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Released: 30-Jan-2024 4:05 PM EST
Using Artificial Intelligence, Better Pollution Predictions Are in the Air
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Fueled by increasing temperatures and droughts, severe wildfires are on the rise around the world — as are the smoke-borne contaminants that harm the environment and human health. In 2023, Canada recorded its worst wildfire season ever, with fires releasing more than 290 million tons of carbon into the atmosphere. California also experienced record-setting fire seasons in 2020 and 2021.

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Released: 10-Jan-2024 2:05 PM EST
For Third Straight Year, Johns Hopkins APL Named Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award Winner and Top 50 Best Place to Work
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For a third consecutive year, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, has been named a winner of Glassdoor’s Employees’ Choice Award, and earned a spot as one of the Best Places to Work for 2024.

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Released: 10-Jan-2024 2:05 PM EST
Tabletop Exercise at Johns Hopkins APL Prepares Government and Industry for Bioeconomy Security Threats
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Representatives from the federal government, academia and private industry convened at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, for a tabletop exercise to assess the nation’s preparedness for security threats unique to the bioeconomy. In May 2023, several dozen experts in public health, policy, cyber, physical sciences and law came together to identify vulnerabilities, develop mitigation recommendations and establish a greater understanding of the extent of the threats to key biological capabilities.

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Released: 15-Nov-2023 11:05 AM EST
Johns Hopkins APL Researchers Develop Advanced Material for Efficient Thermal Management
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins APL made a breakthrough in developing a smart material that changes its behavior based on temperature.

Released: 15-Aug-2023 4:05 PM EDT
Johns Hopkins APL Creates Autonomy Safety Net for AFWERX Autonomy Prime Program
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APL is equipping AFWERX — a technology directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory and the innovation arm of the Department of the Air Force — with capabilities to quickly and safely test autonomous vehicles in complex, interactive environments.

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Released: 1-Aug-2023 12:45 PM EDT
Johns Hopkins APL Restores Cold Sensation in Amputees’ Phantom Limbs
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) researchers have developed one of the world’s smallest, most intense and fastest refrigeration devices, the wearable thin-film thermoelectric cooler (TFTEC), and teamed with neuroscientists to help amputees perceive a sense of temperature with their phantom limbs. This advancement, one of the first of its kind, enables a useful new capability for a variety of applications, including improved prostheses, haptics for new modalities in augmented reality (AR) and thermally modulated therapeutics for applications such as pain management.

   
Newswise: Medics and Machines: Developing Robotic Technologies to Provide Assured Care in the Field
Released: 1-Aug-2023 12:30 PM EDT
Medics and Machines: Developing Robotic Technologies to Provide Assured Care in the Field
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Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, are exploring how emerging capabilities in artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality (AR) and robotics might support collaborative intervention by teams of medics, AI-based virtual assistants and autonomous robots.

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Released: 10-Nov-2022 12:00 PM EST
Johns Hopkins APL Releases First-Ever Global Estimates for Road Transportation Greenhouse Emissions Leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Satellite Images
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APL scientists have leveraged the global coverage of satellite imagery and the strengths of machine learning to create the first automated approach for estimating greenhouse gas emissions from the road transportation sector.

Newswise: The Human Touch: Johns Hopkins APL Engineers Develop Tech Usability Standards
Released: 19-Jul-2022 4:20 PM EDT
The Human Touch: Johns Hopkins APL Engineers Develop Tech Usability Standards
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A new technology’s value depends on whether people can actually use it. APL engineers played key roles in developing a Human Readiness Level scale, designed to indicate a system’s readiness for use by humans.

Newswise: APL-Led Study Culminates in Development of Long Range Discrimination Radar
Released: 16-Jun-2022 3:40 PM EDT
APL-Led Study Culminates in Development of Long Range Discrimination Radar
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Years of JHU-APL engineering and technical leadership for the Missile Defense Agency Ground Sensors Directorate culminated last December as Lockheed Martin built and installed the multi-mission Long Range Discrimination Radar at Clear Space Force Station, Alaska.

Newswise: Johns Hopkins APL Developing Standards to Enable Better Brain Analysis
Released: 2-Jun-2022 5:05 PM EDT
Johns Hopkins APL Developing Standards to Enable Better Brain Analysis
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APL researchers are standardizing an amazing collection of high-resolution brain mapping data, an effort that would enable unprecedented analysis and make the Laboratory a focal point for neuroscience research.

   
Newswise: Howard County, Johns Hopkins APL Join Forces to Leverage Smart City Innovation in Gateway District
Released: 13-May-2022 1:15 PM EDT
Howard County, Johns Hopkins APL Join Forces to Leverage Smart City Innovation in Gateway District
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APL is bringing its expertise in public health, artificial intelligence, autonomous systems and climate change into a collaboration with the Howard County Economic Development Authority to incorporate smart and connected community concepts within the county’s Gateway District.

Released: 23-Mar-2022 12:05 PM EDT
Johns Hopkins APL Analyzing Designs, Materials and Operational Impact of Large Structures to One Day Be Built in Space
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

APL is analyzing application scenarios for large structures manufactured in space, a capability to be enabled by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency NOM4D program.

Released: 14-Mar-2022 1:35 PM EDT
Comet 67P’s Abundant Oxygen More of an Illusion, New Study Suggests
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When the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft discovered abundant molecular oxygen bursting from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P) in 2015, it puzzled scientists. They had never seen a comet emit oxygen, let alone in such abundance. But most alarming were the deeper implications: that researchers had to account for so much oxygen, which meant reconsidering everything they thought they already knew about the chemistry of the early solar system and how it formed. A new analysis, however, led by planetary scientist Adrienn Luspay-Kuti at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, shows Rosetta’s discovery may not be as strange as scientists first imagined.

Newswise: Johns Hopkins APL Names Former Under Secretary of Defense James N. Miller as Assistant Director for Policy and Analysis
Released: 28-Jan-2022 1:50 PM EST
Johns Hopkins APL Names Former Under Secretary of Defense James N. Miller as Assistant Director for Policy and Analysis
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Dr. James N. Miller, former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and an expert in nuclear deterrence, missile defense, cyber conflict and space policy, has been named as the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory’s (APL) Assistant Director for Policy and Analysis.

Released: 26-Jul-2021 10:25 AM EDT
Finer Flaws: Exploring the Advantages of Defects in Laser Manufactured Materials
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

APL researchers set out to better understand the influence of different defects on the mechanical performance of additively manufactured materials. In a recent journal article, they provide data to help understand the effects of defects and enable decision-making.

Released: 22-Jul-2021 3:55 PM EDT
Johns Hopkins APL, Amazon Partner to Accelerate Access to High-Res Brain Mapping Data
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

An expanded collaboration between APL and the Amazon Web Services' Open Data Sponsorship Program will further enable the storage and accessibility of ever-expanding neuroimaging datasets generated by the neuroscience research community.

   
Released: 25-Jun-2021 12:50 PM EDT
Brain-Computer Interface Enables Johns Hopkins Study Participant to Touch and Feel Holographic Objects
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As part of a larger study exploring neural multiplexing and new modes of perception enabled by brain-computer interface (BCI), Johns Hopkins researchers have demonstrated the ability to “feel” virtual objects by integrating neural stimulation in a mixed-reality environment.

Released: 16-Apr-2021 11:45 AM EDT
Super Sticky: Johns Hopkins APL Creates Strong, Fast, Waterproof Adhesive
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APL created an additive to turn commercial glue into a rapidly curing underwater adhesive that is effective on a range of surfaces, including aluminum, stainless steel, glass and plastic. The adhesive performed best on untreated aluminum surfaces with a high bonding strength of approximately 400 pounds in 60 seconds.

Released: 14-Dec-2020 4:50 PM EST
Quadriplegic Patient Uses Brain Signals to Feed Himself with Two Advanced Prosthetic Arms
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Almost two years into a research study conducted by Johns Hopkins APL and Johns Hopkins Medicine, a quadriplegic patient can now control two robotic arms with his brain — and can even feed himself.

   
Released: 7-Dec-2020 2:15 PM EST
Enhanced Phantom Limb Perception Improves Prosthesis Function, Study Finds
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

In exploring ways to make it easier for users to control a prosthesis, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), in Laurel, Maryland, found that giving them sensory stimulation enhances the perception of their phantom hand and leads to more reliable and repeatable muscle movement signals, which are used to control a prosthetic arm. Their most recent findings, “Sensory Stimulation Enhances Phantom Limb Perception and Movement Decoding,” were published in the Journal of Neural Engineering.

   
Released: 4-Dec-2020 8:20 AM EST
New Cyber Defense Feed Protects Government Systems in Live Trial Across Four States
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

A new automated data feed that helps defend state and local government computer systems from cyberattacks and rapidly blocks threats across state lines reduced cyber defense time from some three days to less than three minutes in a successful pilot program across four states.

Released: 3-Nov-2020 5:50 PM EST
Second Annual National Health Symposium Event Summary Available
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

The event summary for the second annual National Health Symposium, organized by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, is now available.

   
Released: 28-Aug-2020 12:20 PM EDT
APL and the Intelligence Community Tackle Malware in the Age of AI
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APL scientists are working with the intelligence community to develop fundamentally new methods to inspect artificial intelligence for Trojans — vulnerabilities that deep networks are exposed to during the AI training process.

Released: 29-Jul-2020 9:00 AM EDT
Johns Hopkins APL Ranked No. 3 on Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators List
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The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory secured the No. 3 spot on Fast Company’s 2020 Best Workplaces for Innovators list — marking the second consecutive year that APL appeared among businesses and organizations around the globe honored for demonstrating a deep commitment to encouraging innovation at all levels.

Released: 17-Jul-2020 4:35 PM EDT
Johns Hopkins APL Flexes Rapid Prototyping Muscles, Impacts Navy
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The story of how the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) turned a three-year air and missile defense prototyping plan into a working version in just 12 months is a tale of collaboration, innovation, and intelligent risk-taking.

Released: 11-Jun-2020 3:05 PM EDT
MESSENGER Data show How Spacecraft could end Neutron Lifetime Stalemate
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Now, a team of researchers from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, and Durham University in England has provided a way that could end the decades-long stalemate. Using data from NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft, the team shows that the lifetime of a neutron can be measured from space. The findings were reported June 11 in the journal Physical Review Research.

Released: 7-Jun-2020 10:10 PM EDT
Johns Hopkins APL, NASA Upgrade Global Search and Rescue System
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NASA may be best known for focusing on what’s beyond Earth’s atmosphere, but the agency also has another role — searching for human life on our home planet, especially when those lives are in danger. Staff members from the Air and Missile Defense Sector at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory are working with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and its partners to upgrade NASA’s Search and Rescue system.

   
Released: 5-May-2020 3:05 PM EDT
Johns Hopkins APL Delivers Prototype Defense Planning and Assessment Tool to USS Bunker Hill
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Last summer, the captain of the USS Bunker Hill offered to test an APL air-defense tool if the Lab could provide a prototype before the ship deployed in six months. When the Bunker Hill left San Diego in January, the tool was onboard — and Lab engineers now await valuable warfighter feedback on its use.

Released: 30-Mar-2020 10:40 AM EDT
Johns Hopkins APL-Developed Health Surveillance Tool Augments Nation’s COVID-19 Response
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A public health electronic surveillance tool developed by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, is helping to fill gaps by tracking the COVID-19’s spread symptomatically.

   
Released: 23-Mar-2020 4:20 PM EDT
Johns Hopkins APL Biologists Sequencing Genome of the Virus Causing COVID-19
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Inside the molecular diagnostics laboratory at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore two biologists from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) are working alongside them. Peter Thielen and Tom Mehoke, members of APL’s Research and Exploratory Development Department, are waiting for the positive tests. Certainly, positive tests are no cause for celebration; but for Thielen and Mehoke, they are an invaluable sample — and a key to learning more about the rapidly spreading virus.

Released: 30-Jan-2020 6:05 PM EST
Saving the Planet, One Drop at a Time
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Scientists at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), in Laurel, Maryland, have identified highly absorbent materials that can extract drinkable water out of thin air – which could potentially lead to technologies that supply potable water in the driest areas on the planet.

Released: 2-Dec-2019 2:30 PM EST
Johns Hopkins APL Takes 3D Printing of Electronic Parts to the Next Level
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Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), in Laurel, Maryland, have demonstrated a novel and groundbreaking way to additively print gallium nitride (GaN) — a material that can be used to produce semiconductor power devices as well as radio-frequency components and light-emitting diodes – using a combination of liquid and gas. Their work was detailed in "A pathway to compound semiconductor additive manufacturing," published recently in the journal MRS Communications.

Released: 13-Nov-2019 1:20 PM EST
Former Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson Is Named Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
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Admiral John M. Richardson, former Chief of Naval Operations, has joined the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory as a Senior Fellow. Admiral Richardson served as the 31st Chief of Naval Operations from September 2015 to August 2019.

Released: 17-Oct-2019 2:45 PM EDT
Johns Hopkins APL’s Breakthrough Flexible, Cuttable Lithium-Ion Battery Now Won’t Catch Fire
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A team of researchers from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, has realized another landmark achievement with their breakthrough lithium-ion battery technology. The flexible Li-ion battery that can operate under extreme conditions — including cutting, submersion and simulated ballistic impact — can now also add incombustible to its resume.

Released: 16-Oct-2019 12:05 PM EDT
In a First, Patient Controls Two Prosthetic Arms with His Thoughts
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory and School of Medicine have, for the first time, demonstrated simultaneous control of two of the world’s most advanced prosthetic limbs through a brain-machine interface. The team is also developing strategies for providing sensory feedback for both hands at the same time using neural stimulation.

Released: 16-Sep-2019 11:05 AM EDT
Tough Errors Are No Match for APL Team Exploring Quantum Science
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), in Laurel, Maryland, has been tapped by the Department of Energy to develop advanced quantum computing and networking technologies. The award is part of larger DOE effort to address basic research gaps in the ideas, methods and tools that connect quantum computing applications to hardware.

Released: 7-Aug-2019 4:00 PM EDT
Johns Hopkins APL Named to Fast Company’s Inaugural Best Workplaces for Innovators List
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The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, has been named to the inaugural Fast Company Best Workplaces for Innovators list. APL’s history of solving tough technical problems dates back to 1942, when the Laboratory developed a variable timing fuze that revolutionized air defense and helped turn the tide of World War II. Today, the Lab’s work spans from deep sea to deep space, encompassing complex systems vital to national security and health, including breakthroughs in machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Released: 24-Jun-2019 12:05 PM EDT
Operating at the Speed of Thought
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

With a recent award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, researchers from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, will develop a brain-machine interface that will enable the control of complex systems at the speed of thought.

Released: 13-Jun-2019 11:05 AM EDT
Hopkins Researchers Release Tool to Enable Better Health Care
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), in Laurel, Maryland, and Johns Hopkins Medicine have launched the Precision Medicine Analytics Platform (PMAP), a new data analytics tool that will facilitate big-data research across the JHU enterprise and enable clinicians to make discoveries and improve their patient care.

Released: 25-Apr-2019 12:05 PM EDT
Cool Tool Could Enable Quantum Computers to Tackle More Complex Applications
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

In a paper published in Nature Scientific Reports, APL researchers describe a way to manipulate the critical elements of a quantum computer and their control components that will be an important piece of scaling quantum computer systems to the larger sizes needed for more complex applications.

Released: 12-Dec-2018 11:15 AM EST
How Can the U.S. Call Upon Its Strengths as It Looks Forward to an Uncertain Future?
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

“A Preface to Strategy: The Foundations of American National Security,” a new paper from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory’s Senior Fellows, examines the nation’s core strengths and how they should shape new strategies.

Released: 6-Dec-2018 3:05 PM EST
APL, Collaborators Launch World’s Largest Neuroscience Data Repository
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Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, collaborating with scientists from Johns Hopkins University and many other universities and research organizations

Released: 2-Oct-2018 3:05 PM EDT
Do Robot Swarms Work Like Brains?
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

New Johns Hopkins study explores navigation similarities between the mind and robot swarms

   
Released: 4-Sep-2018 2:05 PM EDT
Drafting Emergency Orders to Defend America’s Electric Grid
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

A new paper from Johns Hopkins APL Senior Fellow Dr. Paul Stockton examines how power companies can partner with the Department of Energy to defeat attacks on the U.S. electric system.

   
Released: 13-Aug-2018 1:05 PM EDT
Parker Solar Probe Launches on Historic Journey to Touch the Sun
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Hours before the rise of the very star it will study, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe launched from Florida Sunday, Aug. 12, to begin its journey to the Sun

Released: 28-Jun-2018 12:05 PM EDT
Johns Hopkins Research Points to Increasing Role of Artificial Intelligence in Medical Imaging and Diagnostics
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, and collaborators at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, have developed image analysis and machine learning tools to detect age-related macular degeneration, and report in Nature Medicine that such tools can be applied to other image-based medical diagnoses.

Released: 6-Jun-2018 4:05 PM EDT
APL’s Air and Missile Defense Sector Sponsors Charity “Book Battle” to Support Local Children
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Staff members from the Air and Missile Defense Sector (AMDS) at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, have collected more than 15,000 books for children living below the poverty line in the local area.

Released: 4-Apr-2018 11:00 AM EDT
Send Your Name to the Sun Aboard Parker Solar Probe
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe — designed, built and managed by Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) — will launch in summer 2018 and travel to our star on a historic mission to “touch the Sun.” Now you can get on board and be a part of this voyage of extreme exploration.


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