A honeybee covered by commercial pollen. Photo courtesy: Candler Hobbs, George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering

Hair Spacing Keeps Honeybees Clean During Pollination

Atlanta, GA

A honeybee can carry up to 30 percent of its body weight in pollen because of the strategic spacing of its nearly three million hairs.

Georgia Tech professor Andrei Fedorov (left) and undergraduate research assistant Yuzhe Peng are shown with the laboratory-scale hydrogen reforming system that produces the green fuel at relatively low temperature in a process that can be scaled up or down to meet specific needs. (Credit: Candler Hobbs, Georgia Tech)

Four-Stroke Engine Cycle Produces Hydrogen from Methane and Captures CO2

Atlanta, GA

Researchers have developed a modular reactor able to generate hydrogen at lower temperatures than existing processes.

Fishes and healthy coral show the benefits of marine protected areas designed to protect reef ecosystems. (Credit: Cody Clements, Georgia Tech)

Size Matters for Marine Protected Areas Designed to Aid Coral

Atlanta, GA

For marine protected areas established to help coral reefs recover from overfishing, size really does seem to make a difference.

Photo shows the manufacture of polymer hollow fiber membranes, which are precursors to more advanced carbon molecular sieve hollow fiber membranes. (Credit: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech)

Advanced Materials Power Next-Generation Molecular Separations

Atlanta, GA

Researchers have identified opportunities for scalable membrane materials.

A plot with enclosure at the SPRUCE peat bog climate change experiment in northern Minnesota. Credit: Georgia Tech / Ben Brumfield

Climate Change: Potentially Good News on Methane and Peat Carbon

Atlanta, GA

Soil carbon stored in peat bogs may not convert to greenhouse gasses in the face of global warming.

Close-up of a polymer film on a glass substrate before immersion in a polyoxometalte solution to electrically dope the film over a limited depth. (Credit: Christopher Moore, Georgia Tech)

Simple Processing Technique Could Cut Cost of Organic PV and Wearable Electronics

Atlanta

A simple solution-based processing technique could help reduce the cost of polymer solar cells.

Gene puddle primeval, a drawing by first author Christine He to illustrate her discocery that viscosity moves DNA and RNA strands forward toward spontaneous gene strand replication. Credit: Georgia Tech / Christine He

Was the Secret Spice in Primal Gene Soup a Thickener?

Atlanta, GA

Searching for the origins of life, researchers add thickener to the broth

Startup Launch - Deadline Announcement!

Atlanta, GA

Startup Launch (formerly known as Startup Summer) is looking for the next great ideas from Tech students for its 2017 program.

A bacterial warrior the only one of its kind? This enzyme is "wacko" in many ways in its breakdown of a poison related to TNT. On top of that, 5NAA-A is known so far only to exist in a single living organism on Earth. Could it be the lone master of a rare bacterial enzymatic kung fu, in the war on potatoes? Or does a genomic clue point to its existence in one other solitary case?

Unique Bacterial Chemist in the War on Potatoes

Atlanta, GA

A bacterial warrior the only one of its kind? This enzyme is "wacko" in the ways it breaks down a poison related to TNT.

Images from the Encyclopedia of Life. Photo credits: Robertpollai, CC-BY; A. Fifis/Ifremer, CC-BY-NC; Kevin Raskoff & MPC, CC-BY-NC-SA; Sean McCann, CC-BY-NC-SA; Nick Hobgood, CC-BY-NC  

Addressing Environmental Challenges with Big Data and Artificial Intelligence

Atlanta, GA

NSF funding to link technologies from Georgia Tech, Smithsonian and IBM to study environment.