New internet of things technologies are helping protect and connect electronic devices everywhere.

New Technologies are Helping Connect and Protect the Internet of Things

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Researchers are creating a connected new world through the internet of things.

This chart shows the number of passenger contacts by row, for aisle, middle, and window seats for a flight studied by the researchers.

Researchers Determine Routes of Respiratory Infectious Disease Transmission on Aircraft

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Researchers have studied how passengers move about on aircraft to evaluate potential transmission of respiratory infections.

Students stationed in different zones throughout an aircraft recorded the movement of passengers using this iPad application. (Credit: Emory University)

Researchers Determine Routes of Respiratory Infectious Disease Transmission on Aircraft

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Researchers have studied how passengers move about on aircraft to evaluate potential transmission of respiratory infections.

Laser light in the visible range is processed for use in the testing of quantum properties in materials in Carlos Silva's lab at Georgia Tech. Credit: Georgia Tech / Allison Carter

A Future Colorfully Lit by the Mystifying Physics of Paint-On Semiconductors

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Bucking conventional wisdom about semiconductors, a new class of light-emitting materials is flexible, easily produced from solution, and could be painted onto a surface.

Easy as 1, 2, 3! Really?

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Easy as 1, 2, 3! Such claims have touted the ease of use of a new gadget, although a closer look would reveal that it would take dozens of steps to make it work.

InVenture Prize finalist Scal-Pal redesigned surgical blade packages so they’re easier and safer to use. (Photo by Allison Carter)

A Safer Way to Handle Surgical Scalpel Blades

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The InVenture Prize finalist redesigned surgical blade packages so they're easier and safer to use.

Jonathan Rogers with an autonomous flying quadcopter that could, in the future, lift a soldier.

The Next Frontier in Mechanical Engineering

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Drones are being designed, built and programmed to link up and carry larger, heavier objects as a unit.

The Georgia Tech observatory hosts public nights nearly every month of the year.

Why Is Winter the Best Time to See Stars?

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Three reasons why winter's starry nights are so clear and bright

Illustration of a healthy neuron in the brain. Credit: the National Institute on Aging/National Institutes of Health

Neurons Get the Beat and Keep It Going in Drumrolls

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Some of what researchers believed to be chaotic electric potentials in neurons are turning out the be surprisingly orderly.

A blue crab in a tank in a research lab at Georgia Tech. In the tank behind it, small mud crabs are hiding in plastic tubes. Georgia Tech / Alex Draper

Hide or Get Eaten, Urine Chemicals Tell Mud Crabs

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Pinpointing two crab urine chemicals out of hundreds opens new doors of understanding of how marine chemical messaging works.