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Johns Hopkins APL and Intuitive Machines Advance the Nation’s Cislunar Communications and Navigation

Since formalizing a partnership last fall, APL and Intuitive Machines have made marked progress toward building ...
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Johns Hopkins APL Names Watkins First Chief Mission Engineering and Integration Officer

In the newly created role of APL chief mission engineering and integration officer, Christopher R. Watkins will lead efforts ...
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Johns Hopkins APL and Microsoft’s AI Agent Orchestrates Robotic Teams

APL and Microsoft recently demonstrated an AI agent that can coordinate heterogeneous robot teams using large language models ...
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Stadter Named Mission Area Executive for Theater Defense at Johns Hopkins APL

Patrick Stadter has been appointed mission area executive for Theater Defense within the Air and Missile Defense Sector at ...
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AI Reveals New Way to Strengthen Titanium Alloys and Speed Up Manufacturing

Producing high-performance titanium alloy parts — whether for spacecraft, submarines or medical devices — has long been a slow, resource-intensive process. Even with advanced metal 3D-printing ...
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NASA’s Webb Telescope Reveals an Exoplanet Atmosphere in ‘Once Impossible’ Detail

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is dazzling scientists yet again, this time not with stunning images of the cosmos but instead with the first comprehensive list of molecular ingredients in the ...
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‘We Had to Get This Right’: How Johns Hopkins Built the Coronavirus Tracking Global Dashboard: An Oral History

Rumblings of a mysterious new virus impacting the region of Wuhan, China, began making the news rounds in the U.S. starting in early 2020. At the time, the virus seemed like a distant worry — too far ...
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A New Path to Noninvasive Brain-Computer Interface

Controlling a computer with your mind was once pure science fiction, but it’s now plausible thanks to brain-computer interface (BCI) technology. Today’s BCI systems have achieved extraordinary ...
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Zibi Turtle: Titan of Exploration

The elevator doors dinged open as Zibi Turtle took a breath, and then a step. It was, quite possibly, the final moment of quiet she’d have for some time. When her feet hit the tile floor in the lobby ...