<p>At a lively reef where fishing is banned, corals thrive, and fish eat seaweed that would otherwise vastly outcompete and endanger the corals. Fisheries regulations appear to protect reefs and may buy some insurance against mass coral death in ocean warming events. But even protected reefs die off if their waters get too hot too long. Credit: Georgia Tech / Hay lab</p>

Corals create potions that fight bacterial attackers, but warming appears to tip the scales against the potions as they battle a bacterium common in coral bleaching,…

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Man in pain

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), particularly among veterans returning from combat zones or other troubling situations, is a devastating mental condition with tremendous individual and societal costs. About 12…

<p>Georgia Tech Professor Lukas Graber and Postdoctoral Fellow Chanyeop Park study the plasma potential surrounding materials being evaluated for use in improved DC circuit breakers. The low-energy argon plasma creates the purple color. (Photo: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech)</p>

Direct current (DC) powers flashlights, smartphones and electric cars, but major power users depend on alternating current (AC), which cycles on and off 60 times per second. Among the reasons: AC is simple to turn…

<p><strong>Phil Santangelo </strong>(pictured right), professor, and <strong>James Dahlman </strong>(pictured left) assistant professor, in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University.</p>

Phil Santangelo, professor, and James Dahlman, assistant professor, in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, were awarded…

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In this era of “fake news,” it is often the responsibility of the reader to determine what is accurate. Yet a new data project puts the onus back on the industry.

News Quality Aggregator (NewsQA) is a…

<p><strong>Phil Santangelo</strong>, professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University</p>

Phil Santangelo, professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) R61/R33 grant valued at…

Getting new treatments from the lab benchtop to patients&#039

Getting new treatments from the lab benchtop to patients' bedsides can be harder and more expensive than putting a lander on Mars. But it doesn’t have to be, says Tiffany Wilson, who heads a nonprofit…

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<p>Food distribution in a center for internally displaced people in Yemen in the Saudi-Houthi rebel conflict. Credit: International Committee of the Red Cross / Yahya Arhab / <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/" target="_blank">Creative Commons BY-NC-ND</a> / no commercial use</p>

In a remote village, an aid worker pricks a sickly toddler’s fingertip, and like most of the other children’s blood samples, this one turns a test strip yellow. That’s how an experimental malnutrition test made with…

Georgia Tech Launches Southeast Robotics Symposium

A recognized leader in robotics education and research, the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM) is known for several firsts, including launching the nation’s original interdisciplinary Ph.D.…

<p>Full Side View of Adobe House with Water in Foreground, Acoma Pueblo [National Historic Landmark, New Mexico]. Credit: National Archives/Ansel Adams/public domain</p>

If your ancestry in the United States stretches back more than 250 years, you may have Native American forbears. A new population genetics study shows that Americans with early European or early African ancestry can…

<p><strong>James Dahlman Wins BMES Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award</strong></p>

James Dahlman, assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory, and a researcher in the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience…

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The Institute for People and Technology, Georgia Tech Athletics, and other campus units have partnered to create SPRINT, or the Sports Research, Innovation, and Technology initiative. SPRINT centralizes and expands…

<p>An array of 347 solar panels sits atop the Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons.</p>

Representatives from leading world universities — including Georgia Tech — will convene today at Rutgers University - Newark to participate in the University Global Compact…

<p>BME Professor Cheng Zhu and research scientist Kaitao Li (foreground) are among the co-authors of a new Perspective article in <em>Nature Immunology</em>.</p>

As your immune cells travel through the gauntlet of organs and tissues via the blood and lymphatic circulation systems, doing the jobs their supposed to do, they are buffeted by myriad mechanical forces.

It’s…

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“Good morning. Bill. Please. Step onto the scale. Touch the metal pads.” The device records an electrocardiogram from Bill’s fingers and - more importantly – circulation pulsing that makes his body subtly bob up and…