Latest news from Georgia Institute of Technology on Newswise en-us Copyright 2024 Newswise 115 31 / /images/newswise-logo-rss.gif /articles/clearing-the-air-georgia-tech-takes-leading-role-in-scrubbing-the-atmosphere/?sc=rsin /articles/clearing-the-air-georgia-tech-takes-leading-role-in-scrubbing-the-atmosphere/?sc=rsin Thu, 29 Aug 2024 07:05:44 EST From R&D to national lab/corporate partnerships, commercialization, and community engagement, Georgia Tech is at the forefront of developing and deploying negative emissions technologies, such as direct air capture. Georgia Institute of Technology /articles/georgia-tech-neuroscientists-explore-the-intersection-of-music-and-memory/?sc=rsin /articles/georgia-tech-neuroscientists-explore-the-intersection-of-music-and-memory/?sc=rsin Wed, 28 Aug 2024 22:05:38 EST Yiren Ren's research explores music's impact on learning, memory, and emotions in two studies. One reveals that familiar music enhances concentration and learning; the other demonstrates that music with a strong emotional tone can reshape the quality of existing memories. Georgia Institute of Technology /articles/using-ai-to-find-the-polymers-of-the-future/?sc=rsin /articles/using-ai-to-find-the-polymers-of-the-future/?sc=rsin Mon, 19 Aug 2024 18:05:58 EST Finding the next groundbreaking polymer is always a challenge, but now Georgia Tech researchers are using artificial intelligence (AI) to shape and transform the future of the field. Rampi Ramprasad's group develops and adapts AI algorithms to accelerate materials discovery. Georgia Institute of Technology /articles/a-new-neural-network-makes-decisions-like-a-human-would/?sc=rsin /articles/a-new-neural-network-makes-decisions-like-a-human-would/?sc=rsin Mon, 15 Jul 2024 10:05:28 EST Now, Georgia Tech researchers in Associate Professor Dobromir Rahnev's lab are training them to make decisions more like humans. This science of human decision-making is only just being applied to machine learning, but developing a neural network even closer to the actual human brain may make it more reliable, according to the researchers. Georgia Institute of Technology /articles/the-geometry-of-life-physicists-determine-what-controls-biofilm-growth/?sc=rsin /articles/the-geometry-of-life-physicists-determine-what-controls-biofilm-growth/?sc=rsin Tue, 09 Jul 2024 16:05:51 EST A groundbreaking new study led by Georgia Institute of Technology's Aawaz Pokhrel and published in Nature Physics has revealed that geometry influences biofilm growth more than anything else, including the rate at which cells can reproduce. Georgia Institute of Technology /articles/nanowires-create-elite-warriors-to-enhance-t-cell-therapy/?sc=rsin /articles/nanowires-create-elite-warriors-to-enhance-t-cell-therapy/?sc=rsin Mon, 24 Jun 2024 20:05:54 EST Georgia Tech bioengineer Ankur Singh and his team have developed a method to enhance adoptive T-cell therapy using nanowires to deliver miRNA to T-cells, preserving their naive state for more effective disease-fighting. This innovative technique allows the T-cells to remain programmable and robust, offering a potential gamechanger for immunotherapies. Georgia Institute of Technology /articles/novel-use-of-existing-drug-could-significantly-cut-heart-attack-risk/?sc=rsin /articles/novel-use-of-existing-drug-could-significantly-cut-heart-attack-risk/?sc=rsin Tue, 18 Jun 2024 15:05:03 EST Heart attacks have been the leading cause of death in the U.S. for a century. While most treatments for cardiac events target breaking down blood clots, Georgia Tech researchers have found a way to prevent blood clots from even forming. Dramatically, their drug is shown to completely knock out the formation of blood clots without increasing the risks of bleeds in vivo. Georgia Institute of Technology /articles/weaker-ocean-currents-lead-to-decline-in-nutrients-for-north-atlantic-ocean-life-during-prehistoric-climate-change-research-shows/?sc=rsin /articles/weaker-ocean-currents-lead-to-decline-in-nutrients-for-north-atlantic-ocean-life-during-prehistoric-climate-change-research-shows/?sc=rsin Thu, 09 May 2024 16:05:28 EST In a first-of-its kind study, researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have investigated how the prehistoric weakening of a major ocean current led to a decline in ocean nutrients and negative impacts on North Atlantic ocean life. The results support predictions about how our oceans might react to a changing climate -- and what that means for ocean life. Georgia Institute of Technology /articles/georgia-tech-researchers-develop-more-broadly-protective-coronavirus-vaccine/?sc=rsin /articles/georgia-tech-researchers-develop-more-broadly-protective-coronavirus-vaccine/?sc=rsin Mon, 01 Apr 2024 13:05:49 EST Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a new vaccine that offers broad protection against not only SARS-CoV-2 variants, but also other bat sarbecoviruses. Georgia Institute of Technology /articles/researchers-reveal-roadmap-for-ai-innovation-in-brain-and-language-learning/?sc=rsin /articles/researchers-reveal-roadmap-for-ai-innovation-in-brain-and-language-learning/?sc=rsin Thu, 21 Mar 2024 12:45:29 EST A new study co-led by Georgia Institute of Technology's Anna (Anya) Ivanova uncovers the relationship between language and thought in artificial intelligence models like ChatGPT, leveraging cognitive neuroscience research on the human brain. The results are a roadmap to developing new AIs -- and to better understanding how we think and communicate. Georgia Institute of Technology /articles/janitors-of-the-sea-overharvested-sea-cucumbers-play-crucial-role-in-protecting-coral/?sc=rsin /articles/janitors-of-the-sea-overharvested-sea-cucumbers-play-crucial-role-in-protecting-coral/?sc=rsin Tue, 27 Feb 2024 09:25:23 EST In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology discovered that sea cucumbers -- sediment-eating organisms that function like autonomous vacuum cleaners of the ocean floor -- play an enormous role in protecting coral from disease. The problem is, they've been overharvested for more than 100 years, and they're now rare. Georgia Institute of Technology /articles/new-ion-cooling-technique-could-simplify-quantum-computing-devices/?sc=rsin /articles/new-ion-cooling-technique-could-simplify-quantum-computing-devices/?sc=rsin Mon, 05 Feb 2024 20:05:24 EST A new cooling technique that utilizes a single species of trapped ion for both computing and cooling could simplify the use of quantum charge-coupled devices (QCCDs), potentially moving quantum computing closer to practical applications. Georgia Institute of Technology /articles/researchers-leverage-ai-to-develop-early-diagnostic-test-for-ovarian-cancer/?sc=rsin /articles/researchers-leverage-ai-to-develop-early-diagnostic-test-for-ovarian-cancer/?sc=rsin Mon, 29 Jan 2024 12:45:04 EST The Georgia Tech Integrated Cancer Research Center has combined machine learning with information on blood metabolites to develop a new early diagnostic test that detects ovarian cancer with 93 percent accuracy. Georgia Institute of Technology /articles/researchers-create-light-powered-yeast-providing-insights-into-evolution-biofuels-cellular-aging/?sc=rsin /articles/researchers-create-light-powered-yeast-providing-insights-into-evolution-biofuels-cellular-aging/?sc=rsin Fri, 12 Jan 2024 11:00:00 EST Georgia Tech researchers have engineered one of the world's first yeast cells able to harness energy from light, expanding our understanding of the evolution of this trait -- and paving the way for advancements in biofuel production and cellular aging. Georgia Institute of Technology /articles/researchers-create-first-functional-semiconductor-made-from-graphene/?sc=rsin /articles/researchers-create-first-functional-semiconductor-made-from-graphene/?sc=rsin Wed, 03 Jan 2024 11:00:20 EST Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have created the world's first functional semiconductor made from graphene, a single sheet of carbon atoms held together by the strongest bonds known. The breakthrough throws open the door to a new way of doing electronics. Video summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWUX2OTqkEo Georgia Institute of Technology /articles/ethical-leaders-promote-creative-teams-under-the-right-conditions/?sc=rsin /articles/ethical-leaders-promote-creative-teams-under-the-right-conditions/?sc=rsin Mon, 11 Dec 2023 11:05:04 EST In a world where CEOs become thought leaders, being an ethical leader is paramount. But does this type of leader inspire their team to be creative? For years, it's been a common assumption in the organizational behavior field that the more ethical a leader is, the less innovative their employees are. Georgia Institute of Technology /articles/residential-solar-power-saves-less-energy-than-expected/?sc=rsin /articles/residential-solar-power-saves-less-energy-than-expected/?sc=rsin Mon, 20 Nov 2023 15:05:00 EST This paradox is called the solar rebound effect: the ratio of the increase in energy consumption to the amount that is generated by the solar panels. In new research out of the Georgia Institute of Technology, Matthew Oliver, an associate professor in the School of Economics, presented this argument for how the economics of solar power really work, in "Tipping the Scale: Why Utility-Scale Solar Avoids a Solar Rebound and What It Means for U.S. Solar Policy," published in The Electricity Journal. Georgia Institute of Technology /articles/genetics-study-shines-light-on-health-disparities-for-ibd/?sc=rsin /articles/genetics-study-shines-light-on-health-disparities-for-ibd/?sc=rsin Thu, 16 Nov 2023 12:05:31 EST In a new study, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology investigated whether 25 rare gene variants known to be associated with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) play a role in risk for African Americans. Georgia Institute of Technology /articles/long-term-lizard-study-challenges-the-rules-of-evolutionary-biology/?sc=rsin /articles/long-term-lizard-study-challenges-the-rules-of-evolutionary-biology/?sc=rsin Mon, 09 Oct 2023 15:00:00 EST James Stroud, assistant professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, measured natural selection in four Anolis lizard species in the wild for five consecutive time periods over three years. Georgia Institute of Technology /articles/how-insects-evolved-to-ultrafast-flight-and-back/?sc=rsin /articles/how-insects-evolved-to-ultrafast-flight-and-back/?sc=rsin Wed, 04 Oct 2023 11:00:00 EST This asynchronous beating comes from how the flight muscles interact with the physics of the insect's springy exoskeleton. This decoupling of neural commands and muscle contractions is common in only four distinct insect groups. For years, scientists assumed these four groups evolved these ultrafast wingbeats separately, but research from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) shows that they evolved from a single common ancestor. This discovery demonstrates evolution has repeatedly turned on and off this particular mode of flight. The researchers developed physics models and robotics to test how these transitions could occur. Georgia Institute of Technology