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Parker Solar Probe completed its seventh and final Venus gravity-assist maneuver, swinging onto a path that will bring it to within an unprecedented 3.8 million miles of the solar surface this Christmas Eve.

Larry Harvell is the new military and veteran recruiting program lead at APL, working to attract transitioning military personnel and veterans to the nation’s largest university affiliated research center.

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 cycle of the SURPASS initiative.

Sean Kim was awarded the $8,000 APL STEM scholarship, which is presented to a high school senior who has participated in two or more APL STEM programs.

Scientists have discovered that Uranus’ moon Miranda may have a hidden ocean beneath its surface. The surprising finding, based on a study of the moon’s surface features and computer modeling, suggests Miranda’s interior may still be warm and harbor liquid water even today, challenging assumptions about its composition and history.