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Johns Hopkins APL Director Emeritus Semmel Elected to the National Academy of Engineering

APL Director Emeritus Ralph Semmel has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering for his leadership in generating innovative and disruptive engineering advancements in defense, national ...
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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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Johns Hopkins APL Research Helps Shape Landmark Federal Expansion of Unmanned Aircraft Operations

APL’s involvement in unmanned aircraft safety traces back to its earlier work on collision avoidance for manned aviation.
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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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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 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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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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First SURPASS Teams Set to Tackle Tough Societal Challenges

Imagine being able to detect unhealthy brain activity just by putting on a hat, potentially detecting future incidences of dementia and Alzheimer’s years before onset, or making transportation in the ...
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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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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 ...