Georgia Tech Examines Impact of Hurricane Katrina

Aug 06, 2015 - Atlanta, GA
Georgia Tech, National Academy of Engineering hosted a roundtable discussion on disaster readiness.

Paper Tubes Make Stiff Origami Structures

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) 
Sep 07, 2015 - Atlanta, GA
From shipping and construction to outer space, origami could put a folded twist on structural engineering.

Georgia Tech Celebrates EBB Opening

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)
Sep 11, 2015 - Atlanta, GA
New Engineered Biosystems Building advances biosciences, bioengineering research

Liquid Cooling Moves onto the Chip for Denser Electronics

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)
Oct 05, 2015 - 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.

Georgia Tech named a Center of Knowledge Interchange partner by Siemens

Georgia Tech signs on 10th street (Photo Credit: Fitrah Hamid)
Oct 09, 2015 - Atlanta, GA
Global technology company Siemens has named Georgia Tech a Center of Knowledge Interchange (CKI) partner.

Ants: Both Solid-like and Liquid-like

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.
Oct 26, 2015 - Atlanta, GA
Study finds that ants are actually liquid-like and solid-like simultaneously

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

Oct 28, 2015 - Atlanta, GA
Sam Nunn School of International Affairs receives grant to study how technologies are increasing nuclear instability.

Entering the Strange World of Ultra-Cold Chemistry

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)
Oct 29, 2015 - 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.

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

Because of its hair, a cat has the true surface area as a ping pong table.
Nov 09, 2015 - Atlanta, GA
Because of hair, a cat's true surface area is the size of a ping pong table.

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

Because of its hair, a cat has the true surface area as a ping pong table.
Nov 09, 2015 - Atlanta, GA
Because of hair, a cat's true surface area is the size of a ping pong table.
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