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.

Hurricane Harvey churns near the coast of Texas at peak intensity late on August 25, 2017. Photo: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Silence to Sound

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A new tool can help first-responders use Twitter activity to identify developing crises after a storm.

Georgia Tech Professor Howard Weiss reviews data about bacteria found on aircraft studied by a research team that sampled tray tables, seat belt buckles and the handles of lavatory doors. (Credit: John Toon, Georgia Tech)  

Aircraft Microbiome Much Like That of Homes and Offices, Study Finds

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Researchers have conducted what may be the first study of the aircraft microbiome.

Researcher Dobromir Rahnev demonstrates the application of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in a Georgia Tech psychology research center with graduate student Ji-Won Jung. Credit: Georgia Tech / Rob Felt

I Saw That. Brain Mechanisms Create Confidence About Things Seen

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How your brain makes you aware that you actually are seeing what you see just got less mysterious.

An artist's depiction of a NASA ultracold matter experiment that is to run on the International Space Station in 2018. The image does not show anything done in the study at Georgia Tech but serves to illustrate to the reader how intersecting lasers are used to trap atoms. Combined with other methods, the lasers also slow the atoms to a near stop, cooling them to temperatures near absolute zero, the coldest possible temperature in the universe. That cold, matter's wave characteristics become very visible.

Spooky Quantum Particle Pairs Fly Like Weird Curveballs

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It's well-known that quantum particles are just plain weird, but some now appear much weirder than previously thought.

Daniella suffers from mucolipidosis IV, a hereditary disease for which there is no treatment. Georgia Tech and Mass General / Harvard Medical School are working to change that. Credit: ML4 Foundation with the express permission of Daniella's parents, only for use in reporting on this specific collaboration to fight MLIV.

In Child-Crippling Mucolipidosis IV, Drug Shows Hope in Lab Cultures

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Tests show initial hopes in the fight against Mucolipidosis IV, a rare but extremely crippling disease that strikes in infancy.

Image shows a rendered confocal laser scanning micrograph of a mixed species bacterial biofilm observed in a chronic wound model of infection. Staphylococcus aureus (yellow) and Pseudomonas aeruginosa (purple), organize themselves in small, dense clusters of cells called aggregates. (Credit: Sophie Darch, Whiteley Lab and Rumbaugh Lab at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.)

Study Shows How Bacteria Behave Differently in Humans Compared to the Lab

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Study shows how bacteria behave differently in humans versus the lab.