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A new study by the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (SOM) and Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) will combine research into navigational planning in brains with autonomous robotic swarms to drive advances in both fields.

Engineers with the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), in Laurel, Maryland, traveled on the USS Carl Vinson this summer to demonstrate light fidelity (Li-Fi), a next-generation secure mobile networking technology for wireless communication between devices using light to transmit data and position.

The first-ever mission to demonstrate an asteroid deflection technique for planetary defense has moved into the final design and assembly phase, following NASA’s approval on Aug. 16.

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has made its first detection of its next flyby target, the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule, more than four months ahead of its New Year’s 2019 close encounter.

Brad Wheaton and a team in the Precision Strike Mission Area of the Force Projection Sector are tackling a challenge that is critical to hypersonics: accurately predicting the state of the boundary layer, or the thin layer of air near the surface of these incredibly fast-moving vehicles.

As the U.S. Naval Academy awaits the opening of its Center for Cyber Security Studies — a $120-million, state-of-the-art training and education facility — several midshipmen are gaining real-world cyber experience as interns at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland.

Hours before the rise of the very star it will study, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe launched from Florida Sunday, Aug. 12, to begin its journey to the Sun, where it will undertake a landmark mission. The spacecraft will transmit its first science observations in December, beginning a revolution in our understanding of the star that makes life on Earth possible.

Health systems engineers from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, are working with the Navy to expand the role of Navy hospital corpsmen stateside and improve access to medical care for military members through a pilot program called Connected Corpsmen in the Community (CCC).

Nancy Chabot, a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, has been elected a Fellow of the Meteoritical Society. Chabot’s research involves understanding the evolution of rocky planetary bodies in the solar system.