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Johns Hopkins APL Develops Innovative Platform for Traumatic Brain Injury Research
A team of researchers from APL and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is developing next-generation brain ...
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Lunar Vertex - Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Lunar Vertex will be the first mission to carry out a comprehensive study of lunar magnetic anomaly and the associated swirl and mini-magnetosphere.
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Vol. 35, No. 4 (2021) | Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Creating Defining Innovations—Great Ideas Overcoming Inertia: Guest Editor’s Introduction Jerry A. Krill The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) has embarked on a decade-long ...
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‘We Had to Get This Right’: How Johns Hopkins Built the Coronavirus Tracking Global Dashboard: An Oral History - Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
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 ...
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Five Years After the Flyby, 10 Cool Things We Know About Pluto
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 ...
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NASA Authorizes Dragonfly Mission to Proceed With Estimated 2028 Launch Readiness Date - Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
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 ...
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NASA’s Webb Telescope Reveals an Exoplanet Atmosphere in ‘Once Impossible’ Detail - Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
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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Nano-engineered Thermoelectrics Enable Scalable, Compressor-Free Cooling
Researchers at Johns Hopkins APL, in collaboration with Samsung Research, have unveiled a breakthrough in solid-state cooling technology, doubling the efficiency of today’s commercial systems. Driven ...
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A New Path to Noninvasive Brain-Computer Interface
A new high-resolution neural recording method developed by Johns Hopkins APL and the School of Medicine detects neural activity through the skull at unprecedented resolutions, expanding possibilities ...
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Johns Hopkins Scientists Leverage AI to Discover Climate ‘Tipping Points’ - Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
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 ...
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Dragonfly Team Debuts Johns Hopkins APL’s Newest Environmental Test Chamber - Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
The Titan Chamber — APL’s largest environmental simulator — is open for business. The team developing NASA’s Dragonfly mission recently took the chamber for an opening run with a full-scale thermal ...