![Patrick Gibbons](/sites/default/files/2023-02/GibbonsPortrait.jpg)
Press Release
Aug 28, 2013
Patrick Gibbons Joins Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory as Chief Communications Officer
Patrick Gibbons has joined the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., as chief communications officer.
![Pictured is the central peak of Bullialdus rising above the crater floor with the crater wall in the background.](/sites/default/files/2023-02/20130826_image.jpg)
Press Release
Aug 26, 2013
Scientists Detect Magmatic Water on Moon’s Surface
Scientists have detected magmatic water — water that originates from deep within the Moon’s interior — on the surface of the Moon.
![APL inventor Chris Brown holds mini-MACSS](/sites/default/files/2023-02/130822_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Aug 22, 2013
Johns Hopkins APL, Howard County Economic Development Authority Form Tech Transfer Partnership
The partners seek to create new companies and accelerate commercialization of targeted technologies, many developed at APL for government use. Together, APL and HCEDA will identify inventions they believe have the best chance of commercial success.
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Press Release
Aug 19, 2013
Former Defense Department Executive Christine Fox Joins Applied Physics Lab’s National Security Analysis Team
Christine Fox, who until recently served as Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (CAPE) in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, has joined the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., as a principal technical advisor.
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Press Release
Aug 14, 2013
Researchers Discover Quantum Algorithm That Could Improve Stealth Fighter Design
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) have devised a quantum algorithm for solving big linear systems of equations.
![C/2012 S1 (Comet ISON)](/sites/default/files/2023-02/ison-colormontage-v5.jpg)
Press Release
Jul 23, 2013
NASA’s Spitzer Observes Gas Emission from Comet ISON
Astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have observed what most likely are strong carbon dioxide emissions from Comet ISON ahead of its anticipated pass through the inner solar system later this year.
![How NASA Space Assets Will Observe Comet ISON](/sites/default/files/2023-02/ISON_Assets_full.jpg)
Press Release
Jul 15, 2013
Comet ISON Observer’s Workshop Set for Aug. 1–2
A workshop will be held at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., on Aug. 1–2, 2013, to maximize the scientific opportunities and data gathered during the upcoming visit to our solar system by Comet ISON.
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Press Release
Jul 1, 2013
Johns Hopkins APL Releases Open-Source Electronic Disease Surveillance Software
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC) have released the Suite for Automated Global Electronic bioSurveillance (SAGES), a collection of flexible, open-source software products developed for electronic disease surveillance in all settings.
![This artist's concept shows NASA's two Voyager spacecraft exploring a turbulent region of space known as the heliosheath](/sites/default/files/2023-02/PIA17033.jpg)
Press Release
Jun 27, 2013
At the Solar System’s Edge, More Surprises from NASA’s Voyager
Data from NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft continue to provide new insight on the outskirts of our solar system, a frontier thought to be the last that Voyager will cross before becoming the first man-made object to reach interstellar space.
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Press Release
May 22, 2013
Johns Hopkins APL Researchers Receive Best Medical Paper Award at International Robotics Conference
Mike Kutzer and Mehran Armand, of APL’s Research and Exploratory Development Department, along with postdoctoral fellow Matt Moses and Johns Hopkins graduate student Hans Ma, won for “A Continuum Manipulator Made of Interlocking Fibers,” covering their work on a novel approach to continuum manipulators with controllable stiffness.