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Novel Coating Technology Withstands Extreme Combustion Environments

Scientists at Johns Hopkins APL successfully tested an innovative chemical destruction system known as the Pulse Combustion ...
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Johns Hopkins APL Contributions Fuel Critical Navy Cybersecurity System

A Navy-engineered cybersecurity system infused with APL innovation, called Situational Awareness, Boundary Enforcement, and ...
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Johns Hopkins APL’s Watkins Receives NDIA’s 2026 Vice Adm. Charles E. Weakley Award

Christopher Watkins, chief mission engineering and integration officer at APL, received the 2026 Vice Admiral Charles E.
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Johns Hopkins APL Engineer Newman Inducted as Military Sensing Symposia Fellow

Andrew Newman, an engineer at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, was inducted as a fellow of the Military Sensing Symposia during the 2025 National Security Sensor ...
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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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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 ...
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Johns Hopkins APL Plays Key Role in Japan Missile Defense Flight Test Success

The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland — in cooperation with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) — played a key role ...
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Johns Hopkins Team Breaks Through Quantum Noise

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore have achieved a breakthrough in quantum noise characterization in ...
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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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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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Researchers Use Quantum Biology to Understand Human Response to Earth’s Magnetic Field

Shortly after Max Planck shook the scientific world with ideas about the fundamental quantization of energy, researchers built and leveraged theories of quantum mechanics to resolve physical phenomena ...
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Amputee Makes Music with the Modular Prosthetic Limb

In 2018, Johnny Matheny became the first person to take home the world’s most advanced Modular Prosthetic Limb (MPL) — developed by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, ...