected military service members, with the Department of Defense reporting nearly 516,000 cases worldwide from 2000 to 2024. A team of researchers from the Johns ...
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Johns Hopkins APL, Navy Team up to Advance Additive Manufacturing for Critical Missions

Over the past decade, additive manufacturing has emerged as a disruptive force in advanced defense manufacturing. However, skepticism about its reliability — particularly for building crucial military ...
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Nano-engineered Thermoelectrics Enable Scalable, Compressor-Free Cooling

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, have developed a new, easily manufacturable solid-state thermoelectric refrigeration technology with ...
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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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Johns Hopkins APL, Microsoft Collaborate to Advance Robotics and Materials Discovery Using AI

The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, and Microsoft, of Redmond, Washington, have agreed to collaborate to accelerate innovation in robotics and materials discovery ...