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Eleven Georgia Tech Faculty Members Receive NSF CAREER Awards

Posted: August 20, 2019

Eleven Georgia Tech faculty members have been chosen to receive National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER awards.

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Nanoscale “Glass” Bottles Could Enable Targeted Drug Delivery

Posted: August 14, 2019

Tiny silica bottles filled with medicine and a special temperature-sensitive material could be used for drug delivery to kill malignant cells only in certain parts of the body.

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Pre-Life Building Blocks Spontaneously Align in Evolutionary Experiment

Posted: August 1, 2019

Defying expectations, life building blocks spontaneously linked up in an experiment on how prebiotic chemistry took steps toward becoming the early life chemistry behind proteins.

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Soft Wearable Health Monitor Uses Stretchable Electronics

Posted: July 30, 2019

A wireless, wearable monitor built with stretchable electronics could allow comfortable, long-term health monitoring of adults, babies and small children.

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Georgia Tech is helping reinvent the toilet

Reinvented Toilets Could Provide Safe Sanitation for 2.5 Billion People

Posted: July 29, 2019

Georgia Tech researchers are leading a $13.5 million effort, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to reinvent the toilet.

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Peanut Plant’s “Chemical Breath” Could Give Clues to Drought and Other Stresses

Posted: July 18, 2019

Peanut growers could someday identify emerging threats such as drought, pests or disease by testing a plant’s “chemical breath.”

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Rising Tundra Temperatures Create Worrying Changes in Microbial Communities

Posted: July 8, 2019

Rising temperatures could affect the microbial communities in northern latitude tundra.

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Scientists Discover the Biggest Seaweed Bloom in the World

Posted: July 5, 2019

Record-breaking belt of brown algae stretches from West Africa to the Gulf of Mexico

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Think Small

Posted: June 28, 2019

Working with clinicians, Georgia Tech researchers develop innovative technology to fill the gaps in pediatric research — and save children's lives.

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Cool Solutions: Science and Engineering Help Address the Impacts of Climate Change

Posted: June 28, 2019

Science and engineering are collaborating to help address the impacts of climate change.

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