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The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), with help from The Boeing Company and Iridium Communications Inc., has successfully implemented a new system to monitor Earth’s space environment.

Officials from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), along with government and construction industry representatives, broke ground July 16 for a new spacecraft assembly and testing facility on the APL campus in Laurel, Md.

Analysis of data from MESSENGER’s third and final flyby of Mercury in September 2009 has revealed the first observations of emission from an ionized species in Mercury’s exosphere, new information about magnetic substorms, and evidence of younger volcanism on the innermost planet than previously recognized.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded a contract for up to $34.5 million to The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., to manage the development and testing of the Modular Prosthetic Limb (MPL) system on human subjects, using a brain-controlled interface.

A phase in the early history of Mars with conditions favorable to life occurred globally rather than just in the south, new findings from the north suggest.

Dr. Ralph D. Semmel, who currently oversees a variety of research and development activities at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, has been selected to lead the Laboratory as its next director.

Scientists have assembled the first global geological map of Ganymede and, in doing so, have gathered new evidence into the formation of the solar system’s largest moon.

Infusion pumps are ever-present in nearly every health care setting, providing critical fluids to patients, including insulin to diabetics, liquid food to patients unable to eat, chemotherapy medication to cancer patients and anesthetics via epidurals to women giving birth.

A Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory scientist is shattering theories that asteroids are just barren chunks of space rock.

A method to quickly determine whether potentially harmful microbes are resistant to certain drugs has been named the year’s top invention at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.