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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 ...
Optical Communications: History and a Look toward APL’s Future Contributions Cheryl A. Beard, Garret T. Bonnema, David W. Blodgett, David J. Copeland, Ryan G. Mennecke, Katherine T. Newell, Robert A.
As COVID-19 cases multiplied in early 2020, so too did the number of users turning to the Johns Hopkins University dashboard, which tracked global cases of COVID-19 in real time and quickly became the ...
Five years ago today, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft — designed, built and operated by Johns Hopkins APL — conducted the first close-up exploration of Pluto. Since then, scientists have uncovered ...
NASA’s Dragonfly mission team is moving on to the next stage of development on the revolutionary, car-sized nuclear-powered drone it plans to fly over and land on the organic-rich sands of Saturn’s ...
The Titan Chamber — the largest environmental simulator ever deployed on the campus of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland — is open for business. The team ...
Researchers from Johns Hopkins APL and the Johns Hopkins Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences are developing a modeling tool to predict climate “tipping points,” critical thresholds that, when ...
On their latest trip to NASA Langley, in June, the team set up a half-scale Dragonfly lander model, complete with eight rotors, in the 14-by-22 Subsonic Tunnel. Test lead Bernadine Juliano of APL said ...
Brendan Croom, a senior materials scientist at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, is pictured in APL’s X-ray Computed Tomography Laboratory, where high-resolution imaging helps researchers ...
On Nov. 6, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed its seventh and final Venus gravity-assist maneuver, passing within 240 miles (about 387 kilometers) of Venus’ surface. The flyby adjusted Parker’s ...
Artist’s impression of the Lunar Vertex rover on the surface of the Moon. Equipped with a magnetometer and microscopic camera, the solar-powered rover will leave the Lunar Vertex lander to explore up ...