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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe — humanity’s first mission to “touch” the Sun — has been named the 2018 innovation of the year by Popular Science.

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, collaborating with scientists from Johns Hopkins University and many other universities and research organizations, have launched the world’s largest and most diverse public neuroscience data repository.

Engineers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory have developed software that enables autonomous bomb-defusing robots to turn themselves back over, right side up, if they ever get flipped the wrong way.

Johns Hopkins APL earned first place overall and Election Forecaster honors in the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) Geopolitical Forecasting Challenge.

The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory has been honored with the Society of Women Engineers Mission and Best Practices awards.

Parker Solar Probe, designed, built and operated by Johns Hopkins APL, now holds two operational records for spacecraft, both of which it will repeatedly break during its seven-year mission to our star.

Engineers from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, in cooperation with the U.S. Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Navy sailors aboard the U.S.S. John Finn (DDG-113) played a key role in the successful live-fire intercept using the new Standard Missile-3 Block IIA guided missile during an October 26, 2018, flight test off the west coast of Hawaii.

The Cassini spacecraft had explored Saturn and its many moons over the course of 13 years, but despite having exceeded its original length and objectives, the historic NASA mission had one more act before its 2017 curtain call.

While health care has made great strides in recent years with the proliferation of electronic health records (EHRs), interoperability among health care technologies remains very limited, says a new National Academy of Medicine (NAM) special publication, co-chaired by Johns Hopkins APL National Health Mission Area (NHMA) Executive Sezin Palmer, patient safety advocate Peter Pronovost and Michael M. E. Johns of Emory University’s schools of Medicine and Public Health.