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The Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering (WSE) and APL have selected three winning proposals for the third cycle of the SURPASS initiative. The proposals were chosen for their potential to transform foundational research into impact. Each proposal is led by two principal investigators (PIs), one from APL and the other from WSE. APL [...]

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By Ajai Raj Cheap and plentiful hydrogen harvested from water. Lightning-fast biocomputers running on brain-like substrates. Widely available noninvasive brain scans for early detection of neurological disease. A visual prosthesis in the form of glasses that returns sight to people with previously incurable vision loss. These are the four boundary-pushing proposals funded in this year’s […]

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Imagine being able to detect unhealthy brain activity just by putting on a hat, potentially detecting future incidences of dementia and Alzheimer’s years before onset, or making transportation in the upper stratosphere to and from space as common as domestic and international air travel. These are just two of the revolutionary innovations that teams from […]

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Begun in 2006, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s (DARPA’s) Revolutionizing Prosthetics program set out to expand prosthetic arm options for wounded warriors. The program funded two teams to create advanced anthropomorphic mechanical arms and control systems: DEKA Research and Development Corporation to get an arm control system to market quickly; and the other—with APL [...]

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Launched in 2018, the APL-built Parker Solar Probe is on a record-setting trek through the inner solar system, set to dip within 4 million miles from the Sun’s surface while answering decades-old questions about solar physics and the effects of our star’s activity on Earth. This is exploration to the extreme -- and Johns Hopkins [...]

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