Researchers Will Ratcliff (left) and Peter Yunker at Highland Bakery.

Coffee Leads to Collaboration

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Meetings over coffee led two professors to collaborate on research.

With support from the National Science Foundation, Georgia Tech researchers are studying Spirostomum ambiguum, a tiny single-celled protozoan that achieves blazing-fast acceleration while contracting its worm-like body. (Credit: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech)

World’s Fastest Creature May Also be One of the Smallest

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Researchers are studying a tiny single-celled protozoan that achieves blazing-fast acceleration while contracting its worm-like body.

A proof-of-concept flow sensor is shown here on a stent backbone. (Credit: John Toon, Georgia Tech)

Integrated Sensor Could Monitor Brain Aneurysm Treatment

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A proof-of-concept sensor could help with monitoring treatment of brain aneurysms.

Corallivorous gastropod (Coralliophila violacea) feeding on a Porites cylindrica coral. (Credit: Cody Clements, Georgia Tech)

Previously Overlooked “Coral Ticks” Weaken Degraded Reefs

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A previously overlooked predator could be increasing the pressure on endangered coral reefs.

This is J. Carson Meredith, a professor in Georgia Tech's School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. (Credit: Allison Carter)

Material Formed from Crab Shells and Trees Could Replace Flexible Plastic Packaging

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STAMI Researchers have created a material derived from crab shells and tree fibers that has the potential to replace the flexible plastic packaging used to keep food fresh.

This is J. Carson Meredith, a professor in Georgia Tech's School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. (Credit: Allison Carter)

Material Formed from Crab Shells and Trees Could Replace Flexible Plastic Packaging

Atlanta, GA

Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have created a material derived from crab shells and tree fibers that has the potential to replace the flexible plastic packaging used to keep food fresh.

Professor Mindy Millard-Stafford researches in exercise physiology, including studies on how dehydration and exertion can reduce physical and cognitive performance. In the background, a volunteer lies on a device that measures body composition (l.) and another volunteer sweats out fluids under exertion in a heated chamber (r.). Millard-Stafford is Past President of the American College of Sports Medicine. Credit: Georgia Tech / Christopher Moore

As We Get Parched, Cognition Can Sputter, Dehydration Study Says

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Summer heat fuzzing your concentration? Making you fumble? It may be dehydration.

Image shows Georgia Tech Associate Professor Ignacio Taboada with a digital optical module of the kind used in the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. The observatory has 5,000 of the modules suspended in clear ice to detect blue light indicating passage of a neutrino.(Credit: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech)

IceCube Neutrinos Point to Long-Sought Cosmic Ray Accelerator

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An international team of scientists has found the first evidence of a source of high-energy cosmic neutrinos.

The artist's concept depicts Kepler-186f. Image credit: NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle

More Clues That Earth-Like Exoplanets Are Indeed Earth-Like

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A new study finds new clues that two Earth-like exoplanets are much like our planet.

Matthew Boebinger, a graduate student at Georgia Tech, and Matthew McDowell, an assistant professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Materials Science and Engineering, used an electron microscope to observe chemical reactions. (Credit: Rob Felt)

Sodium- and Potassium-based Batteries Hold Promise for Cheap Energy Storage

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Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have found new evidence suggesting that batteries based on sodium and potassium hold promise as a potential alternative to lithium-based batteries.