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Over 250 scientists, practitioners and policymakers recently gathered on Johns Hopkins APL’s campus for the Third National Workshop on Marine Environmental DNA to launch a new federal aquatic eDNA National Strategy, discuss state-of-the-art eDNA science, and identify implementation opportunities that will realize the full potential of eDNA as a tool to monitor aquatic ecosystems.

A new Johns Hopkins APL-led study using NASA’s Webb telescope suggests carbon dioxide and similar molecules on Uranus’ moon Ariel may be emerging from inside the moon, raising questions about the moon’s geologic activity and potential as an ocean world.

APL computational physicist and aerospace engineer Paul Burke will join some of the country’s most promising early-career engineers to discuss pioneering research and technical advancements at the National Academies Frontiers of Engineering Symposium.

APL researchers are accelerating multi-principal element alloy (MPEA) design by creating complex microstructures that provide composition information from only a few samples. The researchers developed a design capability to synthesize 17 unique MPEA compositions and present characterization data on over 7,000 unique data points.

APL Director Ralph D. Semmel has announced that he will step down from his role in July 2025, marking the conclusion of 15 remarkable years leading the nation’s largest university affiliated research center.

NASA has released a summary of the fifth iteration of a Planetary Defense U.S. Government Interagency Tabletop Exercise, which was held at APL in April. The two-day exercise brought together domestic and international leaders to discuss, coordinate and evaluate a global response to a simulated asteroid impact threat to Earth.

Johns Hopkins researchers have developed an innovative navigation system designed to help blind or visually impaired users of prosthetic vision devices by improving their independence and mobility through enhanced environmental awareness and navigation support.

A proposal in which APL played a critical role is among a group of three chosen by NASA to study space weather and how it links to Earth’s atmosphere.

Building on more than a decade of pushing the boundaries of what artificial intelligence can do in air combat, engineers and air combat specialists at Johns Hopkins APL have made significant progress in creating a copilot that will grant the power, speed and precision of machine computation to human fighter pilots.

Co-sponsored by Commander, Submarine Forces, and the Naval Submarine League and hosted by APL, the 36th annual Submarine Technology Symposium explored how technology developers are reacting to the evolving state of undersea and seabed warfare. Many speakers cited how, during the next few years and decades, the trilateral security agreement between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States — known as AUKUS — will counter the aggressive growth of undersea capabilities among adversaries.