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NASA Selects Johns Hopkins APL-Developed CINEMA Mission to Study Space Weather

CINEMA, a mission to improve understanding of the growing impacts of space weather, has been competitively selected by NASA ...
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Computerworld Names Johns Hopkins APL to 2026 List of Best Places to Work in IT

For the eighth consecutive year, APL appears on Computerworld’s Best Places to Work in IT list, which recognizes the top ...
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Johns Hopkins APL and Microsoft’s AI Agent Orchestrates Robotic Teams

APL and Microsoft recently demonstrated an AI agent that can coordinate heterogeneous robot teams using large language models ...
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Johns Hopkins APL and Intuitive Machines Advance the Nation’s Cislunar Communications and Navigation

Since formalizing a partnership last fall, APL and Intuitive Machines have made marked progress toward building ...
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Johns Hopkins APL Names Watkins First Chief Mission Engineering and Integration Officer

In the newly created role of APL chief mission engineering and integration officer, Christopher R. Watkins will lead efforts ...
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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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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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‘We Had to Get This Right’: How Johns Hopkins Built the Coronavirus Tracking Global Dashboard: An Oral History

Rumblings of a mysterious new virus impacting the region of Wuhan, China, began making the news rounds in the U.S. starting in early 2020. At the time, the virus seemed like a distant worry — too far ...
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A New Path to Noninvasive Brain-Computer Interface

Controlling a computer with your mind was once pure science fiction, but it’s now plausible thanks to brain-computer interface (BCI) technology. Today’s BCI systems have achieved extraordinary ...