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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.

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 ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ 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.

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.

APL researchers have demonstrated that a quantum algorithm can be used to speed up an information analysis task that classical computers struggle to perform.

Revision 6.1 of the Modular Payload Design Standard, developed by a collaborative team of government and industry partners led by ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ 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.

Starting as a one-day meeting on the ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ 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.

NASA’s Relativistic Electron Atmospheric Loss (REAL) spacecraft, developed and managed by ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ 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.

As NASA prepares to commercialize satellite relay services, APL engineers are developing an effective and efficient way for spacecraft to relay data and communicate in low Earth orbit.

On its record-breaking pass by the Sun late last year, the ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ APL-built Parker Solar Probe captured stunning images from within the Sun’s atmosphere. Taken closer to the Sun than we’ve ever been before, the images are helping scientists better understand the Sun’s influence across the solar system, including events that can affect Earth.