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The melting of ice sheets at the points where they float on and along the world’s oceans is a major climate culprit when it comes to sea level rise. But less is understood about the extent of melting that is due to warm, salty seawater that seeps underneath “grounded” portions of ice sheets along land, as well as what happens when that mix…
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Eleven hours after a massive volcanic explosion rocked the Pacific Island nation of Tonga, sound waves from the blast rolled over the state of Georgia – though not many people beyond John Trostel may have noticed. Director of the Severe Storms Research Center (SSRC) at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), Trostel saw the rumbling sound…
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Soldiers, students, and researchers joined together at the first-ever Marne Innovation Workshop to solve today’s problems. The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) helped host the 3rd Infantry Division (3rd ID) and Georgia Tech’s Army ROTC during the four-day-long event, which was held Jan. 6 to Jan. 9 and focused on innovation through…
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Two teams of researchers from the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering have received Department of Energy funding to work with corporate partners to reduce the energy consumption and carbon emissions of energy intensive manufacturing processes. Principal investigator Professor Cyrus Aidun, along with Eugene C. Gwaltney…
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The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has elected three faculty from Georgia Tech and Emory University to the newest class of AAAS Fellows, one of the highest distinctions in the scientific community: Kim M. Cobb, Georgia Power Chair, director of the Global Change Program, and ADVANCE Professor in the School of Earth…
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Renters with little incentive to save energy burn millions of dollars a year in excess energy and pollution costs, according to a new study from Georgia Tech’s School of Economics. Assistant professor Dylan Brewer’s analysis, published in the Journal of Urban Economics, found that renters in units where…
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In people with autism, neural “traffic jams” may slow the flow of information along visual routes in the brain, delaying timely, responsive actions. Just as highway departments study vehicle traffic flow, Georgia Tech and Emory researcher Bilal Haider is studying neural traffic in the brain to understand the holdups, and his…
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Today, Airbnb announced it selected the Interlock at 14th Street and Howell Mill Road in Atlanta’s West Midtown as the new home for its planned technical hub. The tech hub is slated to open later this year — subject to pandemic conditions. It follows Airbnb’s 2020 announcement of its plans to open a technical hub in Atlanta to…
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Zeolites, which are crystalline porous materials, are very widely used in the production of chemicals, fuels, materials, and other products. So far, zeolites have been made as 3D or 2D materials. This has changed with the recent discovery of crystalline zeolites in a nanotubular (1D) shape, by researchers at the Georgia Institute of…
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Microorganisms are highly abundant in the surface ocean, reaching densities exceeding a billion organisms per liter. Collectively responsible for roughly half of global carbon fixation, diverse groups of microbes coexist while relying on limited nutrients even as some microbes depend on energy from the sun to grow via photosynthesis. …
