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Phantom Menace
Tatooine town doomed?
Published July 22, 2013
Desert dune poised to swallow Darth Vader's boyhood home, JHU researcher says / The Independent
New Horizons spacecraft
APL hosts New Horizons talk
Published July 15, 2013
Alan Stern, lead investigator for NASA's mission to Pluto, will speak on July 23
Small wonder
Let Sally do it
Published July 2013 Video
APL's latest robotic wonder does her work in danger zones / Gazette
Sailing stone
Rolling stones?
Desert magic demystified
Published June 19, 2013
Johns Hopkins scientist explains mystery of Death Valley's sailing stones / Smithsonian.com
Fever forecast
Published Summer 2013
By accurately predicting outbreaks of mosquito-borne illnesses, a new model from APL gives officials a head start on prevention / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Saturn moon topography
Moon shots
Titan, bumps and all
Published May 16, 2013
APL-led team creates first topographic map of Saturn's largest moon / Applied Physics Laboratory
Map it
APL develops mini-mapper
Published May 2013
Portable device can create annotated maps of locations where GPS is not available / Gazette
Forecast: fever
APL develops early warning system for disease outbreaks
Published March 21, 2013
Scientists use new model to successfully predict dengue fever outbreaks weeks in advance / Applied Physics Laboratory
Voyager 1
Those old models? Wrong
Published Spring 2013
Thirty-five years into a four-year mission, Voyager is still making surprising discoveries / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Idea: Smashing asteroids
Published Spring 2013
If a large asteroid were headed toward Earth, how would we defend ourselves? APL's Andy Cheng has an idea / Johns Hopkins Magazine