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Novelis and Georgia Tech Establish Novelis Innovation Hub

Posted: August 22, 2019

Atlanta-based Novelis Inc. and Georgia Tech have announced a new collaboration to establish the Novelis Innovation Hub at Georgia Tech.

Scurrying Roaches Help Researchers Steady Staggering Robots

Posted: August 22, 2019

Researchers have leveraged cockroaches' scurrying skills for a cleverly simple method to assess and improve locomotion in robots.

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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.

King of Hearts

Posted: August 19, 2019

The life’s work of this cardiovascular engineer is the best lesson on how to help the most patients from the lab and the lectern

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.

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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.

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.

Armored With Plastic ‘Hair’ and Silica Shell, New Perovskite Nanocrystals Show Enhanced Durability

Posted: November 29, 2019

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have demonstrated a novel approach aimed at addressing the material’s durability problem: encasing the perovskite inside a double layer protection system made from plastic and silica.

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El Nino Swings More Violently in the Industrial Age, Hard Evidence Says

Posted: November 25, 2019

Hard evidence now says: El Nino and the climate phenomenon that drives it have become more extreme in the industrial age.

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Exoplanet Axis Study Boosts Hopes of Complex Life, Just Not Next Door

Posted: November 20, 2019

An exoplanet study on axis tilts raises hopes that advanced life may exist elsewhere in the universe.

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Observing a “Cosmic Symphony” Using Gravitational Wave Astronomy

Posted: November 19, 2019

Research from a team of astrophysicists presents a compelling roadmap for capturing four- to 10-year snapshots of intermediate-mass black hole activity.

Metagenomics Unlocks Unknowns of Diarrheal Disease Cases in Children

Posted: November 18, 2019

Researchers have found that conventional culture-based lab tests may misdiagnose as many as half of the microbial causes of diarrheal diseases in children.

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Informatics Accelerates Design of Hybrid Membrane Materials for Chemical Separations

Posted: November 8, 2019

A $1.7 million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will help a team at the Georgia Institute of Technology develop much cheaper ways to separate chemicals using membranes that could potentially replace energy-intensive distillation processes.

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