![APL's unbreakable, flexible lithium-ion battery](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20200804_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Aug 4, 2020
Johns Hopkins APL Options Unbreakable Battery Technology to Longeviti Neuro Solutions
Johns Hopkins APL has entered into an option agreement with Maryland-based Longeviti Neuro Solutions, LLC, for use of the Lab’s unbreakable, flexible lithium-ion battery technology, which is uniquely suited to the type of innovative neuro devices Longeviti creates for complex brain surgeries.
![Image of the inside of an iron meteorite, showing the characteristic Widmanstätten pattern of long, iron-nickel crystals that crisscross one another. Many iron meteorites are thought to be vestiges of a planet’s core that was blasted apart early in our solar system’s evolution. Credit: Johns Hopkins APL](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20200803_image1_lg.jpg)
News
Aug 3, 2020
Iron Meteorite ‘Fingerprints’ Reveal New Details About Planet Formation
A new study that included Johns Hopkins APL planetary scientist Nancy Chabot reveals new details about iron meteorites and the formation of planets during the solar system’s youth, but it also highlights that scientists may currently be missing a large chunk of the meteorite record from these early planetary bodies.
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Press Release
Jul 29, 2020
Johns Hopkins APL Ranked No. 3 on Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators List
APL secured the No. 3 spot on Fast Company’s 2020 Best Workplaces for Innovators list — marking the second consecutive year that the Laboratory appeared among businesses and organizations around the globe honored for demonstrating a deep commitment to encouraging innovation at all levels.
![DART prototype image in space](/sites/default/files/2024-02/DART_Hero_8-20-20-cropped.jpeg)
News
Jul 23, 2020
A Mission with Impact
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) – NASA’s first in-space planetary defense demonstration – will get one chance to hit its target, the small moon in the binary asteroid system Didymos.
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Feature Story
Jul 23, 2020
Predicting the Unpredictable — The Dynamics of DART’s Dive Into an Asteroid
What will happen after NASA’s DART spacecraft finally collides with its target asteroid? With myriad potential outcomes, and little known about the asteroid, the answer seems almost impossible to determine. Yet modelers from Johns Hopkins APL are slowly narrowing the range of possibilities, and providing the tools that will be needed to defend Earth from a cataclysmic impact.
![Images taken 10 days apart compare air pollution in Tieling, China, in March 2019. A new proposed instrument will be able to track air pollution levels with unprecedented detail. Credit: Tomskyhaha, CC BY-SA 4.0](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20200722b_image2_lg.jpg)
News
Jul 22, 2020
New Space Instrument Technology Promises Unmatched Ability to Track Pollutants
Funded by NASA, Space Exploration Sector researchers are working on an instrument that will enable scientists to track and source air pollutants with unprecedented detail — an especially valuable tool as the unanticipated air-quality experiment of COVID-19 lockdowns gradually ends.
![A panel discussing technology, economics and climate in the post-COVID world](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20200722_image2_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Jul 22, 2020
JHU and Johns Hopkins APL Thought Leaders Talk Technology in a Post-COVID World
APL’s Assistant Director for Policy and Analysis Christine Fox joined several thought leaders across the Johns Hopkins enterprise in a two-day forum to discuss the world order after COVID-19, focusing specifically on technology, the internet, 5G and semiconductors.
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Press Release
Jul 20, 2020
APL Rides Again as a Bicycle Friendly Business
As cycling takes off around the globe, APL is again being recognized as a Bicycle Friendly Business by the League of American Bicyclists.
![Cerberus Project Manager Travis Heslop, center, and Derrick Treichler, a Cerberus technical lead, review designs and updates for the latest prototype. APL’s Cerberus project team laid out a three-year plan to design, build, field and iterate an advanced prototype. APL demonstrated an initial working version in just twelve months. Credit: Johns Hopkins APL](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20200714_image1_lg.jpg)
News
Jul 14, 2020
Johns Hopkins APL Flexes Rapid Prototyping Muscles, Impacts Navy
In late 2016, APL received a Missile Defense Agency (MDA) request to develop an advanced prototype of the next-generation mission planning tool, which MDA named Cerberus, in three years. APL demonstrated an initial working version in just twelve months.
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Press Release
Jul 14, 2020
Six From Johns Hopkins APL Earn Johns Hopkins Diversity Leadership Awards
Six staff members from APL are among this year’s recipients of Johns Hopkins Diversity Leadership Council Diversity Recognition Awards, which honor individuals and groups for their efforts to advance diversity and inclusion in the Johns Hopkins community.