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Quantum computers might be the key to developing everything from better materials to novel medical drugs, but they’re currently hampered by environmental noise. APL researchers are building the tools to overcome this problem by leveraging their expertise in a field that many here are quite familiar with: control theory.

APL scientists and engineers are assessing data from two experimental instruments flown into space aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket and crew capsule on Oct. 13.

Parker Solar Probe was at the right place at the right time to capture a unique view of comet NEOWISE on July 5, 2020.

It sounds like science fiction: fly a robotic rotorcraft over the dunes of an alien moon, scanning and sampling its organic sands in a search for the chemical building blocks of life. But a team led by APL scientists and engineers is turning this idea into space exploration reality.

With cutting-edge scientific instruments to measure the environment around the spacecraft, Parker Solar Probe – designed, built, and managed for NASA by Johns Hopkins APL – has completed six of 24 planned passes through never-before-explored parts of the Sun’s atmosphere, the corona.

In a paper recently published by Military Medicine, APL’s Adam Cohen and Sarah Herman join several co-authors to summarize the major concepts discussed at a gathering of military surgeons and propose a more effective approach to prolonged field care research.

Institute for Assured Autonomy Co-Director Cara LaPointe will lay out a holistic framework of the challenges of assured autonomy in a keynote address on October 8 at the annual conference of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International.

The first winner of the Archimedes Award, Wayne Sternberger, signed a licensing agreement with APL’s Tech Transfer Office for his newly formed company, BLOCKsynop, to begin commercializing a neural blockade monitor.

Imagine an airport security zone where there's no lines, no traditional scanner, no pat-down. It might sound like security measures have been seriously relaxed, but really, they are more effective than ever – and everyone even keeps their shoes on.

The annual APL Achievement Awards ceremony, held Tuesday, Sept. 8, highlighted the technical, innovative achievements of staff members from 2019. But it also presented a unique opportunity: to create a compelling interactive format for people to enjoy safely from the comfort of home.