The Lab
The Lab is a series of narrated audio news articles from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) that demonstrate APL’s groundbreaking contributions to solving many of the most complex research, engineering and analytical problems facing our nation. The Lab reveals how APL tackles increasingly difficult challenges with impacts across multiple domains from deep sea to deep space to cyber to biology and beyond by combining creativity and technical expertise with a culture of risk-taking. This audio was generated using AI voice technology.
Episodes
More than 600 participants from across the submarine force, allied nations, industry and academia gathered at Johns Hopkins APL for the 37th Submarine Technology Symposium. The symposium provided a forum for technical exchange and discussion under the theme “Lethality Today and Innovation for Tomorrow.”
Read the full article: https://jhuapl.link/83e
Johns Hopkins APL researchers are exploring ways to produce food on demand by using readily available water to grow edible microbial products — an effort that could have significant implications for deployed military.
Read the full article: https://jhuapl.link/1f5
APL researchers won a 2025 R&D 100 award for their nano-engineered materials called CHESS that significantly improve the efficiency of thermoelectric cooling devices. Their breakthrough nearly doubles the performance of traditional materials at room temperature, opening the way to much better cooling systems and energy-saving technologies.
Read the full article: https://jhuapl.link/3b3
A new startup, BIOPAC Medical Systems LP, has been launched to advance a novel neural blockade monitoring technology toward clinical use. The venture is a collaboration between APL, the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, BLOCKsynop, Inc., and BIOPAC Systems, Inc., and will pursue regulatory approval and commercial deployment of a device that provides real-time, objective evaluation of regional anesthetic effectiveness.
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Melissa Terlaje has been appointed chief government relations officer at APL. In this role, she will lead the Laboratory’s strategic engagements with government sponsors and stakeholders, ensuring APL’s critical contributions remain aligned with and continue to advance national priorities. Additionally, she will serve as board secretary for the Laboratory’s Board of Managers, which provides oversight of APL.
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APL researchers have demonstrated that a quantum algorithm can be used to speed up an information analysis task that classical computers struggle to perform.
Read the full article: https://jhuapl.link/06t
Revision 6.1 of the Modular Payload Design Standard, developed by a collaborative team of government and industry partners led by Johns Hopkins APL, marks a significant evolution in the way electronic warfare, signals intelligence and communications payloads are conceived, integrated and sustained across unmanned and dismounted platforms.
Read the full article: https://jhuapl.link/902
Starting as a one-day meeting on the Johns Hopkins APL campus in 2020, the Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium has since become a catalyst for technical collaboration and a driving force in the nation’s return to the Moon.
Read the full article: https://jhuapl.link/ef5
NASA’s Relativistic Electron Atmospheric Loss (REAL) spacecraft, developed and managed by Johns Hopkins APL, launched successfully from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on July 23. The CubeSat mission will investigate the mysterious forces that can cause energetic particles to fall from Earth’s radiation belts, posing a threat to orbiting infrastructure.
Read the full article: https://jhuapl.link/32d
A team of researchers from APL and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is developing next-generation brain organoid platforms to better understand the effects of mild blast-induced traumatic brain injuries caused by repeated low-level blasts.
Read the full article: https://jhuapl.link/026
APL is working with the Naval Sea Systems Command to prove that additive manufacturing can consistently deliver mission-critical components, reducing logistics delays and enhancing fleet readiness.
Read the full article: https://jhuapl.link/3df
For nearly a decade, Johns Hopkins APL and Blue Canyon Technologies have collaborated on agile, reliable space solutions for government sponsors, enabling faster and more cost-effective space missions across civil space and national security sectors.
Read the full article: https://jhuapl.link/e42
As NASA prepares to commercialize satellite relay services, APL engineers are developing an effective and efficient way for spacecraft to relay data and communicate in low Earth orbit.
Read the full article: https://jhuapl.link/6ca
On its record-breaking pass by the Sun late last year, the Johns Hopkins APL-built Parker Solar Probe captured stunning images from within the Sun’s atmosphere. Taken closer to the Sun than we’ve ever been before, the images are helping scientists better understand the Sun’s influence across the solar system, including events that can affect Earth.
Read the full article: https://jhuapl.link/089
Vishal Giare has been appointed head of APL’s Air and Missile Defense Sector, where he will lead APL’s efforts to advance the nation’s ability to defend our homeland, deployed forces, allies and partners against increasingly complex adversary threats.
Read the full article: https://jhuapl.link/f32
Gen. Gregory Guillot, Commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, saw firsthand how APL’s advanced technologies and cross-agency expertise support emerging national security priorities, including integrated air and missile defense, multidomain awareness and counter-drone operations.
Read the full article: https://jhuapl.link/e13
A team at Johns Hopkins APL is creating an artificial intelligence-driven capability that automates much of the work that goes into designing, setting up, developing and running wargames. The effort holds promise to dramatically amplify the impact and value of wargames and similar exercises for the military and other government agencies.
Read the full article: https://jhuapl.link/e61
Researchers at Johns Hopkins APL have established new, scalable methods of developing battery- and solar-powered fibers, making it theoretically possible for electrical energy to be harvested from, and stored in, the clothing people wear. These fibers could power high-performance wearable electronics that breathe, stretch and wash just like conventional textiles.
Read the full article: https://jhuapl.link/hpj
The BOLT-1B experiment collected data about boundary layer transition (the flow of air around the skin of a hypersonic vehicle), which increases hypersonic vehicle drag and aerodynamic heating. That data will be used by researchers to validate new and more accurate modeling and prediction methods during the design of hypersonic vehicles.
Read the full article: https://jhuapl.link/ifq
As the Navy continues to develop and deploy autonomous systems at sea, Johns Hopkins APL researchers are lending their expertise and insights to rapidly integrate, test and assess low-cost uncrewed maritime systems.
Read the full article: https://jhuapl.link/mux
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