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APL to host STEM workshop for parents
Published Dec 7, 2012
Event designed to help parents of middle school students prepare their children for careers in science, technology, engineering, math
Next stop: Interstellar space
Published Dec 3, 2012
APL scientists say NASA's Voyager has encountered 'magnetic highway' on outskirts of solar system / Applied Physics Laboratory
Mercury findings
Published Nov 29, 2012
Messenger observations point to existence of water ice in permanently shadowed polar craters / Applied Physics Laboratory
Making patients safer through user-friendly ICUs
Published Nov 2012
Interdisciplinary team will design, implement, and deploy integrated set of interventions to reduce medical errors in intensive care units / Gazette
Far out science
Published Oct 24, 2012 Video
What happens to a glass of water in space? Watch and learn.
Predicting virus mutations
Published Oct 16, 2012
Team seeks to determine how viruses change in hopes of helping researchers stay ahead of potential pandemics / Applied Physics Laboratory
A work of art
Published Sept 2012
Michael McLoughlin of the Applied Physics Laboratory talks about a neurally controlled prosthetic limb developed by an APL-led team / Gazette
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Catch and collect
Published Fall 2012 Photos
Bill McCloskey spent 27 years as a congressional liaison for the Applied Physics Laboratory before retiring in 1989. He also spent 50 years as a seafaring shutterbug, documenting the lives of commercial fishermen. In 2011, his photographs were officially added to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History collection. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
APL's twin Radiation Belt Storm Probes blast off
Published Aug 30, 2012
Satellites will investigate hazardous regions of near-Earth space known as Van Allen belts / Applied Physics Laboratory
Igniting innovation at APL
Published July 11, 2012