Wildfires Pollute Much More Than Previously Thought

Wildfires burn much more biomass per area than professional prescribed burns, and pollute at a much higher rate. Credit: Kari Greer/USFS Gila National Forest via NASA
Jun 14, 2017 - Atlanta, GA
Data from flights through wildfire plumes reveal three times the officially noted levels for fine particles

Hide or Get Eaten, Urine Chemicals Tell Mud Crabs

A blue crab in a tank in a research lab at Georgia Tech. In the tank behind it, small mud crabs are hiding in plastic tubes. Georgia Tech / Alex Draper
Jan 08, 2018 - Atlanta, GA
Pinpointing two crab urine chemicals out of hundreds opens new doors of understanding of how marine chemical messaging works.

Supporting Smart Communities Across Georgia

Feb 23, 2018 - Atlanta, GA
Georgia Tech leads a multi-agency initiative to help local governments adopt cutting-edge smart technologies.

Southface Gives Fulcrum Award to Kendeda Building Project

This perspective demonstrates how the Living Building's "porch" integrates the building with the Eco-Commons to the west. Image courtesy of The Miller Hull Partnership in collaboration with Lord Aeck Sargent.
Mar 15, 2018 - Atlanta, GA
The Kendeda Building is already receiving accolades before construction is completed.

Severe Storms Research Center Works to Improve Tornado Warning Time

John Trostel, director of the Severe Storms Research Center (SSRC), poses with a sensor that is part of the North Georgia Lightning Mapping Array, a network of 12 such sensors located around the metropolitan Atlanta area to detect lightning that may indicate storm intensification. (Credit: Branden Camp, Georgia Tech Research Institute)
Apr 19, 2018 - Atlanta, GA
The Severe Storms Research Center is helping improve the ability to forecast tornados and other severe storms.

How Animals Use Their Tails to Swish and Swat Away Insects

Marguerite Matherne, a mechanical engineering Ph.D. student, and Professor David Hu examine the mammal tail simulator used to study the airflow needed to keep mosquitoes from landing. (Credit: John Toon, Georgia Tech)
Oct 16, 2018 - Atlanta, GA
A new study shows how animals use their tails to keep mosquitoes at bay.

Swapping Bacteria May Help ‘Nemo’ Fish Cohabitate with Fish-Killing Anemones

A clownfish peers out of an anemone in a tank at Georgia Aquarium. Anemones usually sting, kill and eat fish, but not clownfish. Georgia Tech researchers found that the microbial colonies in the slime covering clownfish shifted markedly when the nested in an anemone. Could the microbes be putting out chemical messengers that pacify the fish killer? Credit: Georgia Tech / Ben Brumfield
Dec 10, 2018 - Atlanta, GA
Why the fish-killing anemone spares the clownfish is a scientific mystery that Georgia Tech marine microbiologists are now tackling in fish mucus.

Reinvented Toilets Could Provide Safe Sanitation for 2.5 Billion People

A $13.5 million award from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will improve sanitation to 2.5 billion people worldwide by reinventing the toilet, technology that hasn’t changed much in more than a century. (Photo: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech)
Jul 29, 2019 - Atlanta, GA
Georgia Tech researchers are leading a $13.5 million effort, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to reinvent the toilet.

Energy Regulation Rollbacks Threaten Progress Against Harmful Ozone

The Dave Johnson coal-fired power plant in central Wyoming. Credit: Wikimedia Commons CC 2.0 Generic Goebel
Nov 04, 2019 - Atlanta, GA
This is what could happen if all endangered regulations that help in the fight against harmful ozone go away.

Membrane Technology Could Cut Emissions and Energy Use in Oil Refining

Georgia Tech graduate research assistants Kirstie Thompson and Ronita Mathias with a sample of a new membrane material that could reduce carbon emissions and energy intensity associated with refining crude oil. (Credit: Christopher Moore, Georgia Tech)
Jul 16, 2020 - Atlanta, GA
New membrane technology could reduce carbon emissions and energy intensity associated with oil refining.
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