The Latest Research News

When Human Expertise Improves the Work of Machines

Posted: August 15, 2019

Machine learning algorithms can sometimes do a better job with a little help from human expertise.

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.

Smartphone Apps May Connect to Vulnerable Backend Cloud Servers

Posted: August 12, 2019

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered vulnerabilities in the backend systems that feed content and advertising to smartphone applications.

Antineutrino Detection Could Help Remotely Monitor Nuclear Reactors

Posted: August 6, 2019

Measuring the flow of subatomic particles known as antineutrinos from nuclear reactors could allow continuous remote monitoring designed to detect fueling changes.

Bioengineering and Bioscience

NSF/NASA Center for Chemical Evolution banner partial

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.

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.

Hackers Could Use Connected Cars to Gridlock Whole Cities

Posted: July 29, 2019

Hackers could gridlock whole cities by stalling out a limited percentage of self-driving and other connected vehicles.

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.

Materials

Metal Oxide-infused Membranes Could Offer Low-Energy Alternative For Chemical Separations

Posted: July 18, 2019

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are working on membranes that could separate chemicals without using energy-intensive distillation processes.