Cybersecurity researchers have identified a new vulnerability affecting Android mobile devices that results not from a traditional bug, but from the malicious combination of two legitimate permissions that power desirable and commonly-used features in popular apps. (Credit: Maxwell Guberman, Georgia Tech)

Combination of Features Produces New Android Vulnerability

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A new vulnerability affecting Android mobile devices results not from a traditional bug, but from the malicious combination of two legitimate permissions that power desirable and commonly-used features in popular apps.

Top domains queried by 27 million samples of malware studied by cybersecurity researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology. (Credit: Georgia Tech)

Network Traffic Provides Early Indication of Malware Infection

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Analyzing network traffic going to suspicious domains could give security administrators earlier warning of malware infections.

A single Zephyr aircraft is launched at Camp Roberts in Monterey County, California during a demonstration by the Georgia Tech Research Institute and the Naval Postgraduate School. (U.S. Navy photo by Javier Chagoya)

Swarms of Autonomous Aerial Vehicles Test New Dogfighting Skills

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Researchers recently pitted two swarms of autonomous aircraft against one another.

Tech graduate Shane Kimbrough is seen floating in the Quest airlock at the end of a spacewalk outside the International Space Station. Photo courtesy: NASA on March 24, 2017

Kimbrough Reflects on Six Months in Space

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Astronaut Shane Kimbrough talks about six month mission aboard the International Space Station.

Georgia Tech graduate Shane Kimbrough takes a selfie during a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on March 24, 2017. Courtesy: NASA

Alumnus Shane Kimbrough Takes Final Spacewalk

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Alumnus Shane Kimbrough will spend the day outside the International Space Station.

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

Hair Spacing Keeps Honeybees Clean During Pollination

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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.

NASA Chooses Georgia Tech For New Solar System Research Project

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A Georgia Tech-led research project is one of four chosen by NASA to broaden knowledge of the Solar System.

NOAA stock press handout image of a tornado. Please credit: NOAA/OAR/ERL/NSSL. To be used in turbulence story. (Do not use out of context.)

From the Butterfly's Wing to the Tornado: Predicting Turbulence

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Remember the adage about a flapping butterfly's wing triggering a tornado? Physicists are getting better at predicting the wiles of turbulence.

Close-up image shows a microfluidic chip used to fabricate nanoparticles that could be used to deliver therapeutic genes to specific organs of the body. Colored liquids have been added to highlight the channels. (Credit: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech)

DNA “Barcoding” Allows Rapid Testing of Nanoparticles for Therapeutic Delivery

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Researchers have developed a new technique for rapidly screening the ability of nanoparticles to selectively deliver therapeutic genes to specific organs of the body.

Physicist Peter Yunker applies mathematical equations to enemy colonies of dueling cholera bacteria to accurately predict the speed dynamics of their phase separation into divided territories, a process similar to the separation of oil and water. The equations were originally used to describe phase separate in materials, namely mixed metals (Model A equations). Credit: Georgia Tech / Rob Felt

Cholera Bacteria Stab and Poison Enemies so Predictably

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The actions of bacteria locked in battle are nearly as calculable as a chemical reaction.