By analyzing genomic sequences from more than 400 strains of the bacterium that causes anthrax, researchers have provided the first evidence that the severity – technically known as virulence – of specific…
A team from Georgia Tech will be a part of the new supercomputing system known as Frontera that will be located at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) and funded by a $60 million award from the National…
On November 17, 2017, IDEaS hosted the half-day workshop, “IDEaS in Computational Chemistry Methods.” Computational Chemistry has become an indispensable research tool in many fields of science and engineering, and…
In July and August, IDEaS hosted its Summer Workshop in Data Science and Scientific Computing. More than 140 undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs registered for the workshop, consisting of…
School of Computer Science Professor Dana Randall has been named an external faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute (SFI).
SFI is a non-profit…
When dehydration strikes, part of the brain can swell, neural signaling can intensify, and doing monotonous tasks can get harder.
With the help of brain scans and a simple, repetitive task to test…
A simulator that comes complete with a virtual explosion could help the operators of chemical processing plants – and other industrial facilities – learn to detect attacks by hackers bent on causing mayhem. The…
By Michael Pearson
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced its replacement for the Obama-era Clean Power Plan on Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018. The Affordable Clean Energy, or ACE, rule would set state…
More than an eon ago, the sun shone dimmer than it does today, but the Earth stayed warm due to a strong greenhouse gas effect, geoscience theory holds. Astronomer Carl Sagan coined this “…
A throng of more than 50 world-class investigators from some of Georgia’s top research institutions gathered recently at the Georgia Institute of Technology to kick off a new initiative – the first symposium of the…
Melissa Kemp has joined the Modeling and Analysis of Biological Systems Study Section of the Center for Scientific Review (CSR), the gateway for grant applications and their review for scientific merit at the…
It’s been eight years since Zhong Lin Wang launched pioneering research into triboelectric nanogenerators, effectively creating an entirely new field of study into materials that produce an electrical charge…
Georgia Tech’s Center for the Development and Application of Internet of Things Technologies (CDAIT) Managing Director Alain Louchez will moderate a panel on the transformative nature of the Internet of Things…
The lead contamination in Flint’s drinking water is considered one of the biggest environmental crises of the recent years. Finding the locations of tens of thousands of lead pipes throughout the city seemed an…
By Michael Pearson
If given just one word to describe the robotics team mentored by School of Public Policy graduate student Ed Barker, you wouldn’t go wrong choosing “…
For ants and robots operating in confined spaces like tunnels, having more workers does not necessarily mean getting more work done. Just as too many cooks in a kitchen get in each other’s way, having too many robots…
Georgia Tech researchers are heading to London this week to take part in the 24th Association for Computing Machinery SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge…
The National Neurotrauma Society (NNS) has selected Michelle LaPlaca, associate professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, as…
A car accident leaves an aging patient with severe muscle injuries that won’t heal. Treatment with muscle stem cells from a donor might restore damaged tissue, but doctors are unable to deliver them effectively.…
