Because of its hair, a cat has the true surface area as a ping pong table.

A Hairy Situation: Hair Increases Surface Area for Animals by 100 Times

Atlanta, GA

Because of hair, a cat's true surface area is the size of a ping pong table.

Image shows results from massive parallel computer quantum simulations of two and three ultra-cold fermionic atoms trapped in a double well confinement and interacting via strong replusive and attractive contact interactions, showing formation of entangled states and highly correlated Wigner molecules. See additional figure description. (Credit: Georgia Tech Center for Computational Materials Science)

Entering the Strange World of Ultra-Cold Chemistry

Atlanta, GA

Georgia Tech has received a grant from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research to study the unusual chemical and physical properties of atoms and molecules at ultra-cold temperatures.

Carnegie Corp. Awards $485,000 Grant to Nunn School to Study Nuclear Instability

Atlanta, GA

Sam Nunn School of International Affairs receives grant to study how technologies are increasing nuclear instability.

Ants were put in a rheometer, a machine used to test the solid-like and liquid-like response of materials such as food, hand cream or melted plastic.

Ants: Both Solid-like and Liquid-like

Atlanta, GA

Study finds that ants are actually liquid-like and solid-like simultaneously

Georgia Tech signs on 10th street (Photo Credit: Fitrah Hamid)

Georgia Tech named a Center of Knowledge Interchange partner by Siemens

Atlanta, GA

Global technology company Siemens has named Georgia Tech a Center of Knowledge Interchange (CKI) partner.

Liquid ports carry cooling water to specially designed passages etched into the backs of FPGA devices to provide more effective cooling. The liquid cooling provides a significant advantage in computing throughput. (Credit: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech)

Liquid Cooling Moves onto the Chip for Denser Electronics

Atlanta, GA

Researchers are putting liquid cooling right where it’s needed the most – a few hundred microns away from where the transistors are operating.

The Engineered Biosystems Building provides nearly 219,000 square feet of multidisciplinary research space. It is located on 10th Street, at the north end of the existing biotechnology complex. (Photo by Rob Felt)

Georgia Tech Celebrates EBB Opening

Atlanta, GA

New Engineered Biosystems Building advances biosciences, bioengineering research

Researchers Glaucio Paulino (left) and Evgueni Filipov with three origami structures showing the size flexibility of the "zippered tube" system. Filipov is from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Paulino is from the Georgia Institute of Technology. (Credit: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech) 

Paper Tubes Make Stiff Origami Structures

Atlanta, GA

From shipping and construction to outer space, origami could put a folded twist on structural engineering.

Georgia Tech Examines Impact of Hurricane Katrina

Atlanta, GA

Georgia Tech, National Academy of Engineering hosted a roundtable discussion on disaster readiness.

Photograph shows a high strength and high modulus carbon fiber processed at Georgia Tech. (Credit: Gary Meek, Georgia Tech)  

Innovative Method Improves Strength and Modulus in Carbon Fibers

Atlanta, GA

Georgia Tech researchers are improving the strength and modulus of carbon fibers.