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A leader in the defense research and development community who joined APL in 1983, he currently heads the lab's Air and ...
It’s just a piece of wood, but because it’s milled with precision, it can cost hundreds of dollars and can result in ...
Devices are often limited by the bulkiness of their batteries—but what if we could shape the batteries into whatever form we ...
Physics is the search for and application of rules that can help us understand and predict the world around us. Central to physics are ideas such as energy, mass, particles and waves. Physics ...
A common lithium salt has revealed new possibilities for manufacturing cheaper, longer-lasting battery materials.
Femtosecond-long, petawatt-peak power beam could be used to probe previously inaccessible phenomena in materials science, ...
Plasma physics is the study of a state of matter comprising charged particles. Plasmas are usually created by heating a gas until the electrons become detached from their parent atom or molecule.
APL’s STEM Academy is a unique opportunity for middle and high school students (grades 8–12) in Maryland to increase both their knowledge of and interest in STEM-related college majors and careers by ...