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Jan 13, 2025
Merkle Named Research and Exploratory Development Department Head at Johns Hopkins APL
As head of the Research and Exploratory Development Department, Merkle will accelerate innovation and collaborate with APL’s sectors and mission areas to tackle mission-critical challenges.
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Jan 7, 2025
Nimble Cellular Networks Keep Tactical Users Connected
Johns Hopkins APL researchers are contributing to the development of a mobile cellular system that can be installed in a small uncrewed aerial vehicle to give warfighters and first responders communications connectivity in austere environments.
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Jan 6, 2025
Johns Hopkins APL Reaches Highest Mark for Intellectual Property Disclosures
APL staff members filed a record 564 intellectual property disclosures in fiscal year 2024, reinforcing the Laboratory’s strategic value to sponsors and the nation and demonstrating an initial return on the Laboratory’s multimillion-dollar investments in transforming novel ideas into real and impactful solutions.
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Jan 3, 2025
Johns Hopkins APL Modeling Tool Affirms Critical Role of Testing in Pandemic Response
APL has contributed to a new study in The Lancet Public Health that found that public-private partnerships to develop, produce and distribute COVID-19 diagnostic tests saved approximately 1.4 million lives and prevented an estimated 7 million patient hospitalizations in the U.S. during the pandemic.
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Dec 27, 2024
Parker Solar Probe Makes History With Closest Pass to the Sun
NASA’s mission to “touch” the Sun has confirmed that it survived its record-breaking closest approach to the Sun’s surface on Dec. 24. Breaking its previous record by flying just 3.8 million miles (around 6.1 million kilometers) above the surface of the Sun, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the solar atmosphere at a blazing 430,000 miles per hour (692,000 kilometers per hour) — faster than any human-made object has ever moved.
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