Cotton-Based Hybrid Biofuel Cell Could Power Implantable Medical Devices

Chemically-modified cotton fibers are the basis for electrodes used in a new biofuel cell powered by glucose. (Credit: Georgia Department of Economic Development)
Nov 16, 2018 - Atlanta, GA
A glucose-powered biofuel cell that uses electrodes made from cotton fiber could someday help power implantable medical devices.

When Boy Fish Build Castles to Impress Girl Fish, Boy Genes Get a Rise

A special breed of cichlid fish has allowed researchers to match up gene activation with behavior. The up and down-regulation of genes may actually be steering ritual mating behaviors. The research is potentially useful in understanding autism since some genes involved in the fish behavior have human genetic cousins implicated in autism spectrum disorder. Credit: Georgia Tech / Rob Felt
Nov 21, 2018 - Atlanta, GA
Instinctive behavior may be directly driven be gene regulation, at least researchers were able to match the two up.

Catalog of Cosmic Cataclysms Helps Establish Gravitational Wave Astronomy

Image shows simulation of gravitational waves produced when two binary black holes collide. (Credit: Center for Relativistic Astrophysics)
Dec 05, 2018 - Atlanta, GA
A new catalog of cataclysmic events supports the development of gravitational wave astronomy.

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.

Powerful X-ray Beams Unlock Secrets of Nanoscale Crystal Formation

Georgia Tech graduate research assistant Xuetian Ma holds a reaction vessel similar to those used in the research on nanoscale crystalline growth. The vessels were made of a high-strength quartz tube about a millimeter in diameter and about two inches long. (Credit: Allison Carter, Georgia Tech)
Jan 07, 2019 - Atlanta, GA
Researchers have determined what controls formation of two different nanoscale crystalline structures in cobalt.

Flu Vaccine Supply Gaps Can Intensify Flu Seasons, Make Pandemics Deadlier

An ambulance in St. Louis, Missouri, picks up a patient believed to be infected with influenza in the 1918-19 Spanish flu pandemic, which killed 50 million people or more worldwide. Credit: National Archives
Jan 07, 2019 - Atlanta, GA
A tweak to our flu vaccine resupply logistics could save thousands of lives

Brilliant Glow of Paint-On Semiconductors Comes from Ornate Quantum Physics

Laser light in the visible range is processed for use in the testing of quantum properties in materials in Carlos Silva's lab at Georgia Tech. Credit: Georgia Tech / Rob Felt
Jan 14, 2019 - Atlanta, GA
A new revolution in semiconductors could transform lighting and solar energy, and this is what their crazy physics look like.

Birth of Massive Black Holes in the Early Universe Revealed

Zoom of the inner 30 light-years of the dark matter halo. The rotating gaseous disk breaks apart into three clumps that collapse under their own gravity to form supermassive stars.  (Credit: John Wise, Georgia Institute of Technology)
Jan 23, 2019 - Atlanta, GA
New research shows that when galaxies assemble extremely rapidly – and sometimes violently – that can lead to the formation of very massive black holes.

FDA Taps Georgia Tech to Help Reduce Cost of Making Antibiotics

Andreas Bommarius, a professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Martha Grover, a professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Ron Rousseau, a professor and Cecil J. "Pete" Silas Chair Emeritus in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (Credit: Rob Felt)
Feb 06, 2019 - Atlanta, GA
A team of researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology has kicked off a three-year federally-funded project to harness new manufacturing technologies and methods in a bid to bring down the cost of making certain antibiotics.

$25 Million Award Will Support Nuclear Nonproliferation R&D, Education

Associate Professor Anna Erickson shown with the subcritical graphite pile used to teach radiation physics concepts at Georgia Tech. (Photo: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech)
Feb 06, 2019 - Atlanta, GA
A new consortium has been awarded $25 million to develop new technologies and educational program to support nuclear nonproliferation.
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