Image taken with a confocal microscope of a toroidal structure, false-colored by height. The worm-like structures are microtubules driven by kinesin motor proteins. (Credit: Perry Ellis, Georgia Tech)

Wriggling Microtubules Help Explain Coupling of “Active” Defects and Curvature

Atlanta, GA

Scientists have examined an active nematic built with components borrowed from living cells.

This visualization shows the coalescence of two orbiting neutron stars. The right panel contains a visualization of the matter of the neutron stars. The left panel shows how space-time is distorted near the collisions. Image credit: Karan Jani/Georgia Tech

Scientists Make First Detection of Neutron Star Collision

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Historic detection allows astrophysicists to observe the universe in new ways.

Atherosclerosis is the foremost cause of coronary artery disease, the number one killer of people in the United States. Credit: National Institutes of Health

Fight Against Top Killer, Clogged Arteries, Garners Acclaimed NIH Award

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The fight to discover HDL cocktails that actually work against atherosclerosis, the #1 killer of our times, receives major funding.

This illustration shows the merger of two black holes and the gravitational waves that ripple outward as the black holes spiral toward each other. Courtesy: LIGO/T. Pyle

Gravitational Wave Confirmations Earn 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics

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The discovery of gravitaitonal waves earns three scientists the Nobel Prize in physics.

An illustration of a crowd of black hats with a single white hat. Zeros and Ones layer on top.

Tackling Cybersecurity: White Hats, Black Hats, and Grey Matter

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In the realm of cybersecurity, white hats are good-guy defenders and black hats are the adversary. Yet it takes a combination of both to really put grey matter to work and solve the most vexing challenge of our time: protecting connected data.

There are some 30 species of Leishmania parasites, which take on two different forms in their life cycle. Illustrated here are promastigotes (top) and amastigotes (bottom) with a typical boil caused by a leishmaniasis infection. Rights: iStock / Getty / purchased / not transferable 

As 'Flesh-Eating' Leishmania Come Closer, a Vaccine Against Them Does, Too

Atlanta, GA

A potentially deadly parasite that can ulcerate skin, nose, mouth and organs could someday meet its match in an experimental vaccine that has now worked in lab tests on humanized mice.

The Diamond Ring effect from Clayton, Georgia (Photo: Zonglin "Jack" Li, civil engineering student)

Eclipse Reflections from the Experts

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Faculty members provide their thoughts on witnessing the solar eclipse.

Searching for Science in the Solar Darkness

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Scientists have long used eclipses to learn more about the sun and the Earth.

When going up, the stairs give people a boost by releasing stored energy, making it 37 percent easier on the knee than using conventional stairs.

Climbing Stairs Just Got Easier with Energy-Recycling Steps

Atlanta, GA

Energy-recycling stairs developed to store a user’s energy during descent and return energy to the climber during ascent.

New 3-D printing technologies allow researchers to create patient-specific heart valve models that mimic the physiological qualities of the real valves. This image shows the submerged valve during flow testing. (Credit: Rob Felt)

Unique 3-D Printed Models Could Improve Patient Outcomes in Heart Valve Replacements

Atlanta, GA

Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology and the Piedmont Heart Institute are using standard medical imaging and new 3-D printing technologies to create patient-specific heart valve models that mimic the physiological qualities of the real valves.