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
At Johns Hopkins APL, engineer Dave Porter adapted upstream data fusion methods developed for threat detection to medical imaging. His team’s patented AI techniques combine multiple imaging sources to detect breast cancer with greater speed and precision, marking a breakthrough in diagnostic screening.
Read the full article: https://jhuapl.link/cjf
A Johns Hopkins APL team has developed a framework for standardizing alerts transmitted by cybersecurity systems defending critical infrastructure, dramatically improving the efficiency with which they respond to potential attacks.
Read the full article: https://jhuapl.link/f47
NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) completed its Flight Readiness Review on Sept. 18, which certifies its readiness to initiate final launch preparation activities. IMAP is targeting a launch date of Sept. 23 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Read the full article: https://jhuapl.link/85e
NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 7:30 a.m. EDT.
Read the full article: https://jhuapl.link/d11
Scientists and engineers at Johns Hopkins APL are applying artificial intelligence and robotics to dramatically accelerate the process of designing, testing and optimizing metallic components for the defense industrial base.
Read the full article: https://jhuapl.link/078
Angela Thompson has been appointed National Security Analysis mission area executive at APL. Since joining the Lab in 2007, she has served in key leadership roles guiding programs that advance U.S. national security.
Read the full article: https://jhuapl.link/6b5
Andrew Mara has been named head of the Force Projection Sector at APL. Mara joined APL in 2023 as the head of the National Security Analysis Department, where he led the development of advanced technical capabilities to enable high-impact analyses of strategic challenges.
Read the full article: https://jhuapl.link/9e3
For the seventh consecutive year, APL has been named one of Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators, recognizing the Lab’s sustained commitment to empowering bold ideas and transformative research.
Read the full article: https://jhuapl.link/47b
NASA’s Dragonfly mission has cleared several key design, development and testing milestones and remains on track toward launch in July 2028.
Read the full article: https://jhuapl.link/4ac
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
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