![Pluto](/sites/default/files/2023-02/20151015_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Oct 15, 2015
New Horizons Team Publishes First Research Paper in Science, Describing Numerous Pluto System Findings
From Pluto’s unusual heart-shaped region to its extended atmosphere and intriguing moons, New Horizons has revealed a degree of diversity and complexity in the Pluto system that few expected in the frigid outer reaches of the solar system.
![Emergency alert](/sites/default/files/2023-02/20151007_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Oct 7, 2015
New Emergency Alert Technology Could Fine-Tune Warnings for Smartphones
Smartphones — owned by a record 64 percent of American adults — are increasingly used as effective means to deliver emergency alerts issued by state and federal agencies.
![These dark, narrow, 100-meter-long streaks called recurring slope lineae flowing downhill on Mars are inferred to have been formed by contemporary flowing water.](/sites/default/files/2023-02/20150928_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Sep 28, 2015
NASA Confirms Evidence That Liquid Water Flows on Today’s Mars
New findings from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) — including data from the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM), built and operated by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland — provide the strongest evidence yet that liquid water flows intermittently on present-day Mars.
![Artist's depiction of the TIMED spacecraft](/sites/default/files/2023-02/20150917_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Sep 17, 2015
TIMED Mission Celebrates 5,000 Days of Continuous Data Collection, Sixth Extended Mission
The NASA TIMED (Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics) spacecraft, which studies the impact of solar- and human-induced disturbances on Earth’s upper atmosphere, celebrated 5,000 days of continuous data collection on Aug. 15.
![Sensor suite](/sites/default/files/2023-02/20150909.jpg)
Press Release
Sep 9, 2015
APL–Stanford Team Uncovers Internal Temperature Maximum and Offers Path Toward Safer Fast-Charging of Lithium-Ion Batteries
A team from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and Stanford University took an important step toward safer and faster charging of lithium-ion batteries by advancing the capability for dynamic, noninvasive internal temperature measurement.
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Press Release
Sep 1, 2015
Johns Hopkins APL, Wilmer Eye Institute to Develop Tools to Detect Age-Related Macular Degeneration
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and the Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute have received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop image analysis and machine-learning tools to detect age-related macular degeneration.
![Xiomara Calderón-Colón, Gina Marshall-Johnson, and Deanna Green](/sites/default/files/2023-02/20150824.jpg)
Press Release
Aug 24, 2015
APL Staff Members to Receive Women of Color Technology Awards
Three staff members from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory will receive 2015 Women of Color Technology Awards for their accomplishments in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)-related fields.
![New Horizons Flight Controllers celebrate after spacecraft confirms flyby of Pluto](/sites/default/files/2023-02/20150720_PhoneHome.jpg)
Press Release
Jul 20, 2015
NASA’s New Horizons ‘Phones Home’ Safe after Pluto Flyby
The call everyone was waiting for is in. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft phoned home just before 9 p.m. EDT Tuesday to tell the mission team and the world it had accomplished the historic first-ever flyby of Pluto.
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Media Advisory
Jul 16, 2015
Explore Pluto and NASA’s Historic New Horizons Mission at Plutopalooza at Johns Hopkins APL
Join us to celebrate the recent New Horizons Pluto flyby at Plutopalooza on Saturday, July 18, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
![Lisa Blodgett](/sites/default/files/2023-02/150713_lg.jpg.jpg)
Press Release
Jul 13, 2015
Lisa Blodgett Selected to Lead Force Projection at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Lisa Blodgett has been named head of the Force Projection Sector at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.