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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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AI Reveals New Way to Strengthen Titanium Alloys and Speed Up Manufacturing

Producing high-performance titanium alloy parts — whether for spacecraft, submarines or medical devices — has long been a slow, resource-intensive process. Even with advanced metal 3D-printing ...
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Lunar Vertex: Solving Mysteries Swirling Around the Moon’s Magnetic Regions

First spied through primitive telescopes in the 1600s, Reiner Gamma is the most famous of the Moon’s so-called swirls, intriguing patterns of bright and dark soil that snake across the lunar surface.
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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, 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 ...
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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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How EZIE-Mag Pushes to Make Science More Accessible and Inclusive

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 ...
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Johns Hopkins APL Is Setting the Path to Prevent Traffic Jams in Space

Today, traffic in cislunar space might look like a quiet country road. It may never grow to resemble rush hour in Times Square, but experts believe the region will get much busier, prompting a need ...