From hurricanes and earthquakes, to conflict and disease, these disasters, both man-made and natural, can have a devastating impact costing millions, and even billions in damages, while greatly impacting the lives,…
A team with promising technology to combat antibiotic resistance has received funding to accelerate commercialization. The team includes David…
Mick Jagger owes some thanks for the fact he’s alive and strutting to Ajit Yoganathan and his lab crew. In fact, millions of people do.
The rock icon received a replacement heart valve…
On the heels of the 2019 Ig Nobel Prize in Physics, two more awards have been bestowed on David Hu, professor in the Schools of Mechanical Engineering and of…
When the National Science Foundation and the Simons Foundation launched the Research Centers for Mathematics of Complex Biological Systems (MathBioSys) initiative two years ago, the idea was to bring two distinct…
Thiazide diuretics demonstrate better effectiveness and cause fewer side effects than ACE inhibitors as first-line antihypertensive drugs, according to a report published October 24 in the journal Lancet.…
The Institute for Data Engineering and Science (IDEaS) plans to make multiple awards to teams engaged in the development of proposals to the NSF AI Research Institutes program (NSF 20-503). Preference will be given…
The Georgia Institute of Technology dedicated a new building Oct. 24 that rewrites the rules for sustainability in the Southeast.
In fact, The Kendeda Building for…
Researchers are beginning a three-year cross-institute project that aims to lower the barrier to entry for software engineers developing new high-performance applications on large scale parallel systems.
The…
By Michael Pearson
John Britti, a fifth-year student in computational media, used to have what he calls a “woefully average” approach to data.
“Literally average, in fact,” the Atlanta resident said…
Bioscientists who want to shed light on the origin, evolution, and distribution of life in the universe don’t have to travel very far to do it. In fact, they’re doing it right now at the Petit Institute of…
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced that the National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI) has been chosen to lead a large research and development effort called the Energy-Water Desalination Hub. This…
Bioscientists who want to shed light on the origin, evolution, and distribution of life in the universe don’t have to travel very far to do it. In fact, they’re doing it right now at the Petit Institute of…
Getting cancer drugs to their target can be difficult under the best of circumstances, but in the case of brain cancer the challenge is compounded by the blood-brain barrier- a semipermeable barrier that has evolved…
In quantum computing, as in team building, a little diversity can help get the job done better, computer scientists have discovered.
Unlike conventional computers, the processing in quantum-based machines is…
A new artificially intelligent (AI) research tool that harnesses the power of the Smithsonian Institution’s massive Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) ecological…
