What is Scalmalloy? Steven Storck, chief scientist of manufacturing technologies at APL, calls it “the sweet tea of aluminum” because the same process used to supersaturate sweet tea with sugar—heating it up—is used to supersaturate Scalmalloy with the element scandium.

APL’s Sabrina Lesser explains how the Laboratory is designing cost-effective cyberdefense technologies that are strong enough to repel serious cyberattacks but affordable enough to be purchased and easily implemented by the nation’s diverse water treatment plant operators. Many plants across the country are municipal operations plants with constrained budgets and—sometimes—an IT department of one.

The Environmental Protection Agency has declared PFAS an urgent public health and environmental issue facing communities across the United States. APL’s Leslie Hamilton explains how scientists from APL are developing technologies to capture and destroy these “forever chemicals.”

APL’s Ian Cohen explains the importance of understanding and predicting the Sun’s flares and mass ejections, which can halt Earth’s technosphere.

Did you know that environmental DNA (eDNA) can tell us so much about our surroundings? APL’s Hayley DeHart explains how eDNA is a powerful tool for environmental science, from enabling the detection of specific organisms like invasive species to understanding biodiversity.

APL’s David Handelman explains how emerging capabilities in artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and robotics might support collaborative intervention by teams of medics, AI-based virtual assistants, and autonomous robots.