Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

A Pint of Hope: Developing a Shelf-Stable Blood Substitute

Johns Hopkins APL researchers are investigating the viability and scalability of shelf-stable, freeze-dried red blood cells.
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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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Projects and Missions

Sailors aboard the USS Bataan turned the additive manufacturing at sea concept into reality after successfully fabricating and installing a stainless steel sprayer plate to repair the USS Bataan’s ...
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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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Shape-Shifting Antenna Poised to Transform Communications

The shape of an antenna’s front end dictates many of its operating parameters. Once it’s manufactured, those characteristics are locked in. A shape-changing antenna would enable communications across ...
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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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Johns Hopkins Scientists Leverage AI to Discover Climate ‘Tipping Points’

Climate tipping points have become a source of growing concern, particularly among policymakers and scientists. They are critical thresholds that, once crossed, could “tip” a natural climate system ...
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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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Parker Solar Probe Team Hears First Whispers of the Solar Wind’s Birth

There’s a wind that emanates from the Sun, and it blows not like a soft whistle but like a hurricane’s scream. Made of electrons, protons and heavier ions, the solar wind courses through the solar ...
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Johns Hopkins APL Director Emeritus Semmel Elected to the National Academy of Engineering

Ralph Semmel, director emeritus of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Semmel was recognized for his ...
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Scientists May Have Solved Decades-Old Mysteries About the Origins of the Solar Wind

Scientists with NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission think they have discovered the processes that give birth to streams of charged particles — called the solar wind — released from the Sun’s corona, or ...
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Johns Hopkins APL Restores Cold Sensation in Amputees’ Phantom Limbs

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 ...