![Christine Fox and Thayer Scott](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20200910b_image1_cover.jpg)
Press Release
Sep 10, 2020
COVID-19 and World Order: The Future of Conflict, Competition, and Cooperation
The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly impacted global public health and the world economy, but its consequences potentially go much further — threatening democratic values and the fabric of national and international politics.
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Press Release
Sep 8, 2020
Johns Hopkins APL, Medicine Researchers Apply Data Fusion to Improve Breast Cancer Detection
Researchers at APL are collaborating with radiologists from Johns Hopkins Medicine to develop an upstream data fusion (UDF) method — leveraging artificial intelligence — that promises to significantly improve the accuracy of breast cancer screening.
![The result of a leaf segmentation algorithm showing identified leaves in green overlaid on a rendering of an original X-ray computed tomography scan](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20200904_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Sep 4, 2020
Johns Hopkins APL Researchers Plant Ideas for Building Better Biological Sensors
In a recent article in Plant Phenome Journal, APL scientists describe the development of a method for scanning plants without destroying them — using computerized tomography — to collect data on how they grow, and the creation of an algorithm to extract important plant-response metrics.
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News
Aug 28, 2020
Dragonfly, Titan and the Search for Our Origins: APL Planetary Scientist Zibi Turtle at TED2020
Elizabeth “Zibi” Turtle was a main stage speaker at TED2020, delivering a talk on Saturn’s moon Titan and the revolutionary mission, Dragonfly, that APL is building for NASA’s New Frontiers program to explore the ocean world.
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Press Release
Aug 28, 2020
AI Bests Human Fighter Pilot in AlphaDogfight Trial at Johns Hopkins APL
In a matchup of human versus machine, the decisive winner was Heron Systems’ artificial intelligence against an experienced human F-16 fighter pilot in a simulated aerial battle that capped the AlphaDogfight Trials (ADT) on Aug. 20 at APL.
![Demonstration of machine-vision Trojan](/sites/default/files/2023-01/Cover_Demo_Object_Detection.jpg)
Press Release
Aug 28, 2020
APL and the Intelligence Community Tackle Malware in the Age of AI
APL scientists are working with the intelligence community to develop fundamentally new methods to inspect artificial intelligence for Trojans — vulnerabilities that deep networks are exposed to during the AI training process.
![Coughlin Crater on Pluto](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20200827b_image1_cover.jpg)
News
Aug 27, 2020
Pluto Crater Named for New Horizons Pathfinder Tom Coughlin
In the early 2000s, Johns Hopkins APL’s Tom Coughlin shepherded the fledging New Horizons mission from early design through flight confirmation. Two decades later, the mission team is honoring Coughlin with a tribute on Pluto, the world New Horizons was built to explore.
![Johns Hopkins APL molecular biologist Peter Thielen prepares a handheld DNA sequencer for operation at the molecular diagnostics laboratory at Johns Hopkins Hospital in late March.](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20200815_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Aug 15, 2020
Johns Hopkins Researchers Retrace COVID-19 Introduction and Impact in D.C. Region
A study from scientists across Johns Hopkins University and Health System who’ve sequenced the genome of SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19, points to multiple entries of the virus into the National Capital Region, but similar clinical presentation, indicating that — despite small genetic differences — circulating viruses are likely causing identical disease.
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News
Aug 14, 2020
New Simulations Unravel Mystery Behind Aurora’s ‘String of Pearls’
Using novel computer models and some of the world’s largest supercomputers, researchers in the APL-led Center for Geospace Storms have unraveled a longstanding mystery of why the aurora sometimes takes the shape of beads in the sky, and whether they portend magnetic mayhem in the near future.
![An artist’s concept from 1969 depicts a lunar module descending to the Moon’s surface. Because of the Moon's very thin atmosphere, the exhaust expands significantly and can remain in the atmosphere for months. Credit: NASA/Johnson Space Center](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20200813_image3_lg.jpg)
News
Aug 13, 2020
Simulations Show Lander Exhaust Could Cloud Studies of Lunar Ices
Renewed efforts to put humans on the Moon could eventually lead to more landers touching down on the lunar surface. But a new study led by Johns Hopkins APL scientists shows exhaust from such landers can quickly spread and potentially contaminate scientifically valuable ices near the Moon’s poles.