{"689767":{"#nid":"689767","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"As astronauts head for a trip around the moon, Georgia Tech faculty and students look on","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs astronauts head toward the moon for the first time in decades, engineers and scientists at Georgia Tech are looking on with excitement. The current Artemis II mission is set to take four astronauts around the moon.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe previous Artemis mission in 2022 was unmanned, but researchers from Georgia Tech contributed to it. With this mission, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2026\/03\/welcome-future-artemis-ii-set-launch-moon\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech grads are involved\u003C\/a\u003E, including people who lead teams that worked on the launch and will recover the crew and the spacecraft from the Pacific Ocean when they return to Earth. [\u2026] Last year, Georgia Tech created its \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/space.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESpace Research Institute\u003C\/a\u003E to pull together faculty, staff and students who work on space from different areas, including engineering, science and business.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs astronauts head toward the moon for the first time in decades, engineers and scientists at Georgia Tech are looking on with excitement. The current Artemis II mission is set to take four astronauts around the moon.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe previous Artemis mission in 2022 was unmanned, but researchers from Georgia Tech contributed to it. With this mission, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2026\/03\/welcome-future-artemis-ii-set-launch-moon\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech grads are involved\u003C\/a\u003E, including people who lead teams that worked on the launch and will recover the crew and the spacecraft from the Pacific Ocean when they return to Earth. [\u2026] Last year, Georgia Tech created its \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/space.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESpace Research Institute\u003C\/a\u003E to pull together faculty, staff and students who work on space from different areas, including engineering, science and business.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2026-04-15 16:00:33","changed_gmt":"2026-04-16 13:41:41","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"NPR\/WABE","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.wabe.org\/as-astronauts-head-for-a-trip-around-the-moon-ga-tech-faculty-and-students-look-on\/","dateline":{"date":"2026-04-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-04-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"192252","name":"cos-planetary"},{"id":"172511","name":"Frontiers Conference"},{"id":"190596","name":"space research"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"689766":{"#nid":"689766","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Georgia Tech experts hope Artemis II launch renews interest in space exploration","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe successful launch of Artemis II has renewed interest in space exploration, and experts at Georgia Tech say the mission could inspire a new generation while advancing technologies that benefit life on Earth.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe technologies we create, the money we spend on this, benefit life on earth,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/space.gatech.edu\/w-jud-ready\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJud Ready\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, executive director of Georgia Tech\u2019s Space Research Institute, who oversees tens of millions of dollars of space research. [\u2026]Just like Apollo inspired a generation, the hope is that Artemis can as well.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudents stopped by a series of telescopes set out by Georgia Tech\u2019s Astronomy Club on Thursday morning, peering at the sun and asking questions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMost were answered by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/paul-sell\u0022\u003EPaul Sell\u003C\/a\u003E, who directs Tech\u2019s observatory. \u201cThe sun is very active,\u201d he explained to one student. \u201cIt goes through 11-year cycles.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe successful launch of Artemis II has renewed interest in space exploration, and experts at Georgia Tech say the mission could inspire a new generation while advancing technologies that benefit life on Earth.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe technologies we create, the money we spend on this, benefit life on earth,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/space.gatech.edu\/w-jud-ready\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJud Ready\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, executive director of Georgia Tech\u2019s Space Research Institute, who oversees tens of millions of dollars of space research. [\u2026]Just like Apollo inspired a generation, the hope is that Artemis can as well.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudents stopped by a series of telescopes set out by Georgia Tech\u2019s Astronomy Club on Thursday morning, peering at the sun and asking questions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMost were answered by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/paul-sell\u0022\u003EPaul Sell\u003C\/a\u003E, who directs Tech\u2019s observatory. \u201cThe sun is very active,\u201d he explained to one student. \u201cIt goes through 11-year cycles.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2026-04-15 15:57:24","changed_gmt":"2026-04-16 13:40:37","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Atlanta News First","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.atlantanewsfirst.com\/2026\/04\/02\/georgia-tech-experts-hope-artemis-ii-launch-renews-interest-space-exploration\/","dateline":{"date":"2026-04-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-04-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"192252","name":"cos-planetary"},{"id":"172511","name":"Frontiers Conference"},{"id":"190596","name":"space research"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"689765":{"#nid":"689765","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"5 Behaviors That Seem Antisocial But Are Actually Signs Of A Highly Intelligent Person","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhile it often gets written off as being distracted or not paying attention, daydreaming is actually a sign of an active and imaginative mind. In fact, a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/news.gatech.edu\/news\/2017\/10\/24\/daydreaming-good-it-means-youre-smart\u0022\u003E2017 study found\u003C\/a\u003E that daydreamers are generally smarter than their focused peers. \u201cPeople with efficient brains may have too much brain capacity to stop their minds from wandering,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/people\/eric-schumacher\u0022\u003EEric Schumacher\u003C\/a\u003E, the Georgia Tech psychology professor who co-authored the study.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPeople who daydream frequently have things running through their heads, whether they are thinking through ideas or picturing possible outcomes. Letting the mind wander allows unexpected connections to form. To an outside observer, they may seem checked out of reality. However, other highly intellectual people know that they\u0027re truly deeply engaged, just not with what\u0027s going on right in front of them.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhile it often gets written off as being distracted or not paying attention, daydreaming is actually a sign of an active and imaginative mind. In fact, a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/news.gatech.edu\/news\/2017\/10\/24\/daydreaming-good-it-means-youre-smart\u0022\u003E2017 study found\u003C\/a\u003E that daydreamers are generally smarter than their focused peers. \u201cPeople with efficient brains may have too much brain capacity to stop their minds from wandering,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/people\/eric-schumacher\u0022\u003EEric Schumacher\u003C\/a\u003E, the Georgia Tech psychology professor who co-authored the study.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPeople who daydream frequently have things running through their heads, whether they are thinking through ideas or picturing possible outcomes. Letting the mind wander allows unexpected connections to form. To an outside observer, they may seem checked out of reality. However, other highly intellectual people know that they\u0027re truly deeply engaged, just not with what\u0027s going on right in front of them.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2026-04-15 15:54:53","changed_gmt":"2026-04-16 13:39:23","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Your Tango","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.yourtango.com\/self\/behaviors-seem-antisocial-signs-highly-intelligent-person","dateline":{"date":"2026-04-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-04-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"443951","name":"School of Psychology"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"192253","name":"cos-neuro"},{"id":"176018","name":"Daydreaming"},{"id":"167710","name":"School of Psychology"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"689764":{"#nid":"689764","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"AI is reengineering drug discovery by speeding up testing and scanning petabytes of data for connections between\u00a0diseases","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn December, \u003Cem\u003EThe Conversation\u003C\/em\u003E hosted a webinar on AI\u2019s revolutionary role in drug discovery and development. Science and technology editor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/theconversation.com\/profiles\/eric-smalley-944964\u0022\u003EEric Smalley\u003C\/a\u003E interviewed \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/jeffrey-skolnick\u0022\u003EJeffrey Skolnick\u003C\/a\u003E, Regents\u0027 Professor and eminent scholar in computational systems biology at Georgia Institute of Technology, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/pharmacology\/person\/ben-brown\/\u0022\u003EBenjamin P. Brown\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor of pharmacology at Vanderbilt University. Skolnick has developed AI-based approaches to predict protein structure and function that may help with drug discovery and finding off-label uses of existing drugs. Brown\u2019s lab works on creating new computer models that make drug discovery faster and more reliable.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn December, \u003Cem\u003EThe Conversation\u003C\/em\u003E hosted a webinar on AI\u2019s revolutionary role in drug discovery and development. Science and technology editor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/theconversation.com\/profiles\/eric-smalley-944964\u0022\u003EEric Smalley\u003C\/a\u003E interviewed \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/jeffrey-skolnick\u0022\u003EJeffrey Skolnick\u003C\/a\u003E, Regents\u0027 Professor and eminent scholar in computational systems biology at Georgia Institute of Technology, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/pharmacology\/person\/ben-brown\/\u0022\u003EBenjamin P. Brown\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor of pharmacology at Vanderbilt University. Skolnick has developed AI-based approaches to predict protein structure and function that may help with drug discovery and finding off-label uses of existing drugs. Brown\u2019s lab works on creating new computer models that make drug discovery faster and more reliable.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2026-04-15 15:53:05","changed_gmt":"2026-04-16 13:35:24","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"The Conversation ","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/ai-is-reengineering-drug-discovery-by-speeding-up-testing-and-scanning-petabytes-of-data-for-connections-between-diseases-274693","dateline":{"date":"2026-04-07T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-04-07T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"194606","name":"Artificial Intelligence"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"192258","name":"cos-data"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"689303":{"#nid":"689303","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Go pound sand? Eroding federal beach repair funds worry Georgia vacation mecca.","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/robel-alexander\u0022\u003EAlex Robel\u003C\/a\u003E, an associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech, said pumping sand onshore is far from a perfect solution to stabilize a beach, but it\u2019s \u201cone of the best tools we have in our arsenal.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s been done in the United States for almost a century in different places and we know how to do it,\u201d Robel said. \u201cWe\u2019re good at it.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut nourishment is only a Band-Aid for erosion. Once cities start replenishing sand, Robel said they have to keep doing it regularly.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/robel-alexander\u0022\u003EAlex Robel\u003C\/a\u003E, an associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech, said pumping sand onshore is far from a perfect solution to stabilize a beach, but it\u2019s \u201cone of the best tools we have in our arsenal.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s been done in the United States for almost a century in different places and we know how to do it,\u201d Robel said. \u201cWe\u2019re good at it.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut nourishment is only a Band-Aid for erosion. Once cities start replenishing sand, Robel said they have to keep doing it regularly.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2026-04-01 13:30:14","changed_gmt":"2026-04-01 15:30:45","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Atlanta Journal Constitution","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/2026\/03\/go-pound-sand-eroding-federal-beach-repair-funds-worry-georgia-vacation-mecca\/","dateline":{"date":"2026-03-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-03-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"175593","name":"School  of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"64881","name":"erosion"},{"id":"192254","name":"cos-climate"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"689304":{"#nid":"689304","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Why mosquitoes always find you and how they decide to attack","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EA team of researchers including\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/people\/david-hu\u0022\u003EDavid Hu\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorge W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, have visualized mosquito flight behavior for the first time.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EBased on their data, the researchers said they don\u2019t think mosquitoes swarm because they\u2019re following the pack. Each appeared to pick up on the cues independently, then found themselves at the same place at the same time.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s like a crowded bar,\u201d said Hu. \u201cCustomers aren\u2019t there because they followed each other into the bar. They\u2019re attracted by the same cues: drinks, music, and the atmosphere. The same is true of mosquitoes. Rather than following the leader, the insect follows the signals and happens to arrive at the same spot as the others. They\u2019re good copies of each other.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EA similar story was published by\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/new-updates\/why-mosquitoes-bite-some-people-more-and-easy-prevention-tips\/articleshow\/129802032.cms\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Economic Times\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EA team of researchers including\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/people\/david-hu\u0022\u003EDavid Hu\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorge W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, have visualized mosquito flight behavior for the first time.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EBased on their data, the researchers said they don\u2019t think mosquitoes swarm because they\u2019re following the pack. Each appeared to pick up on the cues independently, then found themselves at the same place at the same time.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s like a crowded bar,\u201d said Hu. \u201cCustomers aren\u2019t there because they followed each other into the bar. They\u2019re attracted by the same cues: drinks, music, and the atmosphere. The same is true of mosquitoes. Rather than following the leader, the insect follows the signals and happens to arrive at the same spot as the others. They\u2019re good copies of each other.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EA similar story was published by\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/new-updates\/why-mosquitoes-bite-some-people-more-and-easy-prevention-tips\/articleshow\/129802032.cms\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Economic Times\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2026-04-01 13:32:02","changed_gmt":"2026-04-01 15:28:27","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"ScienceDaily ","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2026\/03\/260322020247.htm","dateline":{"date":"2026-03-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-03-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"35131","name":"mosquitoes"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"689052":{"#nid":"689052","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Listen: Why is protein having a moment? ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIf you\u2019ve walked the aisles of a grocery store, scrolled through social media, watched television, or set foot in a fast-casual restaurant chain in recent months, you know that protein is having its moment.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESo, why are brands pushing protein? An \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ific.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IFIC-Spotlight-Survey-Protein-Perceptions.pdf\u0022\u003EInternational Food Information Council study\u003C\/a\u003E found that 70% of adults are looking to increase their protein intake. But as it makes its way into more products than ever before, is it too much of a good thing?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/lesley-baradel\u0022\u003ELesley Baradel\u003C\/a\u003E is a registered dietitian, nutritionist, and lecturer in the College of Sciences at Georgia Tech. In this \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/news.gatech.edu\/features\/2026\/02\/generating-buzz-protein-packed-industry\u0022\u003Eepisode of \u0022Generating Buzz\u003C\/a\u003E\u0022, she digs into the protein-packed trend, with implications ranging from health and wellness to marketing and how the rise of GLP-1s factors into the increased focus on the macronutrient.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIf you\u2019ve walked the aisles of a grocery store, scrolled through social media, watched television, or set foot in a fast-casual restaurant chain in recent months, you know that protein is having its moment.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESo, why are brands pushing protein? An \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ific.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IFIC-Spotlight-Survey-Protein-Perceptions.pdf\u0022\u003EInternational Food Information Council study\u003C\/a\u003E found that 70% of adults are looking to increase their protein intake. But as it makes its way into more products than ever before, is it too much of a good thing?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/lesley-baradel\u0022\u003ELesley Baradel\u003C\/a\u003E is a registered dietitian, nutritionist, and lecturer in the College of Sciences at Georgia Tech. 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He is best known for discovering a fundamental mechanism of chaos in dynamical systems, including systems of chaotic billiards such as the Bunimovich stadium, Bunimovich flowers, and elliptic flowers. Learn about his research in this 2023 news story: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/news\/bringing-understanding-chaotic-dynamics-billiards-flowers-and-mushrooms\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EBringing Understanding to Chaotic Dynamics with Billiards, Flowers, and ... 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Learn about his research in this 2023 news story: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/news\/bringing-understanding-chaotic-dynamics-billiards-flowers-and-mushrooms\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EBringing Understanding to Chaotic Dynamics with Billiards, Flowers, and ... 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Their work addresses a fundamental problem in condensed matter physics: the destabilisation of phases like superfluids by thermally-induced defects such as anyons and vortices.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAssistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/zhu-xi-luo\u0022\u003EZhu-Xi Luo\u003C\/a\u003E and Ph.D. student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/yi-lin-tsao\u0022\u003EYi-Lin Tsao\u003C\/a\u003E from Georgia Institute of Technology\u0027s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E have demonstrated a novel mechanism for stabilising physical phases vulnerable to topological defects. Their work addresses a fundamental problem in condensed matter physics: the destabilisation of phases like superfluids by thermally-induced defects such as anyons and vortices.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2026-03-03 20:48:23","changed_gmt":"2026-03-04 16:41:46","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Quantum Zeitgeist","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/quantumzeitgeist.com\/entropy-shields-materials-disruptive-defects-heat\/","dateline":{"date":"2026-02-25T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2026-02-25T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"192251","name":"cos-quantum"},{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"688712":{"#nid":"688712","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Imperfections: Barrier or Boost to Material Strength?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearch led by Georgia Tech physicist \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/itamar-kolvin\u0022\u003EItamar Kolvin\u003C\/a\u003E has found that the presence of small imperfections or heterogeneities in materials can have a dual effect on their strength and resilience. While heterogeneities were historically believed to make materials stronger by creating an obstacle course for cracks, the new study shows that in some complex materials, heterogeneities can actually accelerate crack propagation and weaken the overall structure. The findings have implications for how engineers design and reinforce materials to optimize their toughness.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearch led by Georgia Tech physicist \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/itamar-kolvin\u0022\u003EItamar Kolvin\u003C\/a\u003E has found that the presence of small imperfections or heterogeneities in materials can have a dual effect on their strength and resilience. While heterogeneities were historically believed to make materials stronger by creating an obstacle course for cracks, the new study shows that in some complex materials, heterogeneities can actually accelerate crack propagation and weaken the overall structure. The findings have implications for how engineers design and reinforce materials to optimize their toughness.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2026-03-03 20:49:50","changed_gmt":"2026-03-04 16:40:23","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Atlanta Today","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/nationaltoday.com\/us\/ga\/atlanta\/news\/2026\/02\/27\/imperfections-barrier-or-boost-to-material-strength\/","dateline":{"date":"2026-02-27T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2026-02-27T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"179013","name":"Material Science"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"688713":{"#nid":"688713","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Infant visual system categorizes common objects by 2 months of age","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/people\/apurva-ratan-murty\u0022\u003ERatan Murty\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Psychology\u003C\/a\u003E, discusses a new functional MRI \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41593-025-02187-8\u0022\u003Estudy\u003C\/a\u003E published in \u003Cem\u003ENature Neuroscience\u003C\/em\u003E which found that at two months old, babies\u2019 visual systems appear ready to distinguish among a variety of common objects.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMurty says the study\u2019s findings should prompt researchers to reconsider how infants learn to process the world. Cognitive development is often regarded as a bottom-up process, in which \u201cthe early visual regions that encode simpler features develop first, and higher-level regions that encode more complex features emerge later.\u201d Instead, brain maturation is \u201cnon-hierarchical,\u201d he says, with the more complex visual ventral cortex developing before the lateral occipitotemporal cortex.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/people\/apurva-ratan-murty\u0022\u003ERatan Murty\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Psychology\u003C\/a\u003E, discusses a new functional MRI \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41593-025-02187-8\u0022\u003Estudy\u003C\/a\u003E published in \u003Cem\u003ENature Neuroscience\u003C\/em\u003E which found that at two months old, babies\u2019 visual systems appear ready to distinguish among a variety of common objects.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMurty says the study\u2019s findings should prompt researchers to reconsider how infants learn to process the world. Cognitive development is often regarded as a bottom-up process, in which \u201cthe early visual regions that encode simpler features develop first, and higher-level regions that encode more complex features emerge later.\u201d Instead, brain maturation is \u201cnon-hierarchical,\u201d he says, with the more complex visual ventral cortex developing before the lateral occipitotemporal cortex.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2026-03-03 20:51:36","changed_gmt":"2026-03-04 16:38:55","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"The Transmitter","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.thetransmitter.org\/cognitive-neuroscience\/infant-visual-system-categorizes-common-objects-by-2-months-of-age\/","dateline":{"date":"2026-02-24T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2026-02-24T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"443951","name":"School of Psychology"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"167710","name":"School of Psychology"},{"id":"192253","name":"cos-neuro"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"688354":{"#nid":"688354","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Can flickering lights and sound slow Alzheimer\u2019s? 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Building on that knowledge, she hopes to develop new ways to treat the disease.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cWe are taking a really different approach to Alzheimer\u2019s,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019ve determined how neural activity that is essential for memory fails in Alzheimer\u2019s disease. We\u2019re then using that information to develop brain stimulation that could improve brain health.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ECan Alzheimer\u2019s disease be slowed by flickering lights and sound?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThat is the question that drives\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/neuro.gatech.edu\/user\/1105\u0022\u003EAnnabelle Singer\u003C\/a\u003E, a McCamish Foundation Early Career Professor in the Wallace H.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EWallace H. 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Does that mean it\u0027s thinking like us? The third episode of \u0022Brainwaves\u0022 explores what artificial intelligence teaches us about our own capacity for thought. The episode includes expert commentary from\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/people\/anna-ivanova\u0022\u003EAnna Ivanova\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Psychology\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe rate at which artificial intelligence is able to replicate human behavior has increased in recent years. Does that mean it\u0027s thinking like us? The third episode of \u0022Brainwaves\u0022 explores what artificial intelligence teaches us about our own capacity for thought. The episode includes expert commentary from\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/people\/anna-ivanova\u0022\u003EAnna Ivanova\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Psychology\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2026-02-17 21:43:21","changed_gmt":"2026-02-18 16:00:11","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"WBUR On Point","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/onpoint\/2026\/02\/11\/brainwaves-artificial-intelligence-human-behavior","dateline":{"date":"2026-02-11T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2026-02-11T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"443951","name":"School of Psychology"}],"categories":[{"id":"194606","name":"Artificial Intelligence"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"192253","name":"cos-neuro"},{"id":"187812","name":"artificial intelligence (AI)"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"688356":{"#nid":"688356","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"These synthetic polymers can grow, shrink, heal, and reshape themselves like living tissue","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EUntil now, no one had built a synthetic material that could simultaneously absorb chemical building blocks, polymerize them into its own network, relieve the mechanical stresses that accumulate during the process, and reverse the whole sequence on demand. A new study published in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EAdvanced Materials\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E(\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/doi:10.1002\/adma.202518567\u0022\u003E\u0022Rewriting Polymer Fate via Chemomechanical Coupling\u0022\u003C\/a\u003E) reports a polymer platform that accomplishes exactly that. A team at the Georgia Institute of Technology including Associate Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/will-gutekunst\u0022\u003EWill Gutekunst\u003C\/a\u003E of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E, with collaborators at North Carolina State University, created what they call a \u0022living\u0022 polymer: a material that can grow, shrink, heal, change its stiffness by roughly 100-fold, and be recycled back to raw monomers, all post-fabrication.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EUntil now, no one had built a synthetic material that could simultaneously absorb chemical building blocks, polymerize them into its own network, relieve the mechanical stresses that accumulate during the process, and reverse the whole sequence on demand. 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His work has revolved around studying lizards that survive significant cold snaps and then testing to see how their tolerance changes afterward.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u0022Prior to the cold snap event, all lizards could tolerate temps around 46 to 50 degrees,\u0022 Stroud said. \u0022After they experienced colder temps than they had experienced in the previous few winters, they could suddenly tolerate colder temps, down to around 42 Fahrenheit.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EResearch done in recent years after Florida\u0027s last historic cold snap reveals that the temperature at which iguanas become cold-stunned may be lower than what was commonly believed before.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u0022As a scientist, I was fascinated why these lizards can now tolerate a colder temperature than they had recently, prior to this cold snap,\u0022 reptile researcher\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/james-stroud\u0022\u003EJames Stroud\u003C\/a\u003E of Georgia Tech\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E told Gulf Coast News via Zoom.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EStroud has been studying invasive lizards of all sizes with a particular focus on understanding their tolerance for cold temperatures. 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And because the\u0026nbsp;iguanas\u0026nbsp;tend to sleep in trees, getting cold shocked can sometimes cause the animals to fall from the skies in an\u0026nbsp;infamous Florida phenomenon.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThese tropical lizards were experiencing conditions that they\u2019ve never experienced in their entire evolutionary history before, tens of millions of years,\u201d says \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/james-stroud\u0022\u003EJames Stroud\u003C\/a\u003E, an evolutionary biologist at the Georgia Institute of Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut in Florida, colder conditions occur every few years\u2014albeit less often as temperatures rise because of\u0026nbsp;climate change. 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And because the\u0026nbsp;iguanas\u0026nbsp;tend to sleep in trees, getting cold shocked can sometimes cause the animals to fall from the skies in an\u0026nbsp;infamous Florida phenomenon.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThese tropical lizards were experiencing conditions that they\u2019ve never experienced in their entire evolutionary history before, tens of millions of years,\u201d says \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/james-stroud\u0022\u003EJames Stroud\u003C\/a\u003E, an evolutionary biologist at the Georgia Institute of Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut in Florida, colder conditions occur every few years\u2014albeit less often as temperatures rise because of\u0026nbsp;climate change. The experience of the iguanas that have been forced to confront the cold in the state can teach scientists more about how animals respond to new climates more generally, Stroud says.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2026-01-21 20:28:50","changed_gmt":"2026-01-22 16:24:10","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Scientific American","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/its-so-cold-in-florida-that-iguanas-might-rain-from-the-skies\/","dateline":{"date":"2026-01-16T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2026-01-16T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"192254","name":"cos-climate"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"687569":{"#nid":"687569","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Yellow Jackets Featured Among Most Influential Georgians","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor their leadership across various industries and positive contributions to their communities, 12 Georgia Tech alumni are among\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EGeorgia Trend\u003C\/em\u003E\u2019s 100 Most Influential Georgians for 2026.\u0026nbsp;The list includes two College of Sciences alumni, Georgia Tech President \u003Cstrong\u003E\u00c1ngel Cabrera \u003C\/strong\u003E(M.S. 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Others took a different approach, assigning students to edit Wikipedia entries\u2014many through Wiki Education.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EJennifer Glass, a biogeochemist at Georgia Institute of Technology, is one of those professors; she has incorporated Wikipedia editing into her teaching since 2018. She wanted a student project that emphasized the concise and technical but understandable writing style that the site uses. And although she hadn\u2019t done much editing for Wikipedia herself, she was impressed by the website\u2019s breadth of content.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EEach semester, her students write one article from scratch about a topic they research, from dolomitization to the tropopause. 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Others took a different approach, assigning students to edit Wikipedia entries\u2014many through Wiki Education.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EJennifer Glass, a biogeochemist at Georgia Institute of Technology, is one of those professors; she has incorporated Wikipedia editing into her teaching since 2018. She wanted a student project that emphasized the concise and technical but understandable writing style that the site uses. And although she hadn\u2019t done much editing for Wikipedia herself, she was impressed by the website\u2019s breadth of content.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EEach semester, her students write one article from scratch about a topic they research, from dolomitization to the tropopause. 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Gostin\u003C\/strong\u003E (M.S. MATH 1989) has been elected to serve as the President-Elect of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), marking a significant achievement in her decades of technical and professional leadership. Gostin is a former longtime research leader at the Georgia Tech Research Institute.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECollege of Sciences Alum\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EJill I. Gostin\u003C\/strong\u003E (M.S. MATH 1989) has been elected to serve as the President-Elect of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), marking a significant achievement in her decades of technical and professional leadership. 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interlimb training and how it may provide tangible benefits during early-stage rehabilitation following upper limb amputation, especially in cases of partial-hand loss.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA team of researchers from the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E published a paper on interlimb training and how it may provide tangible benefits during early-stage rehabilitation following upper limb amputation, especially in cases of partial-hand loss.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-11-12 18:47:10","changed_gmt":"2025-11-13 15:24:34","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Nature Scientific Reports","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-025-22656-1","dateline":{"date":"2025-11-05T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2025-11-05T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"554","name":"rehabilitation"},{"id":"192253","name":"cos-neuro"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"686061":{"#nid":"686061","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Modeling value integration during decision making under uncertainty with the Florida and Georgia gambling task","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAssociate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/people\/robert-wilson\u0022\u003ERobert Wilson\u003C\/a\u003E of the School of Psychology coauthored a paper on the Florida-And-Georgia (FLAG) gambling task, a novel paradigm developed to study the extent to which cognitive biases influence decision making by altering how values are integrated in choice.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAssociate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/people\/robert-wilson\u0022\u003ERobert Wilson\u003C\/a\u003E of the School of Psychology coauthored a paper on the Florida-And-Georgia (FLAG) gambling task, a novel paradigm developed to study the extent to which cognitive biases influence decision making by altering how values are integrated in choice.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-10-28 20:48:15","changed_gmt":"2025-10-29 14:34:40","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Nature Scientific Reports","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-025-08333-3","dateline":{"date":"2025-10-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-10-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"443951","name":"School of Psychology"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"167710","name":"School of Psychology"},{"id":"82821","name":"decision making"},{"id":"192253","name":"cos-neuro"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"686060":{"#nid":"686060","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Some scientists say it\u2019s time to rethink how we measure hurricanes. Here\u0027s why","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs Hurricane Melissa barrels toward Jamaica as a Category 5 storm, some in the meteorological community are questioning if the traditional way of measuring hurricane strength still tells the full story.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/handlos-zachary\u0022\u003EZachary Handlos\u003C\/a\u003E, director of the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Undergraduate Degree Program at Georgia Tech, believes it might be time to rethink how we classify hurricanes.\u0026nbsp;While the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, which rates storms from Category 1 through 5 based solely on maximum wind speed, has been used for decades, Handlos says it doesn\u2019t always capture a storm\u2019s true impact.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cYou don\u2019t have to be a tropical cyclone expert to know that the scale has some limitations,\u201d Handlos said. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t necessarily portray how strong or impactful a hurricane can be beyond its wind speed.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs Hurricane Melissa barrels toward Jamaica as a Category 5 storm, some in the meteorological community are questioning if the traditional way of measuring hurricane strength still tells the full story.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/handlos-zachary\u0022\u003EZachary Handlos\u003C\/a\u003E, director of the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Undergraduate Degree Program at Georgia Tech, believes it might be time to rethink how we classify hurricanes.\u0026nbsp;While the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, which rates storms from Category 1 through 5 based solely on maximum wind speed, has been used for decades, Handlos says it doesn\u2019t always capture a storm\u2019s true impact.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cYou don\u2019t have to be a tropical cyclone expert to know that the scale has some limitations,\u201d Handlos said. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t necessarily portray how strong or impactful a hurricane can be beyond its wind speed.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-10-28 20:39:03","changed_gmt":"2025-10-29 14:31:52","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"11Alive News","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.11alive.com\/article\/weather\/scientists-say-time-to-rethink-hurricane-measurement\/507-6248741c-bbe2-47c5-a8ee-1c29bd4f100b","dateline":{"date":"2025-10-27T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-10-27T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"1860","name":"hurricane"},{"id":"192254","name":"cos-climate"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"686059":{"#nid":"686059","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Hurricane Melissa threatens catastrophic flash flooding and landslides in the Caribbean","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Blue Mountains in eastern Jamaica could be a region where landslides occur with heavy rain due to steep hill slopes, said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/lang-karl\u0022\u003EKarl Lang\u003C\/a\u003E, an assistant professor of geology at the Georgia Institute of Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELang said regions that have been clearcut for agriculture could be susceptible to landslides because the plants that previously grew there helped bind the soil together by the strength of their roots.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESome roads built on steep hills in Puerto Rico were affected by landslides when Hurricane Fiona (2022) and Hurricane Maria (2017) hit, said Lang. \u201cEvery time you cut into a steep slope, you make a steeper slope above the road,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe real problem there is that you create the road that\u2019s your conduit in and out of the location \u2026 and then the landslide dams the road. You create your own problem both by creating the increased probability of a landslide, but also by having those landslides occur where you need to go,\u201d said Lang.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Blue Mountains in eastern Jamaica could be a region where landslides occur with heavy rain due to steep hill slopes, said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/lang-karl\u0022\u003EKarl Lang\u003C\/a\u003E, an assistant professor of geology at the Georgia Institute of Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELang said regions that have been clearcut for agriculture could be susceptible to landslides because the plants that previously grew there helped bind the soil together by the strength of their roots.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESome roads built on steep hills in Puerto Rico were affected by landslides when Hurricane Fiona (2022) and Hurricane Maria (2017) hit, said Lang. \u201cEvery time you cut into a steep slope, you make a steeper slope above the road,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe real problem there is that you create the road that\u2019s your conduit in and out of the location \u2026 and then the landslide dams the road. 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That\u2019s made some meteorologists reconsider how we measure those storms.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EExperts have used the Saffir-Simpson scale since 1969 to classify hurricanes by their wind speeds, ranging from Category 1 to Category 5.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/handlos-zachary\u0022\u003EZachary Handlos\u003C\/a\u003E, the director of Atmospheric and Oceanic Studies at Georgia Tech which is examining how forecasters currently classify and communicate storm threats, says each storm is different and could result in a range of consequences.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022There\u0027s storm surge [\u2026] there\u0027s inland flooding from the significant rainfall \u2014 that was the big thing with Helene last year in our area,\u0022 he said, noting that previously, Hurricane Irma only brought sustained winds to the region.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022You can also get tornadoes within hurricanes too, so not only are you dealing with flooding, storm surge, you also have to deal with tornadoes in the area at the same time,\u0022 Handlos said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe said any new scale should be complementary to the Saffir-Simpson scale, not replace it, as researchers still rely on it for historical study and communication with the public.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EClimate change is altering the conditions that lead to hurricane development. 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White Award for Interdisciplinary Research","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/marvin-whiteley\u0022\u003EMarvin Whiteley\u003C\/a\u003E has been named the 2026 recipient of the American Society for Microbiology\u0027s D.C. White Award for Interdisciplinary Research. 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Queens mate with males of another species and then clone them, researchers report today in \u003Cem\u003ENature\u003C\/em\u003E, which means this ant is \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-025-09425-w\u0022\u003Ethe only known organism that propagates two species by itself\u003C\/a\u003E. Evolutionary biologist Jonathan Romiguier of the University of Montpellier, who led the team, calls \u003Cem\u003EM. ibericus\u003C\/em\u003E \u201cin a sense, the most complex, colonial life form we know of so far.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe finding \u201cis almost impossible to believe and pushes our understanding of evolutionary biology,\u201d says \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/michael-goodisman\u0022\u003EMichael Goodisman\u003C\/a\u003E, an evolutionary biologist and professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E at the Georgia Institute of Technology who was not involved with the new research. \u201cJust when you think you\u2019ve seen it all, social insects reveal another surprise.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EReproduction is strange in many social insects, but the Iberian harvester ant (\u003Cem\u003EMessor ibericus\u003C\/em\u003E) takes the weirdness to the next level. Queens mate with males of another species and then clone them, researchers report today in \u003Cem\u003ENature\u003C\/em\u003E, which means this ant is \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-025-09425-w\u0022\u003Ethe only known organism that propagates two species by itself\u003C\/a\u003E. Evolutionary biologist Jonathan Romiguier of the University of Montpellier, who led the team, calls \u003Cem\u003EM. ibericus\u003C\/em\u003E \u201cin a sense, the most complex, colonial life form we know of so far.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe finding \u201cis almost impossible to believe and pushes our understanding of evolutionary biology,\u201d says \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/michael-goodisman\u0022\u003EMichael Goodisman\u003C\/a\u003E, an evolutionary biologist and professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E at the Georgia Institute of Technology who was not involved with the new research. \u201cJust when you think you\u2019ve seen it all, social insects reveal another surprise.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-09-08 20:47:25","changed_gmt":"2025-09-09 17:16:28","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Science Magazine","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/ant-queen-lays-eggs-hatch-two-species","dateline":{"date":"2025-09-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-09-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"7802","name":"evolutionary biology"},{"id":"192250","name":"cos-microbial"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"684389":{"#nid":"684389","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Chris Rozell explains how brain stimulation and AI are helping to treat mental disorders","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn an episode of the \u201cBrain Inspired\u201d podcast,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/siplab.gatech.edu\/rozell.html\u0022\u003EChris Rozell\u003C\/a\u003E, director of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/neuro.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EInstitute for Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, and Society\u003C\/a\u003E at the Georgia Institute of Technology, discusses a new biomarker to help clinicians and psychiatrists care for patients with treatment-resistant depression. His team uses deep brain stimulation electrodes to record local field potentials and generative explainable AI to predict patients\u2019 recovery trajectories. Rozell also shares his personal backstory and why community and support are so important in the scientific setting.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn an episode of the \u201cBrain Inspired\u201d podcast,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/siplab.gatech.edu\/rozell.html\u0022\u003EChris Rozell\u003C\/a\u003E, director of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/neuro.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EInstitute for Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, and Society\u003C\/a\u003E at the Georgia Institute of Technology, discusses a new biomarker to help clinicians and psychiatrists care for patients with treatment-resistant depression. His team uses deep brain stimulation electrodes to record local field potentials and generative explainable AI to predict patients\u2019 recovery trajectories. Rozell also shares his personal backstory and why community and support are so important in the scientific setting.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-09-03 17:57:56","changed_gmt":"2025-09-04 14:41:32","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"The Transmitter","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.thetransmitter.org\/brain-inspired\/chris-rozell-explains-how-brain-stimulation-and-ai-are-helping-to-treat-mental-disorders\/","dateline":{"date":"2025-08-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-08-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"192253","name":"cos-neuro"},{"id":"193614","name":"gt-neuro"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"684388":{"#nid":"684388","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"In a new era of wildfires, the Air Quality Index needs a revamp","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe new \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ascent.research.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EAtmospheric Science and Chemistry Measurement Network (ASCENT)\u003C\/a\u003E offers an example of what a stationary network of specialized air quality sensors might look like in the future. The network comprises 12 air-quality-monitoring stations located across the US and maintained by local university scientists. Each station contains a suite of instruments capable of determining the particle size distribution and chemical composition of PM2.5 in real time.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe final ASCENT site began sampling in May 2024, says \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/ng-nga-lee\u0022\u003ENga Lee (Sally) Ng\u003C\/a\u003E, the lead researcher of the network and professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.chbe.gatech.edu\/\u0022 title=\u0022School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Since then, all the sites have been fully operational.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn January, as the Eaton fire burned, its plume blew through an ASCENT site located in southeast Los Angeles. In real time, the local researchers watched the measured concentration of lead-containing PM2.5 jump above safe limits. \u201cWithout the speciated chemical measurement, we would not know that [the community was] being exposed to high levels of lead for a short period of time during the fire,\u201d Ng says.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe data from the LA fires are some of the first the ASCENT team has made publicly available, but ultimately all the data will be available for people to view. 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Each station contains a suite of instruments capable of determining the particle size distribution and chemical composition of PM2.5 in real time.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe final ASCENT site began sampling in May 2024, says \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/ng-nga-lee\u0022\u003ENga Lee (Sally) Ng\u003C\/a\u003E, the lead researcher of the network and professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.chbe.gatech.edu\/\u0022 title=\u0022School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Since then, all the sites have been fully operational.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn January, as the Eaton fire burned, its plume blew through an ASCENT site located in southeast Los Angeles. In real time, the local researchers watched the measured concentration of lead-containing PM2.5 jump above safe limits. \u201cWithout the speciated chemical measurement, we would not know that [the community was] being exposed to high levels of lead for a short period of time during the fire,\u201d Ng says.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe data from the LA fires are some of the first the ASCENT team has made publicly available, but ultimately all the data will be available for people to view. And when it comes to AQI, Ng sees ASCENT as a possible starting point for expanding PM2.5 standards.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-09-03 17:52:29","changed_gmt":"2025-09-04 14:39:54","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Chemical and Engineering News","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/cen.acs.org\/environment\/atmospheric-chemistry\/new-era-wildfires-Air-Quality\/103\/web\/2025\/08","dateline":{"date":"2025-08-27T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-08-27T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"192249","name":"cos-community"},{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"745","name":"air quality"},{"id":"175593","name":"School  of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"684386":{"#nid":"684386","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Can new farming methods reduce greenhouse gases? Georgia Tech professor looks for answers","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA recently published \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s44221-025-00473-0\u0022\u003Estudy\u003C\/a\u003E by the Georgia Institute of Technology reveals that liming, normally used to neutralize the acid in soil, can remove carbon from the atmosphere.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/reinhard-chris\u0022\u003EChris Reinhard\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor of biogeochemistry at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth \u0026amp; Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Institute of Technology, said there\u2019s been interest in the carbon cycle for a long time.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSome of our research at Georgia Tech and research as collaborators looks at the basics of how the Earth\u0027s carbon cycle works in the most general way,\u201d said Reinhard. \u201cBut in the last 10 or so years, we\u0027ve gotten really preoccupied with the impacts of human activity on the carbon cycle. And that spans a whole range of things, because we do all sorts of things to the Earth system as a species.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA recently published \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s44221-025-00473-0\u0022\u003Estudy\u003C\/a\u003E by the Georgia Institute of Technology reveals that liming, normally used to neutralize the acid in soil, can remove carbon from the atmosphere.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/reinhard-chris\u0022\u003EChris Reinhard\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor of biogeochemistry at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth \u0026amp; Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Institute of Technology, said there\u2019s been interest in the carbon cycle for a long time.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSome of our research at Georgia Tech and research as collaborators looks at the basics of how the Earth\u0027s carbon cycle works in the most general way,\u201d said Reinhard. \u201cBut in the last 10 or so years, we\u0027ve gotten really preoccupied with the impacts of human activity on the carbon cycle. And that spans a whole range of things, because we do all sorts of things to the Earth system as a species.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-09-03 17:42:49","changed_gmt":"2025-09-04 14:36:58","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Augusta Chronicle","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.augustachronicle.com\/story\/news\/environment\/2025\/08\/29\/georgia-institute-of-technology-research-looks-at-removing-carbon-dioxide-levels-from-atmoshere\/85868024007\/","dateline":{"date":"2025-08-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-08-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"192254","name":"cos-climate"},{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"175593","name":"School  of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"683598":{"#nid":"683598","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"As powerful 8.8 earthquake triggers Pacific-wide tsunami alert, Georgia scientists are tracking the seismic and tidal waves","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA powerful 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia\u2019s Kamchatka Peninsula late Monday, triggering a tsunami that surged across the Pacific Ocean. Tsunami alerts stretched from Japan to South America, including portions of coastal Alaska and the West Coast, as well as Hawaii.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis is certainly one of the biggest earthquakes we\u2019ve seen recently,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/newman-andrew\u0022\u003EAndrew Newman\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech. \u201cIt\u2019s smaller than the 2011 Japan quake, but it\u0027s almost the exact same size as the Chile earthquake in 2010. It created a lot of local damage there as well as a large tsunami.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe quake occurred along a megathrust fault, which is a type of subduction zone where one tectonic plate dives beneath another. These faults, common around the Pacific \u201cRing of Fire,\u201d are responsible for the largest earthquakes in recorded history. They\u0027re also responsible for generating tsunami waves.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022In these megathrust faults, one dives beneath another. It\u0027s actually that upper plate when it pops up,\u0022 Newnan said. \u0022It creates really large waves. That part that pops up may pop up as much as 10 to 15 or 20 feet, depending on how big the earthquake is. That\u0027s going to lift the entire water column around it...and then that wave just kind of propagates away.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA powerful 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia\u2019s Kamchatka Peninsula late Monday, triggering a tsunami that surged across the Pacific Ocean. Tsunami alerts stretched from Japan to South America, including portions of coastal Alaska and the West Coast, as well as Hawaii.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis is certainly one of the biggest earthquakes we\u2019ve seen recently,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/newman-andrew\u0022\u003EAndrew Newman\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech. \u201cIt\u2019s smaller than the 2011 Japan quake, but it\u0027s almost the exact same size as the Chile earthquake in 2010. It created a lot of local damage there as well as a large tsunami.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe quake occurred along a megathrust fault, which is a type of subduction zone where one tectonic plate dives beneath another. These faults, common around the Pacific \u201cRing of Fire,\u201d are responsible for the largest earthquakes in recorded history. They\u0027re also responsible for generating tsunami waves.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022In these megathrust faults, one dives beneath another. It\u0027s actually that upper plate when it pops up,\u0022 Newnan said. \u0022It creates really large waves. That part that pops up may pop up as much as 10 to 15 or 20 feet, depending on how big the earthquake is. That\u0027s going to lift the entire water column around it...and then that wave just kind of propagates away.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-08-06 17:25:29","changed_gmt":"2025-08-07 17:11:22","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"11Alive News","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.11alive.com\/article\/weather\/weather-impact\/science-behind-earthquakes-and-tsunamis\/85-57bbe9ec-1d97-436d-abda-ceb987be748c","dateline":{"date":"2025-07-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-07-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"175593","name":"School  of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"5770","name":"Earthquake"},{"id":"347","name":"tsunami"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"683597":{"#nid":"683597","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Georgia Power quietly dug deep holes in Georgia. Here\u2019s what they found.","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEach day, carbon dioxide emitted by Georgia Power\u2019s coal, oil and gas plants is released into the atmosphere, where it will stay for hundreds of years and heat the planet. Last year, the utility quietly took steps to explore an alternative. Contractors hired by Georgia Power drilled holes into the Earth\u2019s crust at three locations in rural Georgia, some more than a mile deep. Their goal? To see whether the formations below are suitable for \u201cgeologic carbon sequestration,\u201d a method that could permanently lock away the company\u2019s greenhouse gas emissions.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECarbon capture and storage technology has its detractors, and significant environmental and cost questions around it exist. But major scientific reports have found it may be necessary to limit global warming.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/herrmann-felix\u0022\u003EFelix Herrmann\u003C\/a\u003E, a computational seismologist and professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E and the School of Computational Science and Engineering, agrees.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s not a silver bullet,\u201d Herrmann said. \u201cBut the reason why I\u2019m an advocate for this, frankly, is I think it\u2019s a bit naive to think we can switch off of oil and gas tomorrow.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEach day, carbon dioxide emitted by Georgia Power\u2019s coal, oil and gas plants is released into the atmosphere, where it will stay for hundreds of years and heat the planet. Last year, the utility quietly took steps to explore an alternative. Contractors hired by Georgia Power drilled holes into the Earth\u2019s crust at three locations in rural Georgia, some more than a mile deep. Their goal? To see whether the formations below are suitable for \u201cgeologic carbon sequestration,\u201d a method that could permanently lock away the company\u2019s greenhouse gas emissions.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECarbon capture and storage technology has its detractors, and significant environmental and cost questions around it exist. But major scientific reports have found it may be necessary to limit global warming.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/herrmann-felix\u0022\u003EFelix Herrmann\u003C\/a\u003E, a computational seismologist and professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E and the School of Computational Science and Engineering, agrees.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s not a silver bullet,\u201d Herrmann said. \u201cBut the reason why I\u2019m an advocate for this, frankly, is I think it\u2019s a bit naive to think we can switch off of oil and gas tomorrow.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-08-06 17:22:32","changed_gmt":"2025-08-07 17:08:57","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Atlanta Journal Constitution","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/business\/2025\/07\/georgia-power-quietly-dug-deep-holes-in-rural-georgia-what-they-found\/","dateline":{"date":"2025-07-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-07-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"175593","name":"School  of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"187044","name":"carbon sequestration"},{"id":"192254","name":"cos-climate"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"683280":{"#nid":"683280","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Optimizing Diamond as a Quantum Sensor","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn an article published in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EPhysics Magazine\u003C\/em\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E Ph.D. student\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/jingcheng-zhou\u0022\u003EJingcheng Zhou\u003C\/a\u003E and Assistant Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/chunhui-du\u0022\u003EChunhui (Rita) Du\u003C\/a\u003E review efforts to optimize diamond-based quantum sensing. According to Zhou and Du, the approach used in two recent studies broadens the potential applications of nitrogen-vacancy center sensors for probing quantum phenomena, enabling measurements of nonlocal properties (such as spatial and temporal correlations) that are relevant to condensed-matter physics and materials science.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn an article published in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EPhysics Magazine\u003C\/em\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E Ph.D. student\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/jingcheng-zhou\u0022\u003EJingcheng Zhou\u003C\/a\u003E and Assistant Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/chunhui-du\u0022\u003EChunhui (Rita) Du\u003C\/a\u003E review efforts to optimize diamond-based quantum sensing. According to Zhou and Du, the approach used in two recent studies broadens the potential applications of nitrogen-vacancy center sensors for probing quantum phenomena, enabling measurements of nonlocal properties (such as spatial and temporal correlations) that are relevant to condensed-matter physics and materials science.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-07-25 14:49:39","changed_gmt":"2025-07-28 16:31:22","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Physics Magazine","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/physics.aps.org\/articles\/v18\/132","dateline":{"date":"2025-07-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-07-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"192251","name":"cos-quantum"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"683279":{"#nid":"683279","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"NASA\u2019s Life Detection Knowledge Base: A Tool for Life Detection Mission Planning","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECommunity engagement has illustrated notable educational applications of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/lifedetectionforum.com\/home\u0022\u003ELife Detection Knowledge Base\u003C\/a\u003E (LDKB). The webtool\u0027s utility as an educational resource for next generation mission planners and astrobiologists was demonstrated when Georgia Institute of Technology astrobiology course instructor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/glass-jennifer\u0022\u003EJennifer Glass\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, adopted it for a class project across several semesters from 2022 to 2023. In her graduate course, Seminal Papers in Astrobiology, Glass assigned students a biogenic or abiotic stance on a seminal astrobiology case study, such as the debate on the oldest microfossils. Students constructed and iterated arguments and evidence on their chosen topics for inclusion into multiple LDKB entries. A second example of the tool\u2019s success in education came from a collaboration with the Young Scientists Program internship through the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science. Through both efforts, students developed arguments and supporting evidence for inclusion in the LDKB, gaining useful skills in peer reviewing, scientific writing, and scientific debate.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECommunity engagement has illustrated notable educational applications of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/lifedetectionforum.com\/home\u0022\u003ELife Detection Knowledge Base\u003C\/a\u003E (LDKB). The webtool\u0027s utility as an educational resource for next generation mission planners and astrobiologists was demonstrated when Georgia Institute of Technology astrobiology course instructor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/glass-jennifer\u0022\u003EJennifer Glass\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, adopted it for a class project across several semesters from 2022 to 2023. In her graduate course, Seminal Papers in Astrobiology, Glass assigned students a biogenic or abiotic stance on a seminal astrobiology case study, such as the debate on the oldest microfossils. Students constructed and iterated arguments and evidence on their chosen topics for inclusion into multiple LDKB entries. A second example of the tool\u2019s success in education came from a collaboration with the Young Scientists Program internship through the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science. Through both efforts, students developed arguments and supporting evidence for inclusion in the LDKB, gaining useful skills in peer reviewing, scientific writing, and scientific debate.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-07-25 14:34:34","changed_gmt":"2025-07-28 16:07:22","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"NASA","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/astrobiology\/researchers\/life-detection-resources\/ldkb\/","dateline":{"date":"2025-07-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-07-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"42911","name":"Education"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"192249","name":"cos-community"},{"id":"175593","name":"School  of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"722","name":"Astrobiology"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"683056":{"#nid":"683056","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Space lovers, scientists marvel at meteor that blazed over Georgia","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThursday\u2019s meteor captivated many across the Southeast, but perhaps no one was quite as thrilled as the amateur meteorite chasers who track down bits of space rock and the astronomy researchers whose lifework is analyzing space activity.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/directory\/person\/masatoshi-toshi-hirabayashi\u0022\u003EToshi Hirabayashi\u003C\/a\u003E, a Georgia Tech associate professor who studies space operations, celestial mechanics, and planetary science, quickly began analyzing videos of the fireball Thursday \u201cjust for fun.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBased on his rough calculations, the object was moving \u201cdefinitely faster than 10 miles per second\u201d or roughly 36,000 mph, he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile it\u2019s fun to see smaller meteorites hit the Earth, it\u2019s critical to prepare for when a larger meteor comes blazing in and does real damage. In 2013, a meteor the size of a house exploded 14 miles above Russia, Hirabayashi said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are working so hard to monitor, as well as develop technologies to defend Earth,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHirabayashi was also cited in articles published by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/earth-space\/daytime-fireball-meteor-atlanta-southeast\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFoxWeather\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E \u003C\/em\u003Eand \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/news\/local\/henry-county\/meteorite-hunters-searching-fragments-henry-county\/F5ABVYVKVZDWNPYNXH22AFZPAU\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EWSB TV\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThursday\u2019s meteor captivated many across the Southeast, but perhaps no one was quite as thrilled as the amateur meteorite chasers who track down bits of space rock and the astronomy researchers whose lifework is analyzing space activity.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/directory\/person\/masatoshi-toshi-hirabayashi\u0022\u003EToshi Hirabayashi\u003C\/a\u003E, a Georgia Tech associate professor who studies space operations, celestial mechanics, and planetary science, quickly began analyzing videos of the fireball Thursday \u201cjust for fun.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBased on his rough calculations, the object was moving \u201cdefinitely faster than 10 miles per second\u201d or roughly 36,000 mph, he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile it\u2019s fun to see smaller meteorites hit the Earth, it\u2019s critical to prepare for when a larger meteor comes blazing in and does real damage. 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Not as a backup, but as a fully conscious version of yourself. Without a body, but with a mind. Sounds like science fiction? That\u2019s exactly what mind uploading to a computer is. It\u2019s an attempt to create a digital existence that can last forever.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EIn a virtual world where physics operates on different principles, a digital consciousness could eat virtual food, fly, travel to planets, or pass through walls.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ELimitations? Only those imposed by technology and the current state of knowledge. Associate Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/people\/dobromir-rahnev\u0022\u003EDobromir Rahnev\u003C\/a\u003E from the Georgia Institute of Technology\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Psychology\u003C\/a\u003E does not rule out this possibility.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cTheoretically, mind uploading is possible. However, we are currently very far from this goal,\u201d he writes in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/theconversation.com\/can-you-upload-a-human-mind-into-a-computer-a-neuroscientist-ponders-whats-possible-250764\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Conversation\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EImagine your memories, way of thinking, and who you are being saved into a computer system. 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Here is an excerpt of her response:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cA passion for weather is important [and] I would suggest really focusing on your math and science classes to prepare for the right school. When you\u0027re taking those hard math classes and you feel like you want to give up, remembering why you\u0027re passionate about this is really gonna help.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cI decided to go to Georgia Tech because it\u0027s a really good school for math and science, and I knew that that was something that I wanted to pursue.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cMy time at the Weather Channel so far has been awesome. I love teaching people about the weather, and it\u0027s been exciting the past few days with the first hurricane of the year, Hurricane Erick, just with the chaos of it all. 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When you\u0027re taking those hard math classes and you feel like you want to give up, remembering why you\u0027re passionate about this is really gonna help.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cI decided to go to Georgia Tech because it\u0027s a really good school for math and science, and I knew that that was something that I wanted to pursue.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cMy time at the Weather Channel so far has been awesome. I love teaching people about the weather, and it\u0027s been exciting the past few days with the first hurricane of the year, Hurricane Erick, just with the chaos of it all. 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The rover has been collecting samples that were intended to be returned to Earth as part of the Mars Sample Return mission in the 2030s.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ESome of the material in the samples was thought to have been volcanic, including signs of lava flows. Now,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/wray.eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJames Wray\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, professor at Georgia Tech\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, and his colleagues have found a possible source \u2013 a dormant volcano on the south-eastern rim of Jezero named Jezero Mons.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EHigh-resolution imagery from Mars orbiters have revealed fine-grained material on the mountain, consistent with ash from a volcano. The size and shape of Jezero Mons \u2013 21 kilometres wide and two kilometres tall \u2013 also matches similar volcanoes on Earth.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cAn igneous volcano interpretation seems most consistent with the observations,\u201d says Wray, one fuelled by magma from below the surface. \u201cIt\u2019s the strongest case we can make without actually walking across it.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EBy counting craters near the volcano, Wray and his team estimate that Jezero Mons may have last erupted as recently as 1 billion years ago, possibly flinging ash, lava and rocks into Jezero crater, even as far as Perseverance\u2019s landing site.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESimilar stories appeared at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.11alive.com\/video\/news\/local\/11alive-news-the-take-volcano-discovery-reshapes-mars-research-61625\/85-51369786-b3da-4cee-9c6b-a66bfb7ad1e0\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E11 Alive\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/volcano-found-hiding-in-plain-sight-right-next-to-nasa-mars-rover\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EScience Alert\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/earthsky.org\/space\/hidden-mars-volcano-jezero-mons-jezero-crater-perseverance-rover\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EEarth Sky\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.zmescience.com\/space\/astronomy-space\/astronomers-found-a-volcano-hiding-in-plain-sight-on-mars\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EZME Science\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E,\u003C\/em\u003E and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/astronomers-find-hidden-volcano-on-mars-2000614680\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EGizmodo\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EA volcano seems to have been identified near the rim of Jezero crater on Mars, which is being explored by NASA\u2019s Perseverance rover. The rover has been collecting samples that were intended to be returned to Earth as part of the Mars Sample Return mission in the 2030s.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ESome of the material in the samples was thought to have been volcanic, including signs of lava flows. Now,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/wray.eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJames Wray\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, professor at Georgia Tech\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, and his colleagues have found a possible source \u2013 a dormant volcano on the south-eastern rim of Jezero named Jezero Mons.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EHigh-resolution imagery from Mars orbiters have revealed fine-grained material on the mountain, consistent with ash from a volcano. The size and shape of Jezero Mons \u2013 21 kilometres wide and two kilometres tall \u2013 also matches similar volcanoes on Earth.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cAn igneous volcano interpretation seems most consistent with the observations,\u201d says Wray, one fuelled by magma from below the surface. \u201cIt\u2019s the strongest case we can make without actually walking across it.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EBy counting craters near the volcano, Wray and his team estimate that Jezero Mons may have last erupted as recently as 1 billion years ago, possibly flinging ash, lava and rocks into Jezero crater, even as far as Perseverance\u2019s landing site.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESimilar stories appeared at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.11alive.com\/video\/news\/local\/11alive-news-the-take-volcano-discovery-reshapes-mars-research-61625\/85-51369786-b3da-4cee-9c6b-a66bfb7ad1e0\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E11 Alive\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/volcano-found-hiding-in-plain-sight-right-next-to-nasa-mars-rover\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EScience Alert\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/earthsky.org\/space\/hidden-mars-volcano-jezero-mons-jezero-crater-perseverance-rover\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EEarth Sky\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.zmescience.com\/space\/astronomy-space\/astronomers-found-a-volcano-hiding-in-plain-sight-on-mars\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EZME Science\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E,\u003C\/em\u003E and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/astronomers-find-hidden-volcano-on-mars-2000614680\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EGizmodo\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-06-27 15:01:27","changed_gmt":"2025-06-30 17:44:03","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"New Scientist ","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2484193-perseverance-rover-may-hold-secrets-to-newly-discovered-mars-volcano\/","dateline":{"date":"2025-06-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-06-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"192252","name":"cos-planetary"},{"id":"175593","name":"School  of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"682922":{"#nid":"682922","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Large yeast clusters generate natural circulatory flows through metabolic activity to bypass diffusion limits","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EResearchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and India\u0027s National Center for Biological Sciences have found that yeast clusters, when grown beyond a certain size, spontaneously generate fluid flows powerful enough to ferry nutrients deep into their interior.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EIn the study, \u0022Metabolically driven flows enable exponential growth in macroscopic multicellular yeast,\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adr6399\u0022\u003Epublished\u003C\/a\u003E in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EScience Advances\u003C\/em\u003E, the research team\u0026nbsp;\u2014 which included Georgia Tech Ph.D. scholar\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EEmma Bingham\u003C\/strong\u003E, Research Scientist\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/gonensin-bozdag\u0022\u003EG. Ozan Bozdag\u003C\/a\u003E, Associate Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/will-ratcliff\u0022\u003EWilliam C. Ratcliff\u003C\/a\u003E, and Associate Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/peter-yunker\u0022\u003EPeter Yunker\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u2014 used experimental evolution to determine whether non-genetic physical processes can enable nutrient transport in multicellular yeast lacking evolved transport adaptations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA similar story also appeared at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/yeast-shows-physics-can-give-rise-to-multicellular-life-sans-mutations\/article69720372.ece\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Hindu\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EResearchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and India\u0027s National Center for Biological Sciences have found that yeast clusters, when grown beyond a certain size, spontaneously generate fluid flows powerful enough to ferry nutrients deep into their interior.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EIn the study, \u0022Metabolically driven flows enable exponential growth in macroscopic multicellular yeast,\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adr6399\u0022\u003Epublished\u003C\/a\u003E in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EScience Advances\u003C\/em\u003E, the research team\u0026nbsp;\u2014 which included Georgia Tech Ph.D. scholar\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EEmma Bingham\u003C\/strong\u003E, Research Scientist\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/gonensin-bozdag\u0022\u003EG. Ozan Bozdag\u003C\/a\u003E, Associate Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/will-ratcliff\u0022\u003EWilliam C. 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Here\u0027s what it means.","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWarming waters are causing the colors of the ocean to change \u2014 a trend that could impact humans if it were to continue, according to new research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESatellite data shows that ocean waters are getting greener at the poles and bluer toward the equator, according to a paper published Thursday in the journal \u003Cem\u003EScience\u003C\/em\u003E by a research team that included \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/zhao-haipeng-0\u0022\u003EHaipeng Zhao\u003C\/a\u003E, postdoctoral fellow in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E (EAS), and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/lozier.eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESusan Lozier\u003C\/a\u003E, College of Sciences Dean, Betsy Middleton and John Clark Sutherland Chair, and EAS professor.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe change in hue is being caused by shifting concentrations of a green pigment called chlorophyll, which is produced by phytoplankton\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe presence of chlorophyll in open ocean is a proxy for concentrations of phytoplankton biomass. The colors indicate how chlorophyll concentration is changing at specific latitudes, in which the subtropics are generally losing chlorophyll, and the polar regions \u2014 the high-latitude regions \u2014 are greening, the researchers said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESimilar stories appeared at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/science\/article\/ocean-green-phytoplankton-california-color-change-20382197.php\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESan Francisco Chronicle\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/local\/environment\/article308985125.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMiami Herald\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E,\u003Cem\u003E \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/oceanographicmagazine.com\/news\/ocean-greening-at-its-poles-means-changes-afoot-for-fisheries\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EOceanographic Magazine\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/Earth.com\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EEarth.com\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.goodmorningamerica.com\/news\/story\/ocean-changing-colors-researchers-means-122927595\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EGood Morning America\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWarming waters are causing the colors of the ocean to change \u2014 a trend that could impact humans if it were to continue, according to new research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESatellite data shows that ocean waters are getting greener at the poles and bluer toward the equator, according to a paper published Thursday in the journal \u003Cem\u003EScience\u003C\/em\u003E by a research team that included \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/zhao-haipeng-0\u0022\u003EHaipeng Zhao\u003C\/a\u003E, postdoctoral fellow in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E (EAS), and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/lozier.eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESusan Lozier\u003C\/a\u003E, College of Sciences Dean, Betsy Middleton and John Clark Sutherland Chair, and EAS professor.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe change in hue is being caused by shifting concentrations of a green pigment called chlorophyll, which is produced by phytoplankton\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe presence of chlorophyll in open ocean is a proxy for concentrations of phytoplankton biomass. The colors indicate how chlorophyll concentration is changing at specific latitudes, in which the subtropics are generally losing chlorophyll, and the polar regions \u2014 the high-latitude regions \u2014 are greening, the researchers said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESimilar stories appeared at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/science\/article\/ocean-green-phytoplankton-california-color-change-20382197.php\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESan Francisco Chronicle\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/local\/environment\/article308985125.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMiami Herald\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E,\u003Cem\u003E \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/oceanographicmagazine.com\/news\/ocean-greening-at-its-poles-means-changes-afoot-for-fisheries\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EOceanographic Magazine\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/Earth.com\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EEarth.com\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.goodmorningamerica.com\/news\/story\/ocean-changing-colors-researchers-means-122927595\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EGood Morning America\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-06-27 14:44:29","changed_gmt":"2025-06-30 17:42:24","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"ABC News","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/ocean-changing-colors-researchers-means\/story?id=122927595","dateline":{"date":"2025-06-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-06-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"175593","name":"School  of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"181370","name":"oceanography"},{"id":"192254","name":"cos-climate"},{"id":"7561","name":"phytoplankton"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"682780":{"#nid":"682780","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Hold the syrup: Weirdly perfect \u0027pancakes\u0027 on Venus may prove the planet is buckling","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EVenus is famous for its \u0022pancake domes\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u2014 steep-sided volcanoes that rise from the planet\u0027s surface like circular welts. In a paper published in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1029\/2024JE008571\u0022\u003EJournal of Geophysical Research: Planets\u003C\/a\u003E, a research team that included\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E postdoctoral fellow\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=CGsceXYAAAAJ\u0026amp;hl=en\u0022\u003EMadison Borrelli\u003C\/a\u003E suggested that these unusual dome-shaped structures are at least partly sculpted by the planet\u0027s upper crust, which seems more flexible in certain regions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ETo determine how a bendy crust could affect the formation of a pancake dome, Borrelli and her colleagues at universities in France and the U.S. focused on the only dome for which they had high resolution data: the Narina Tholus, an 88.5-mile-wide (55 kilometers) dome located on the circumference of the Aramaiti Corona, one of the many giant oval structures that pockmark Venus\u0027 surface.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EBorrelli hopes that upcoming missions to Venus\u0026nbsp;\u2014 like NASA\u0027s VERITAS program\u0026nbsp;\u2014 will provide higher resolution topography of the planet\u0027s surface, allowing the researchers to test their model with more data.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESimilar stories appeared at\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/dailygalaxy.com\/2025\/05\/scientists-stunned-venus-pancake-volcanoes\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDaily Galaxy\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/science\/scientists-figure-out-why-venus-is-covered-with-pancakes\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EExtreme Tech\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E, and\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.newsbytesapp.com\/news\/science\/how-pancake-volcanoes-formed-on-venus-s-surface-here-s-the-answer\/story\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ENewsbytes\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EVenus is famous for its \u0022pancake domes\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u2014 steep-sided volcanoes that rise from the planet\u0027s surface like circular welts. 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A neuroscientist ponders what\u2019s\u00a0possible","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs part of\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThe Conversation\u003C\/em\u003E\u2019s Curious Kids series,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/people\/dobromir-rahnev\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDobromir Rahnev\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Psychology\u003C\/a\u003E, answered a question regarding the the possibility of uploading the consciousness of the mind into a computer: \u0022As a brain scientist who studies perception, I fully expect mind uploading to one day be a reality. But as of today, we\u2019re nowhere close\u0022. 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One day later, these memories exhibited a stronger emotional tone than the original recollections. The study was published in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.3758\/s13415-024-01200-0\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ECognitive, Affective, \u0026amp; Behavioral Neuroscience\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eby a research team that included Ph.D. student\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/people\/yiren-ren\u0022\u003EYiren Ren\u003C\/a\u003E and Associate Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/people\/thackery-i-brown\u0022\u003EThackery Brown\u003C\/a\u003E of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Psychology\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EA neuroimaging study examining episodic memory found that individuals exposed to music during memory recollection were more likely to incorporate emotions associated with the music into their memories. One day later, these memories exhibited a stronger emotional tone than the original recollections. The study was published in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.3758\/s13415-024-01200-0\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ECognitive, Affective, \u0026amp; Behavioral Neuroscience\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eby a research team that included Ph.D. student\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/people\/yiren-ren\u0022\u003EYiren Ren\u003C\/a\u003E and Associate Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/people\/thackery-i-brown\u0022\u003EThackery Brown\u003C\/a\u003E of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Psychology\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-05-27 17:14:09","changed_gmt":"2025-05-28 15:12:37","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Psy Post","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.psypost.org\/neuroscientists-discover-musics-hidden-power-to-reshape-memory","dateline":{"date":"2025-05-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-05-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"443951","name":"School of Psychology"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"193935","name":"music and memory"},{"id":"167710","name":"School of Psychology"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"682541":{"#nid":"682541","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"New Microbe Discovered Aboard Space Station","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/people\/christopher-e-carr\u0022\u003EChristopher E. 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Even though this microbe is not likely to be a threat, we should continue studying microbes in space to ensure we understand and address any risks, because when we are far from home, our options will be much more limited. This will help us be successful in exploring the Moon and Mars.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/people\/christopher-e-carr\u0022\u003EChristopher E. Carr\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E and the School of Aerospace Engineering, reacted to the identification of\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Eniallia tiangongensis\u003C\/em\u003E, a new variant of a terrestrial bacteria that was discovered in the Tiangong space station.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u0022This finding shows that there is a lot of microbial diversity yet to be discovered, and that space stations are excellent laboratories for studying how our human-built environments select for survival or persistence of different organisms. If we understand that better, we can reduce the risks on Earth in the built environment, such as reducing infections acquired in hospitals, schools or nursing homes. Even though this microbe is not likely to be a threat, we should continue studying microbes in space to ensure we understand and address any risks, because when we are far from home, our options will be much more limited. This will help us be successful in exploring the Moon and Mars.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-05-27 17:09:14","changed_gmt":"2025-05-28 15:10:38","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Newsweek","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/new-microbe-chinese-space-station-2074452","dateline":{"date":"2025-05-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-05-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"192250","name":"cos-microbial"},{"id":"169423","name":"space station"},{"id":"7077","name":"bacteria"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"682337":{"#nid":"682337","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"New Research Challenges 160-Year-Old Long-Standing Origin of Life Theory","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn a study published in \u003Cem\u003EChem\u003C\/em\u003E, scientists from Scripps Research and the Georgia Institute of Technology question the validity of the \u201cformose reaction\u201d hypothesis. This hypothesis proposes that simple formaldehyde molecules reacted under early Earth conditions to form ribose. But the new findings reveal a key limitation: under controlled experimental conditions, the formose reaction does not yield linear sugars like ribose. Instead, it predominantly produces branched sugar structures, which are incompatible with the formation of RNA.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur results cast doubt on the formose reaction as the basis for the formation of linear sugars,\u201d says co-senior author \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/charles-liotta\u0022\u003ECharles Liotta\u003C\/a\u003E, Regents\u2019 Professor Emeritus in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn a study published in \u003Cem\u003EChem\u003C\/em\u003E, scientists from Scripps Research and the Georgia Institute of Technology question the validity of the \u201cformose reaction\u201d hypothesis. This hypothesis proposes that simple formaldehyde molecules reacted under early Earth conditions to form ribose. But the new findings reveal a key limitation: under controlled experimental conditions, the formose reaction does not yield linear sugars like ribose. Instead, it predominantly produces branched sugar structures, which are incompatible with the formation of RNA.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur results cast doubt on the formose reaction as the basis for the formation of linear sugars,\u201d says co-senior author \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/charles-liotta\u0022\u003ECharles Liotta\u003C\/a\u003E, Regents\u2019 Professor Emeritus in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-05-12 20:42:44","changed_gmt":"2025-05-16 16:23:44","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"SciTechDaily","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/new-research-challenges-160-year-old-long-standing-origin-of-life-theory\/","dateline":{"date":"2025-05-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-05-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"85951","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"}],"categories":[{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166928","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"},{"id":"9854","name":"Origin Of Life"},{"id":"192250","name":"cos-microbial"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"682338":{"#nid":"682338","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Do other planets have seasons?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EOther planets, dwarf planets and moons in our solar system have seasonal cycles \u2014 and they can look wildly different from the ones we experience on Earth, experts told Live Science.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ETo understand how other planets have seasons, we can look at what drives seasonal changes on our planet. \u0022The Earth has its four seasons because of the spin axis tilt,\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/gongjie-li\u0022\u003EGongjie Li\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E, told Live Science. This means that our planet rotates at a slight angle of around 23.5 degrees.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u0022On Earth, we\u0027re very lucky, this spin axis is quite stable,\u0022 Li said. Due to this, we\u0027ve had relatively stable seasonal cycles that have persisted for millennia, although the broader climate sometimes shifts as the entire orbit of Earth drifts further or closer from the sun.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ESuch stability has likely helped life as we know it develop here, Li said. Scientists like her are now studying planetary conditions and seasonal changes on exoplanets to see whether life could exist in faroff worlds. For now, it seems as though the mild seasonal changes and stable spin tilts on Earth are unique.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EOther planets, dwarf planets and moons in our solar system have seasonal cycles \u2014 and they can look wildly different from the ones we experience on Earth, experts told Live Science.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ETo understand how other planets have seasons, we can look at what drives seasonal changes on our planet. \u0022The Earth has its four seasons because of the spin axis tilt,\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/gongjie-li\u0022\u003EGongjie Li\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E, told Live Science. This means that our planet rotates at a slight angle of around 23.5 degrees.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u0022On Earth, we\u0027re very lucky, this spin axis is quite stable,\u0022 Li said. Due to this, we\u0027ve had relatively stable seasonal cycles that have persisted for millennia, although the broader climate sometimes shifts as the entire orbit of Earth drifts further or closer from the sun.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ESuch stability has likely helped life as we know it develop here, Li said. Scientists like her are now studying planetary conditions and seasonal changes on exoplanets to see whether life could exist in faroff worlds. For now, it seems as though the mild seasonal changes and stable spin tilts on Earth are unique.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-05-12 20:44:56","changed_gmt":"2025-05-13 14:30:57","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Live Science","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/space\/do-other-planets-have-seasons","dateline":{"date":"2025-05-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-05-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"192252","name":"cos-planetary"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"682339":{"#nid":"682339","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Seismologist explains science behind Tennessee earthquake","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETens of thousands of people in the Southeast were jolted by a magnitude 4.1 earthquake on Saturday, May 10. Seismologist and professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/peng-dr-zhigang\u0022\u003EZhigang Peng\u003C\/a\u003E joined \u003Cem\u003EFOX Weather\u003C\/em\u003E to talk about why so many people in the East reported feeling the earthquake and just how common they are in the region.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA similar story also appeared at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.11alive.com\/article\/weather\/earthquake-metro-atlanta-tennessee-4-1\/85-66535226-f865-42d2-8fae-e9686b8075ee\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E11 Alive News\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETens of thousands of people in the Southeast were jolted by a magnitude 4.1 earthquake on Saturday, May 10. Seismologist and professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/peng-dr-zhigang\u0022\u003EZhigang Peng\u003C\/a\u003E joined \u003Cem\u003EFOX Weather\u003C\/em\u003E to talk about why so many people in the East reported feeling the earthquake and just how common they are in the region.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA similar story also appeared at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.11alive.com\/article\/weather\/earthquake-metro-atlanta-tennessee-4-1\/85-66535226-f865-42d2-8fae-e9686b8075ee\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E11 Alive News\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-05-12 20:48:05","changed_gmt":"2025-05-13 14:27:22","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Fox Weather ","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/watch\/fmc-gu30dmfob6wibjpr","dateline":{"date":"2025-05-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-05-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"192252","name":"cos-planetary"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"682340":{"#nid":"682340","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Perseverance Happened to Land Right Beside a Composite Volcano","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EAccording to\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s43247-025-02329-7\u0022\u003Enew research\u003C\/a\u003E published in the journal\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ENature\u003C\/em\u003E, lava flows possibly originating from the Jezero Mons on Mars could have shaped the geology of the Jezero crater\u2019s floor. According to the findings, the analysis of NASA\u0027s\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EPerseverance\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Erover\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Esamples could also reveal clues about ancient Mars when it was still geologically active.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe study was led by\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sara-cuevas-qui%C3%B1ones-76875b202\/\u0022\u003ESara C. Cuevas-Qui\u00f1ones\u003C\/a\u003E, a Ph.D. Planetary Science student from Georgia Tech\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E (EAS) and Brown University. The research team also included EAS Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/wray-dr-james\u0022\u003EJames Wray\u003C\/a\u003E and EAS Assistant Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/rivera-hernandez-dr-frances\u0022\u003EFrances Rivera-Hern\u00e1ndez\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EAs Cuevas-Qui\u00f1ones and her colleagues note in their paper, the detection of clay and carbonate minerals on Jezero crater\u0027s floor supports the conclusion that the sedimentary deposits on the crater\u0027s western edge are the result of aqueous activity that took place roughly 3.8 to 3.5 billion years ago. In addition, satellite observations have revealed a set of non-sedimentary geologic materials that cover most of the Jezero crater\u0027s floor.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EAccording to\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s43247-025-02329-7\u0022\u003Enew research\u003C\/a\u003E published in the journal\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ENature\u003C\/em\u003E, lava flows possibly originating from the Jezero Mons on Mars could have shaped the geology of the Jezero crater\u2019s floor. According to the findings, the analysis of NASA\u0027s\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EPerseverance\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Erover\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Esamples could also reveal clues about ancient Mars when it was still geologically active.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe study was led by\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sara-cuevas-qui%C3%B1ones-76875b202\/\u0022\u003ESara C. Cuevas-Qui\u00f1ones\u003C\/a\u003E, a Ph.D. Planetary Science student from Georgia Tech\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E (EAS) and Brown University. The research team also included EAS Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/wray-dr-james\u0022\u003EJames Wray\u003C\/a\u003E and EAS Assistant Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/rivera-hernandez-dr-frances\u0022\u003EFrances Rivera-Hern\u00e1ndez\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EAs Cuevas-Qui\u00f1ones and her colleagues note in their paper, the detection of clay and carbonate minerals on Jezero crater\u0027s floor supports the conclusion that the sedimentary deposits on the crater\u0027s western edge are the result of aqueous activity that took place roughly 3.8 to 3.5 billion years ago. In addition, satellite observations have revealed a set of non-sedimentary geologic materials that cover most of the Jezero crater\u0027s floor.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-05-12 20:53:05","changed_gmt":"2025-05-13 14:26:16","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Universe Today","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/articles\/perseverance-happened-to-land-right-beside-a-composite-volcano","dateline":{"date":"2025-05-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-05-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"192250","name":"cos-microbial"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"682162":{"#nid":"682162","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"A \u0027river\u0027 of 10 million birds fly over Georgia skies nightly this week, migrating north","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThis week could be a jackpot for birders in Georgia, as an estimated 10 million will fly every night over the state. When they aren\u0027t flying, they\u0027ll be on the ground feasting. In an 11Alive interview,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/benjamin%20freeman\u0022\u003EBenjamin Freeman\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, discusses the \u201criver of migrating birds\u201d over Georgia skies:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u0022So most of these small birds, they\u0027re actually... flying at night. So when they\u0027re flying, they\u0027re spending so much energy they\u0027re heating up, so they like to fly when it\u0027s cool at night. And they\u0027re flying a couple thousand feet up. They\u0027re flying all night and then sometime in the morning they\u0027ll land and they\u0027ll spend the day looking for food. And then the next night, they\u0027ll often rise up again and keep flying north, so they\u0027re flying a couple 100 miles a night.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EDiscover the full interview \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.11alive.com\/article\/tech\/science\/climate-science\/10-million-birds-fly-over-georgia-migration\/85-89f97e9d-5e78-46f0-8d56-6d476da9c217\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA similar story also appeared at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/10-million-birds-soar-across-georgia-nightly-heres-why\/BQPCTOS3RNF45AAGCELAK5GZSM\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Atlanta Journal Constitution\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThis week could be a jackpot for birders in Georgia, as an estimated 10 million will fly every night over the state. When they aren\u0027t flying, they\u0027ll be on the ground feasting. In an 11Alive interview,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/benjamin%20freeman\u0022\u003EBenjamin Freeman\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, discusses the \u201criver of migrating birds\u201d over Georgia skies:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u0022So most of these small birds, they\u0027re actually... flying at night. So when they\u0027re flying, they\u0027re spending so much energy they\u0027re heating up, so they like to fly when it\u0027s cool at night. And they\u0027re flying a couple thousand feet up. They\u0027re flying all night and then sometime in the morning they\u0027ll land and they\u0027ll spend the day looking for food. And then the next night, they\u0027ll often rise up again and keep flying north, so they\u0027re flying a couple 100 miles a night.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EDiscover the full interview \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.11alive.com\/article\/tech\/science\/climate-science\/10-million-birds-fly-over-georgia-migration\/85-89f97e9d-5e78-46f0-8d56-6d476da9c217\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA similar story also appeared at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/10-million-birds-soar-across-georgia-nightly-heres-why\/BQPCTOS3RNF45AAGCELAK5GZSM\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Atlanta Journal Constitution\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-05-01 16:01:58","changed_gmt":"2025-05-12 20:54:18","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"11 Alive","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.11alive.com\/article\/tech\/science\/climate-science\/10-million-birds-fly-over-georgia-migration\/85-89f97e9d-5e78-46f0-8d56-6d476da9c217","dateline":{"date":"2025-04-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-04-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"4620","name":"bird"},{"id":"64251","name":"migration"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"682161":{"#nid":"682161","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Autism diagnoses are on the rise. The question is why.","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA new study from the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control is showing a rise in the number of U.S. kids being diagnosed with autism. The logic behind the rise in diagnoses of autism, the cause of which still mystifies researchers, has been polarizing.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProfessor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/mg-finn\u0022\u003EM.G. Finn\u003C\/a\u003E, a biochemist and researcher in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E, said countless studies have ruled out a connection between vaccinations and autism.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cVaccines engage the immune system, and autism is not a disease of the immune system,\u201d said Finn. \u201cThat has absolutely nothing to do, proven by study after study, with vaccines and immunizations. The fact that autism diagnosis may be increasing as a percent of the population is probably because there are numerous new and better ways to detect autism.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA new study from the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control is showing a rise in the number of U.S. kids being diagnosed with autism. The logic behind the rise in diagnoses of autism, the cause of which still mystifies researchers, has been polarizing.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProfessor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/mg-finn\u0022\u003EM.G. 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The fact that autism diagnosis may be increasing as a percent of the population is probably because there are numerous new and better ways to detect autism.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-05-01 15:58:49","changed_gmt":"2025-05-02 16:55:47","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Atlanta News First","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.atlantanewsfirst.com\/2025\/04\/16\/autism-diagnoses-are-rise-question-is-why\/","dateline":{"date":"2025-04-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-04-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"85951","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"}],"categories":[{"id":"138","name":"Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics"},{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166928","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"},{"id":"42581","name":"vaccinations"},{"id":"6053","name":"Autism"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"682165":{"#nid":"682165","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"During decision-making, brain shows multiple distinct subtypes of activity","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EBrain imaging research may be grappling with a fresh challenge. Scanning the brain of a single person can reveal the areas they use to complete a task, although the exact pattern differs from person to person. But averaging the results across many people\u2014as scientists often do\u2014fails to capture some important nuances, a new functional MRI (fMRI)\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-025-57115-y\u0022\u003Estudy\u003C\/a\u003E suggests.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe brain tackles decision-making tasks in particular through several different categories of brain activity, rather than a single one, according to the study, published in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ENature Communications\u003C\/em\u003E in February by a team that includes\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Psychology\u003C\/a\u003E researchers. Across three decision-making tasks, participants\u2019 brains differentially activated and suppressed various regions and networks in ways that could be grouped into distinct categories, or subtypes, highlighting the variability of neural signatures during behavior.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EBrain imaging research may be grappling with a fresh challenge. Scanning the brain of a single person can reveal the areas they use to complete a task, although the exact pattern differs from person to person. But averaging the results across many people\u2014as scientists often do\u2014fails to capture some important nuances, a new functional MRI (fMRI)\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-025-57115-y\u0022\u003Estudy\u003C\/a\u003E suggests.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe brain tackles decision-making tasks in particular through several different categories of brain activity, rather than a single one, according to the study, published in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ENature Communications\u003C\/em\u003E in February by a team that includes\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Psychology\u003C\/a\u003E researchers. Across three decision-making tasks, participants\u2019 brains differentially activated and suppressed various regions and networks in ways that could be grouped into distinct categories, or subtypes, highlighting the variability of neural signatures during behavior.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-05-01 17:10:56","changed_gmt":"2025-05-02 14:44:56","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"The Transmitter","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.thetransmitter.org\/behavior\/during-decision-making-brain-shows-multiple-distinct-subtypes-of-activity\/","dateline":{"date":"2025-04-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-04-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"443951","name":"School of Psychology"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"167710","name":"School of Psychology"},{"id":"192253","name":"cos-neuro"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"682164":{"#nid":"682164","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"How a Biofilm\u2019s Strange Shape Emerges From Cellular Geometry","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBiofilms have emergent properties: traits that appear only when a system of individual items interacts. It was this emergence that attracted \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/people\/peter-yunker\u0022\u003EPeter Yunker\u003C\/a\u003E to the microbial structures. Trained in soft matter physics \u2014 the study of materials that can be structurally altered \u2014 he is interested in understanding how the interactions between individual bacteria result in the higher-order structure of a biofilm\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERecently, in his lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Yunker and his team created detailed topographical maps of the three-dimensional surface of a growing biofilm. These measurements allowed them to study how a biofilm\u2019s shape emerges from millions of infinitesimal interactions among component bacteria and their environment. In 2024 in \u003Cem\u003ENature Physics\u003C\/em\u003E, they described \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41567-024-02572-3\u0022\u003Ethe biophysical laws\u003C\/a\u003E that control the complex aggregation of bacterial cells.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe work is important, Yunker said, not only because it can help explain the staggering diversity of one of the planet\u2019s most common life forms, but also because it may evoke life\u2019s first, hesitant steps toward multicellularity.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBiofilms have emergent properties: traits that appear only when a system of individual items interacts. It was this emergence that attracted \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/people\/peter-yunker\u0022\u003EPeter Yunker\u003C\/a\u003E to the microbial structures. Trained in soft matter physics \u2014 the study of materials that can be structurally altered \u2014 he is interested in understanding how the interactions between individual bacteria result in the higher-order structure of a biofilm\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERecently, in his lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Yunker and his team created detailed topographical maps of the three-dimensional surface of a growing biofilm. These measurements allowed them to study how a biofilm\u2019s shape emerges from millions of infinitesimal interactions among component bacteria and their environment. In 2024 in \u003Cem\u003ENature Physics\u003C\/em\u003E, they described \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41567-024-02572-3\u0022\u003Ethe biophysical laws\u003C\/a\u003E that control the complex aggregation of bacterial cells.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe work is important, Yunker said, not only because it can help explain the staggering diversity of one of the planet\u2019s most common life forms, but also because it may evoke life\u2019s first, hesitant steps toward multicellularity.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-05-01 17:04:55","changed_gmt":"2025-05-02 14:41:46","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Quanta Magazine ","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/how-a-biofilms-strange-shape-emerges-from-cellular-geometry-20250421\/","dateline":{"date":"2025-04-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-04-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"170023","name":"biofilm"},{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"681871":{"#nid":"681871","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"How I finally found my confidence as a scientist","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EIn an article published in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EScience\u003C\/em\u003E,\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/maria-martignoni%20mseya\u0022\u003EMaria Martignoni\u003C\/a\u003E, a postdoctoral fellow at Georgia Tech\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/cmdi\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Microbial Dynamics and Infection\u003C\/a\u003E, reflects on her path as a scientist and shares advice to students:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u0022One does not need to have a clear life plan to belong in science. Many scientists know from the start that they want to be academic researchers. But for others the path unfolds gradually, with spurts of doubt and uncertainty along the way. In a way, that\u2019s fitting. As researchers we are explorers, and part of our mission involves finding our way without always knowing where we are going.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EIn an article published in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EScience\u003C\/em\u003E,\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/maria-martignoni%20mseya\u0022\u003EMaria Martignoni\u003C\/a\u003E, a postdoctoral fellow at Georgia Tech\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/cmdi\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Microbial Dynamics and Infection\u003C\/a\u003E, reflects on her path as a scientist and shares advice to students:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u0022One does not need to have a clear life plan to belong in science. Many scientists know from the start that they want to be academic researchers. But for others the path unfolds gradually, with spurts of doubt and uncertainty along the way. In a way, that\u2019s fitting. As researchers we are explorers, and part of our mission involves finding our way without always knowing where we are going.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-04-17 15:00:39","changed_gmt":"2025-04-17 16:25:58","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Science Magazine","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/how-i-finally-found-my-confidence-scientist","dateline":{"date":"2025-04-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-04-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"192249","name":"cos-community"},{"id":"172026","name":"postdoctoral fellow"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"681869":{"#nid":"681869","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"New entanglement approach could boost photonic quantum computing","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPostdoctoral researcher Aniruddha Bhattacharya and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/chandra-raman\u0022\u003EChandra Raman\u003C\/a\u003E have introduced a novel way to generate entanglement between photons \u2013 an essential step in building scalable quantum computers that use photons as quantum bits (qubits). Their research, published in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.134.080201\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EPhysical Review Letters\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, leverages a mathematical concept called non-Abelian quantum holonomy to entangle photons in a deterministic way without relying on strong nonlinear interactions or irrevocably probabilistic quantum measurements.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPostdoctoral researcher Aniruddha Bhattacharya and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/chandra-raman\u0022\u003EChandra Raman\u003C\/a\u003E have introduced a novel way to generate entanglement between photons \u2013 an essential step in building scalable quantum computers that use photons as quantum bits (qubits). Their research, published in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.134.080201\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EPhysical Review Letters\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, leverages a mathematical concept called non-Abelian quantum holonomy to entangle photons in a deterministic way without relying on strong nonlinear interactions or irrevocably probabilistic quantum measurements.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-04-17 14:49:10","changed_gmt":"2025-04-17 16:23:54","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Physics World ","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/physicsworld.com\/a\/new-entanglement-approach-could-boost-photonic-quantum-computing\/","dateline":{"date":"2025-04-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-04-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"4359","name":"quantum computing"},{"id":"3135","name":"entanglement"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"681702":{"#nid":"681702","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Manufacturing Danger: The BioLab Story","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EWhen a chemical fire broke out at the BioLab facility in Conyers, Georgia in 2024, a plume of smoke blanketed the area, triggering evacuations and urgent warnings to stay indoors. But for many residents, this wasn\u2019t just an isolated emergency\u2014it was part of a larger pattern of industrial incidents at the plant that raised serious concerns about safety and oversight.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe series \u201cManufacturing Danger: The BioLab Story\u201d uncovers what led to the fire, how officials and the company responded, and the lingering questions about its impact on the community. The series includes expert analyses from\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/huey-dr-greg\u0022\u003EGreg Huey\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/pamela-pollet\u0022\u003EPamela Pollet\u003C\/a\u003E, principal academic professional in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis story also appeared at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.npr.org\/podcasts\/1268527048\/manufacturing-danger-the-bio-lab-story\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ENPR\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EWhen a chemical fire broke out at the BioLab facility in Conyers, Georgia in 2024, a plume of smoke blanketed the area, triggering evacuations and urgent warnings to stay indoors. But for many residents, this wasn\u2019t just an isolated emergency\u2014it was part of a larger pattern of industrial incidents at the plant that raised serious concerns about safety and oversight.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe series \u201cManufacturing Danger: The BioLab Story\u201d uncovers what led to the fire, how officials and the company responded, and the lingering questions about its impact on the community. The series includes expert analyses from\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/huey-dr-greg\u0022\u003EGreg Huey\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/pamela-pollet\u0022\u003EPamela Pollet\u003C\/a\u003E, principal academic professional in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis story also appeared at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.npr.org\/podcasts\/1268527048\/manufacturing-danger-the-bio-lab-story\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ENPR\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-04-09 19:25:22","changed_gmt":"2025-04-10 20:49:15","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Georgia Public Broadcasting","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.gpb.org\/radio\/program\/manufacturing-danger-the-biolab-story","dateline":{"date":"2025-03-31T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-03-31T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"85951","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"42901","name":"Community"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"193982","name":"BioLab"},{"id":"104451","name":"air pollution"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"681701":{"#nid":"681701","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Myanmar just had \u2018the big one.\u2019 It should be a wake-up call for California.","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EAs the effects of the earthquake in Myanmar continue to be uncovered, scientists say the hazard of this tremor is comparable to a potential event along the San Andreas Fault in the western United States - which many say is also overdue for an earthquake.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EComputer models can simulate the extent of such a large earthquake, but researchers say Friday\u0027s catastrophe revealed new insights on what to expect. For one, the Myanmar earthquake was probably a supershear event - when shaking is stronger than expected for a particular earthquake, said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/peng-dr-zhigang\u0022\u003EZhigang Peng\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ESupershear events are rare and not fully understood. Scientists have found growing evidence that they usually occur on long, mature strike-slip faults, such as the Sagaing or San Andreas faults. But they don\u0027t know the exact conditions that may cause a rupture to trigger such extreme shaking.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EPeng said that by examining what conditions caused this in Myanmar, \u0022it informs our understanding of similar potential events, for example, on the San Andres Fault.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EAs the effects of the earthquake in Myanmar continue to be uncovered, scientists say the hazard of this tremor is comparable to a potential event along the San Andreas Fault in the western United States - which many say is also overdue for an earthquake.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EComputer models can simulate the extent of such a large earthquake, but researchers say Friday\u0027s catastrophe revealed new insights on what to expect. For one, the Myanmar earthquake was probably a supershear event - when shaking is stronger than expected for a particular earthquake, said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/peng-dr-zhigang\u0022\u003EZhigang Peng\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ESupershear events are rare and not fully understood. Scientists have found growing evidence that they usually occur on long, mature strike-slip faults, such as the Sagaing or San Andreas faults. But they don\u0027t know the exact conditions that may cause a rupture to trigger such extreme shaking.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EPeng said that by examining what conditions caused this in Myanmar, \u0022it informs our understanding of similar potential events, for example, on the San Andres Fault.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-04-09 19:15:16","changed_gmt":"2025-04-10 14:47:17","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"The Washington Post","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/2025\/04\/01\/myanmar-earthquake-san-andreas-fault-similarities\/","dateline":{"date":"2025-04-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-04-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"7115","name":"Myanmar"},{"id":"5770","name":"Earthquake"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"681703":{"#nid":"681703","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Cell Ordering May Depend on Nuclear Size","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/people\/peter-yunker\u0022\u003EPeter Yunker\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E, reflects on the results of new experiments which show that cells pack in increasingly well-ordered patterns as the relative sizes of their nuclei grow.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cThis research is a beautiful example of how the physics of packing is so important in biological systems,\u201d states Yunker. He says the researchers introduce the idea that cell packing can be controlled by the relative size of the nucleus, which \u201cis an accessible control parameter that may play important roles during development and could be used in bioengineering.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/people\/peter-yunker\u0022\u003EPeter Yunker\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E, reflects on the results of new experiments which show that cells pack in increasingly well-ordered patterns as the relative sizes of their nuclei grow.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cThis research is a beautiful example of how the physics of packing is so important in biological systems,\u201d states Yunker. He says the researchers introduce the idea that cell packing can be controlled by the relative size of the nucleus, which \u201cis an accessible control parameter that may play important roles during development and could be used in bioengineering.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-04-09 19:36:49","changed_gmt":"2025-04-10 14:38:43","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Physics Magazine","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/physics.aps.org\/articles\/v18\/65","dateline":{"date":"2025-03-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-03-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"681704":{"#nid":"681704","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"What the secret lives of lizards tell us about evolution","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EIn an article published in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThe Washington Post\u003C\/em\u003E, Assistant Professor in the School of Biological Sciences\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/james-stroud\u0022\u003EJames Stroud\u003C\/a\u003E provides an overview of his research:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EEvery morning in Miami, our fieldwork begins the same way. Fresh Cuban coffee and pastelitos \u2014 delicious Latin American pastries \u2014 fuel our team for another day of evolutionary detective work. In this case, we are tracking evolution in real time, measuring natural selection as it happens in a community of Caribbean\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Elizards\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EOur research takes place on a South Florida island roughly the size of an American football field \u2014 assuming we are successful in sidestepping the American crocodiles that bask in the surrounding lake. We call it\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ELizard\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003EIsland, and it\u0027s a special place.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ESince 2015, we have been conducting evolutionary research here on five species of remarkable\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Elizards\u003C\/em\u003E called\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Eanoles\u003C\/em\u003E. Our team is working to understand one of biology\u0027s most fundamental questions: How does natural selection drive evolution in real time?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThis also appeared in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/theconversation.com\/amid-a-tropical-paradise-known-as-lizard-island-researchers-are-cracking-open-evolutions-black-box-scientist-at-work-246474\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Conversation\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EIn an article published in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThe Washington Post\u003C\/em\u003E, Assistant Professor in the School of Biological Sciences\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/james-stroud\u0022\u003EJames Stroud\u003C\/a\u003E provides an overview of his research:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EEvery morning in Miami, our fieldwork begins the same way. Fresh Cuban coffee and pastelitos \u2014 delicious Latin American pastries \u2014 fuel our team for another day of evolutionary detective work. In this case, we are tracking evolution in real time, measuring natural selection as it happens in a community of Caribbean\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Elizards\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EOur research takes place on a South Florida island roughly the size of an American football field \u2014 assuming we are successful in sidestepping the American crocodiles that bask in the surrounding lake. We call it\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ELizard\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003EIsland, and it\u0027s a special place.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ESince 2015, we have been conducting evolutionary research here on five species of remarkable\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Elizards\u003C\/em\u003E called\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Eanoles\u003C\/em\u003E. Our team is working to understand one of biology\u0027s most fundamental questions: How does natural selection drive evolution in real time?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThis also appeared in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/theconversation.com\/amid-a-tropical-paradise-known-as-lizard-island-researchers-are-cracking-open-evolutions-black-box-scientist-at-work-246474\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Conversation\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-04-09 19:44:54","changed_gmt":"2025-04-10 14:35:29","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"The Washington Post","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/science\/2025\/03\/23\/anoles-lizard-island-evolution-traits\/","dateline":{"date":"2025-03-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-03-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"193151","name":"anoles"},{"id":"193385","name":"evolutionary ecology"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"681708":{"#nid":"681708","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"How Did Multicellular Life Evolve?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EHow life on Earth evolved from unicellular to multicellular organisms remains a mystery, though evidence indicates that this may have occurred multiple times independently. To understand what could have happened,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/people\/william-ratcliff\u0022\u003EWill Ratcliff\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, has been conducting long-term evolution experiments on yeast in which multicellularity develops and emerges spontaneously.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EIn a recent episode of \u201cThe Joy of Why\u201d podcast, Ratcliff discusses what his \u201csnowflake yeast\u201d model could reveal about the origins of multicellularity, the surprising discoveries his team has made, and how he responds to skeptics who question his approach.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EHow life on Earth evolved from unicellular to multicellular organisms remains a mystery, though evidence indicates that this may have occurred multiple times independently. To understand what could have happened,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/people\/william-ratcliff\u0022\u003EWill Ratcliff\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, has been conducting long-term evolution experiments on yeast in which multicellularity develops and emerges spontaneously.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EIn a recent episode of \u201cThe Joy of Why\u201d podcast, Ratcliff discusses what his \u201csnowflake yeast\u201d model could reveal about the origins of multicellularity, the surprising discoveries his team has made, and how he responds to skeptics who question his approach.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-04-09 20:06:18","changed_gmt":"2025-04-10 14:33:26","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Quanta Magazine ","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/how-did-multicellular-life-evolve-20250320\/","dateline":{"date":"2025-03-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-03-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"176339","name":"multicellularity"},{"id":"192250","name":"cos-microbial"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"681229":{"#nid":"681229","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Cutting-edge air quality monitoring strengthens public health nationwide","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/ng-dr-nga-lee-sally\u0022\u003ENga Lee \u0022Sally\u0022 Ng\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, leads the U.S. National Science Foundation-supported\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ascent.research.gatech.edu\/about\u0022\u003EAtmospheric Science and Chemistry mEasurement NeTwork (ASCENT)\u003C\/a\u003E, which includes 12 air quality measurement sites nationwide. Each site has state-of-the-art instruments that help us understand aerosols, or tiny particles in the atmosphere. 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Each site has state-of-the-art instruments that help us understand aerosols, or tiny particles in the atmosphere. The network is constantly analyzing the chemical constituents of aerosols with a diameter smaller than 2.5 micrometers, referred to as PM2.5, which contribute to more than 90% of the adverse health impacts associated with air pollution.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u0022We provide ASCENT data to the public in real time so that people know what\u0027s in the air we\u0027re breathing,\u0022 Ng said.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-03-19 16:58:19","changed_gmt":"2025-03-20 14:34:44","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"NSF News","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/news\/cutting-edge-air-quality-monitoring-strengthens-public","dateline":{"date":"2025-03-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-03-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School 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really into that -omics space, looking for key markers for genes \u2026 This just goes to show that sometimes it\u2019s not biological,\u201d she says. \u201cYou have to think outside the box and consider all the chemistry that can be happening, not just the enzymes.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-03-19 17:02:18","changed_gmt":"2025-03-20 14:32:30","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Chemistry World","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.chemistryworld.com\/news\/inorganic-mechanism-driving-mysterious-surge-of-powerful-greenhouse-gas\/4021149.article","dateline":{"date":"2025-03-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-03-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences 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The\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/atlantasciencefestival.org\/\u0022\u003E2025 Atlanta Science Festival\u003C\/a\u003E launched Saturday, March 8, 2025 at Georgia Tech. Dozens of exhibits were spread out all over the campus, with hands-on STEM activities, demonstrations, and information about the research currently happening on campus.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E(A similar story appeared at\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.wabe.org\/atlanta-science-festival-returns-for-12th-year\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EWABE\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E.)\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s campus was recently the site of an interactive celebration of science. The\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/atlantasciencefestival.org\/\u0022\u003E2025 Atlanta Science Festival\u003C\/a\u003E launched Saturday, March 8, 2025 at Georgia Tech. Dozens of exhibits were spread out all over the campus, with hands-on STEM activities, demonstrations, and information about the research currently happening on campus.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E(A similar story appeared at\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.wabe.org\/atlanta-science-festival-returns-for-12th-year\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EWABE\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E.)\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-03-17 20:01:41","changed_gmt":"2025-03-18 18:34:19","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Atlanta News First","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.atlantanewsfirst.com\/video\/2025\/03\/08\/atlanta-science-festival-takes-place-georgia-tech\/","dateline":{"date":"2025-03-08T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2025-03-08T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"42901","name":"Community"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"66491","name":"Atlanta Science Festival"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"681189":{"#nid":"681189","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"New Glaucoma Treatment May Save Vision","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EFour million Americans suffer from glaucoma, an incurable eye disease that slowly degrades peripheral vision and eventually leads to blindness. A new treatment could potentially stop this degradation and possibly save people\u2019s vision before it\u2019s too late.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/raquel-lieberman\u0022\u003ERaquel Lieberman\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, and her lab team have discovered two new antibodies with promise to treat glaucoma. The antibodies can break down the protein myocilin, which, when it malfunctions, can cause glaucoma.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELieberman\u2019s group recently published this research in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/pnasnexus\/pgae556\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: Nexus\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EFour million Americans suffer from glaucoma, an incurable eye disease that slowly degrades peripheral vision and eventually leads to blindness. A new treatment could potentially stop this degradation and possibly save people\u2019s vision before it\u2019s too late.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/raquel-lieberman\u0022\u003ERaquel Lieberman\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, and her lab team have discovered two new antibodies with promise to treat glaucoma. The antibodies can break down the protein myocilin, which, when it malfunctions, can cause glaucoma.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELieberman\u2019s group recently published this research in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/pnasnexus\/pgae556\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: Nexus\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-03-17 19:59:51","changed_gmt":"2025-03-18 18:31:17","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Futurity","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/glaucoma-treatment-3272142\/","dateline":{"date":"2025-03-04T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2025-03-04T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"85951","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"}],"categories":[{"id":"138","name":"Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics"},{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"17401","name":"Glaucoma"},{"id":"166928","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"681188":{"#nid":"681188","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Second shallow earthquake shakes the state, this time near middle Georgia","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EA shallow magnitude earthquake shook parts of middle Georgia earlier Tuesday evening, less than half a day after tremors were felt in northwest Georgia in Chattooga County.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E11Alive meteorologist\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EMelissa Nord\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E(EAS 2013) spoke with a Georgia Tech seismologist, who explained Northwest Georgia is the state\u0027s most active seismic region. It is located within the Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone, which experiences frequent, small earthquakes.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/peng-dr-zhigang\u0022\u003EZhigang Peng\u003C\/a\u003E, professor of geophysics in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, recently co-authored a research study on the frequency of earthquakes in this Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u0022We connected all of the data that has been recorded in that region over the past 15 years or so. And then we carefully relocated, trying to determine exactly where they\u0027re located. And after we did that, we found out that many of them occur in small kind of ligament, which is probably an indication that there are some small faults,\u0022 Peng said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EIt\u0027s possible that Tuesday\u0027s earthquake in northwest Georgia was one of those small ligaments or faults, but Dr. Peng said he\u0027d need to investigate further.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EA shallow magnitude earthquake shook parts of middle Georgia earlier Tuesday evening, less than half a day after tremors were felt in northwest Georgia in Chattooga County.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E11Alive meteorologist\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EMelissa Nord\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E(EAS 2013) spoke with a Georgia Tech seismologist, who explained Northwest Georgia is the state\u0027s most active seismic region. It is located within the Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone, which experiences frequent, small earthquakes.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/peng-dr-zhigang\u0022\u003EZhigang Peng\u003C\/a\u003E, professor of geophysics in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, recently co-authored a research study on the frequency of earthquakes in this Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u0022We connected all of the data that has been recorded in that region over the past 15 years or so. And then we carefully relocated, trying to determine exactly where they\u0027re located. And after we did that, we found out that many of them occur in small kind of ligament, which is probably an indication that there are some small faults,\u0022 Peng said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EIt\u0027s possible that Tuesday\u0027s earthquake in northwest Georgia was one of those small ligaments or faults, but Dr. Peng said he\u0027d need to investigate further.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-03-17 19:56:50","changed_gmt":"2025-03-18 18:22:49","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"11 Alive","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.11alive.com\/article\/weather\/earthquake-reported-cochran-georgia\/85-52ba7e5b-b6c4-4a75-a8a0-600f86cf678f","dateline":{"date":"2025-02-25T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2025-02-25T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"12120","name":"earthquakes"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"681187":{"#nid":"681187","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"College of Sciences Alum Robert Scott Named President of Albany State University","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia named Robert Scott president of Albany State University, effective May 1, 2025. Scott, who holds a Ph.D. in cellular and molecular biology from the Georgia Institute of Technology, will return to higher education after almost two decades working in the private sector.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia named Robert Scott president of Albany State University, effective May 1, 2025. Scott, who holds a Ph.D. in cellular and molecular biology from the Georgia Institute of Technology, will return to higher education after almost two decades working in the private sector.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-03-17 19:54:33","changed_gmt":"2025-03-18 18:20:28","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"University System of Georgia, External Affairs","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.usg.edu\/news\/release\/dr_robert_scott_named_president_of_albany_state_university","dateline":{"date":"2025-03-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-03-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"},{"id":"42901","name":"Community"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"506","name":"alumni"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"681186":{"#nid":"681186","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"National Weather Service staff cuts may put lives at risk, meteorologists say","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ENational Weather Service staff cuts may put lives at risk, meteorologists say\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe firings of hundreds of National Weather Service employees will affect local forecasters\u2019 ability to warn the public about dangerous weather, local meteorologists warn. And that could have deadly consequences when there are tornado outbreaks or an approaching hurricane, some say.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s Dean of the College of Sciences,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/dean-susan-lozier\u0022\u003ESusan Lozier\u003C\/a\u003E, says the weather forecasts aren\u2019t just useful for those planning outdoor activities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cIt goes beyond protecting people and personal property, which is great. But it just impacts so many corners of our economy,\u201d Lozier said. \u201cTransportation relies on the weather. Do we really want the safety of our skies dependent on private industry? Or our armed forces? There are just amazing stories about how accurate weather forecasting has won battles.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ENational Weather Service staff cuts may put lives at risk, meteorologists say\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe firings of hundreds of National Weather Service employees will affect local forecasters\u2019 ability to warn the public about dangerous weather, local meteorologists warn. And that could have deadly consequences when there are tornado outbreaks or an approaching hurricane, some say.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s Dean of the College of Sciences,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/dean-susan-lozier\u0022\u003ESusan Lozier\u003C\/a\u003E, says the weather forecasts aren\u2019t just useful for those planning outdoor activities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cIt goes beyond protecting people and personal property, which is great. But it just impacts so many corners of our economy,\u201d Lozier said. \u201cTransportation relies on the weather. Do we really want the safety of our skies dependent on private industry? Or our armed forces? There are just amazing stories about how accurate weather forecasting has won battles.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-03-17 19:52:14","changed_gmt":"2025-03-18 18:16:14","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"The Atlanta Journal-Constitution","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/crime\/national-weather-service-staff-cuts-may-put-lives-at-risk-meteorologists-say\/BVMCI5CGONEJ7LVO3EMFPGIYGI\/","dateline":{"date":"2025-03-01T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2025-03-01T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"42901","name":"Community"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"192249","name":"cos-community"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"680728":{"#nid":"680728","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"The American Society for Microbiology Announces New Editor in Chief","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/marvin-whiteley\u0022\u003EMarvin Whiteley\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, has been named the new editor in chief of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/journals.asm.org\/journal\/mbio\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EmBio\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, an open-access journal that explores the interconnected microbial world and publishes research in microbiology and allied fields. Whiteley\u2019s term will begin on July 1, 2025.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/marvin-whiteley\u0022\u003EMarvin Whiteley\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, has been named the new editor in chief of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/journals.asm.org\/journal\/mbio\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EmBio\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, an open-access journal that explores the interconnected microbial world and publishes research in microbiology and allied fields. Whiteley\u2019s term will begin on July 1, 2025.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-02-26 14:12:17","changed_gmt":"2025-02-27 20:42:28","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"American Society for Microbiology","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/asm.org\/Press-Releases\/2025\/February\/ASM-Announces-New-Editors-in-Chief","dateline":{"date":"2025-02-07T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2025-02-07T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"680726":{"#nid":"680726","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"An Ultrahigh Neutrino Detection Makes Waves","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/ignacio-taboada\u0022\u003EIgnacio Taboada\u003C\/a\u003E provided brief commentary on KM3NeT, a new underwater neutrino experiment that has detected what appears to be the highest-energy cosmic neutrino observed to date.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cThis is clearly an interesting event. It is also very unusual,\u201d said Taboada, spokesperson for the IceCube experiment in Antarctica. IceCube, which has a similar detector-array design as KM3NeT but is encased in ice rather than water, has detected neutrinos with energies as high as 10 PeV, but nothing in 100 PeV range. \u201cIceCube has worked for 14 years, so it\u2019s weird that we don\u2019t see the same thing,\u201d Taboada said. Taboada is not involved in the KM3Net experiment.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe KM3NeT team is aware of this weirdness. They compared the KM3-230213A event to upper limits on the neutrino flux given by IceCube and the Pierre Auger cosmic-ray experiment in Argentina. Taking those limits as given, they found that there was a 1% chance of detecting a 220-PeV neutrino during KM3NeT\u2019s preliminary (287-day) measurement campaign.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThis also appeared in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/the-most-energetic-neutrino-ever-seen-makes-a-mediterranean-splash\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EScientific American\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/a-record-breaking-ghost-particle-from-outer-space-made-a-splash-of-light-in-the-mediterranean-180986062\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESmithsonian Magazine\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/ignacio-taboada\u0022\u003EIgnacio Taboada\u003C\/a\u003E provided brief commentary on KM3NeT, a new underwater neutrino experiment that has detected what appears to be the highest-energy cosmic neutrino observed to date.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cThis is clearly an interesting event. It is also very unusual,\u201d said Taboada, spokesperson for the IceCube experiment in Antarctica. IceCube, which has a similar detector-array design as KM3NeT but is encased in ice rather than water, has detected neutrinos with energies as high as 10 PeV, but nothing in 100 PeV range. \u201cIceCube has worked for 14 years, so it\u2019s weird that we don\u2019t see the same thing,\u201d Taboada said. Taboada is not involved in the KM3Net experiment.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe KM3NeT team is aware of this weirdness. They compared the KM3-230213A event to upper limits on the neutrino flux given by IceCube and the Pierre Auger cosmic-ray experiment in Argentina. 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To enhance battlefield detection of this hazardous substance, a team of chemists, including\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/mg-finn\u0022\u003EM.G. Finn\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E and the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, will develop a streamlined method for detecting vesicants\u2014a broader class of chemical agents that includes sulfur mustard.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cWe will initially focus on model compounds that act like mustards, but that can be handled safely in the laboratory. This will allow us to test different molecular sensor designs, with Professor Jennifer\u003Cem\u003E \u003C\/em\u003EHeemstra\u0027s lab and ours working together on complementary approaches,\u201d Finn explains.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EMustard gas, or sulfur mustard, is one of the most harmful chemical warfare agents, causing severe blistering of the skin and mucous membranes upon contact. To enhance battlefield detection of this hazardous substance, a team of chemists, including\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/mg-finn\u0022\u003EM.G. Finn\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E and the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, will develop a streamlined method for detecting vesicants\u2014a broader class of chemical agents that includes sulfur mustard.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cWe will initially focus on model compounds that act like mustards, but that can be handled safely in the laboratory. This will allow us to test different molecular sensor designs, with Professor Jennifer\u003Cem\u003E \u003C\/em\u003EHeemstra\u0027s lab and ours working together on complementary approaches,\u201d Finn explains.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-02-26 14:10:38","changed_gmt":"2025-02-27 19:53:07","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"AZO Sensors","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.azosensors.com\/news.aspx?newsID=16232","dateline":{"date":"2025-02-14T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2025-02-14T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"85951","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"}],"categories":[{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166928","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"680729":{"#nid":"680729","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"NASA Investigates Spaceborne Antibiotic Resistance with ISS Experiment","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe Genomic Enumeration of Antibiotic Resistance in Space (GEARS) experiment, managed by NASA\u0027s Ames Research Center in California\u0027s Silicon Valley, is designed to analyze microbial resistance in space. As part of the study, astronauts collect samples from interior surfaces aboard the ISS to detect antibiotic-resistant bacteria, particularly\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EEnterococcus faecalis\u003C\/em\u003E, a microorganism naturally found in the human body. This initiative marks the initial phase of broader research on microbial behavior in space and its implications for medicine on Earth.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u0022\u003Cem\u003EEnterococcus\u003C\/em\u003E is an ancient organism that has coexisted with humans since our evolutionary origins,\u0022 explained\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/people\/christopher-e-carr\u0022\u003EChristopher Carr\u003C\/a\u003E, co-principal investigator of GEARS and assistant professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and the School of Aerospace Engineering. \u0022It thrives inside and outside its host, contributing to its status as the second leading cause of hospital-acquired infections. Our goal is to understand how this microbe adapts to space conditions.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EGEARS aims to refine methods for detecting and identifying resistant bacteria, expanding upon ongoing microbial monitoring efforts aboard the ISS.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe Genomic Enumeration of Antibiotic Resistance in Space (GEARS) experiment, managed by NASA\u0027s Ames Research Center in California\u0027s Silicon Valley, is designed to analyze microbial resistance in space. As part of the study, astronauts collect samples from interior surfaces aboard the ISS to detect antibiotic-resistant bacteria, particularly\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EEnterococcus faecalis\u003C\/em\u003E, a microorganism naturally found in the human body. This initiative marks the initial phase of broader research on microbial behavior in space and its implications for medicine on Earth.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u0022\u003Cem\u003EEnterococcus\u003C\/em\u003E is an ancient organism that has coexisted with humans since our evolutionary origins,\u0022 explained\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/people\/christopher-e-carr\u0022\u003EChristopher Carr\u003C\/a\u003E, co-principal investigator of GEARS and assistant professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and the School of Aerospace Engineering. \u0022It thrives inside and outside its host, contributing to its status as the second leading cause of hospital-acquired infections. Our goal is to understand how this microbe adapts to space conditions.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EGEARS aims to refine methods for detecting and identifying resistant bacteria, expanding upon ongoing microbial monitoring efforts aboard the ISS.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-02-26 14:14:39","changed_gmt":"2025-02-27 19:50:03","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Space Daily","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.spacedaily.com\/reports\/NASA_Investigates_Spaceborne_Antibiotic_Resistance_with_ISS_Experiment_999.html","dateline":{"date":"2025-02-20T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2025-02-20T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"192250","name":"cos-microbial"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"680292":{"#nid":"680292","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Months after Georgia chemical plant fire, residents still grapple with health issues","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EA chemical plant fire near Atlanta last fall released a toxic plume that disrupted the lives of nearby residents. Many still experience health problems and don\u0027t know what was released in the plume.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EResearchers like\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/huey-dr-greg\u0022\u003EGreg Huey\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, say early tests found other chemicals in addition to chlorine in the plume. They found irritants like bromine and isocyanic acid that can cause symptoms like coughing and wheezing. His team is analyzing more air quality data and expects to share the findings in the coming weeks.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cThis might help people know what they\u0027re exposed to in this incident. But more importantly, if ever something like this happens again, we might have better ideas what to look for,\u201d Huey explains.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EA chemical plant fire near Atlanta last fall released a toxic plume that disrupted the lives of nearby residents. Many still experience health problems and don\u0027t know what was released in the plume.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EResearchers like\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/huey-dr-greg\u0022\u003EGreg Huey\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, say early tests found other chemicals in addition to chlorine in the plume. They found irritants like bromine and isocyanic acid that can cause symptoms like coughing and wheezing. His team is analyzing more air quality data and expects to share the findings in the coming weeks.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cThis might help people know what they\u0027re exposed to in this incident. But more importantly, if ever something like this happens again, we might have better ideas what to look for,\u201d Huey explains.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-02-06 16:52:54","changed_gmt":"2025-02-07 14:01:10","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"NPR","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/01\/29\/nx-s1-5252810\/months-after-georgia-chemical-plant-fire-residents-still-grapple-with-health-issues","dateline":{"date":"2025-01-29T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2025-01-29T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"42901","name":"Community"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"193982","name":"BioLab"},{"id":"175593","name":"School  of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"679918":{"#nid":"679918","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Learn how climatologists help our understanding of weather over time","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EIn this piece,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/handlos-dr-zachary\u0022\u003EZachary Handlos\u003C\/a\u003E, senior academic professional in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, explains the work of climatologists, stating that \u201cclimatologists can take on a lot of roles. It\u2019s important to understand the difference between weather and climate. So weather is the study of what\u0027s going on in the atmosphere right now. Climatology looks at data for a certain day and compares it to what\u2019s called a climate normal. What this means is, they take a 30-year period of data for that day, and from that baseline, say, \u2018Oh, the temperature today is above average or below average.\u0027\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EIn this piece,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/handlos-dr-zachary\u0022\u003EZachary Handlos\u003C\/a\u003E, senior academic professional in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, explains the work of climatologists, stating that \u201cclimatologists can take on a lot of roles. It\u2019s important to understand the difference between weather and climate. So weather is the study of what\u0027s going on in the atmosphere right now. Climatology looks at data for a certain day and compares it to what\u2019s called a climate normal. What this means is, they take a 30-year period of data for that day, and from that baseline, say, \u2018Oh, the temperature today is above average or below average.\u0027\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-01-24 15:14:30","changed_gmt":"2025-01-27 13:39:10","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Augusta Chronicle","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.augustachronicle.com\/story\/news\/environment\/2025\/01\/16\/things-you-may-not-know-about-climatologists-and-climate-science\/77723489007\/","dateline":{"date":"2025-01-16T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2025-01-16T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"174755","name":"climatologist"},{"id":"173050","name":"climate science"},{"id":"192254","name":"cos-climate"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"679919":{"#nid":"679919","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"How to evaluate the cognitive abilities of LLMs","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELanguage models have become an essential part of the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence (AI) psychology. In an article published in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ENature Human Behaviour\u003C\/em\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Psychology\u003C\/a\u003E Assistant Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/people\/anna-ivanova\u0022\u003EAnna Ivanova\u003C\/a\u003E discusses 14 methodological considerations that can be used to design more robust, generalizable studies that evaluate the cognitive abilities of language-based AI systems, as well as to accurately interpret the results of these studies.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ELanguage models have become an essential part of the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence (AI) psychology. In an article published in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ENature Human Behaviour\u003C\/em\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Psychology\u003C\/a\u003E Assistant Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/people\/anna-ivanova\u0022\u003EAnna Ivanova\u003C\/a\u003E discusses 14 methodological considerations that can be used to design more robust, generalizable studies that evaluate the cognitive abilities of language-based AI systems, as well as to accurately interpret the results of these studies.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-01-24 15:18:33","changed_gmt":"2025-01-27 13:37:19","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Nature Human Behaviour","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41562-024-02096-z","dateline":{"date":"2025-01-15T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2025-01-15T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"443951","name":"School of Psychology"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"167710","name":"School of Psychology"},{"id":"192863","name":"go-ai"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"679920":{"#nid":"679920","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Airborne Lead and Chlorine Levels Soared as L.A. Wildfires Raged","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWildfires are becoming a bigger focus for scientists that study air pollution, said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/ng-dr-nga-lee-sally\u0022\u003ENga Lee (Sally) Ng\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E. Ng is also the principal investigator of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ascent.research.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EASCENT\u003C\/a\u003E, a new federally funded, national monitoring network that began last year to measure a wide range of air pollutants in real time. 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This fast adaptation is altering what we know about how evolution works.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E(This story also appeared in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/evolution-lizards-3261972-2\/\u0022\u003EFuturity\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/newatlas.com\/biology\/evolution-in-action-lizards-florida\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ENew Atlas\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EFairchild Tropical Botanic Garden may look serene at first glance, but beneath the resplendent orchids and majestic banyans, two invasive lizards are waging a turf war.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe war started a few years ago when Cuban brown anoles, who have called South Florida home for about 100 years, came face to face for the first time with a new rival: crested anoles from Puerto Rico.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EAs the two species, which look almost identical and occupy the same ecological niche, faced off, biologists were able to document who was winning, and more importantly, how quickly the losers were adapting to survive on new turf.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA new\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-024-54302-1\u0022\u003Estudy\u003C\/a\u003E published in \u003Cem\u003ENature Communications \u003C\/em\u003Eby researchers, including \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E Assistant Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/james-stroud\u0022\u003EJames Stroud\u003C\/a\u003E, reveals that the losing species is adapting at a rapid pace, changing their behavior, but also their bodies. 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The blaze lasted about two and a half weeks, created a plume of chemicals that wafted over the county and parts of metro Atlanta, and has prompted more than 20 class-action lawsuits blaming the company for illnesses and business closures.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/huey-dr-greg\u0022\u003EProfessor Greg Huey\u003C\/a\u003E and his research group plan to calibrate and study the data, make it accessible to the public, identify as many compounds as possible that were in the plume, and prioritize reviews based on toxicity.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E(This story also appeared at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/atlanta\/news\/2024\/12\/09\/georgia-tech-bio-lab-nsf-funding.html\u0022\u003EAtlanta Business Chronicle.)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech has received a rapid grant of more than $86,000 from the National Science Foundation to study air-monitoring data the university conducted during the BioLab incident in Rockdale County this fall. Georgia Tech\u0027s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E deployed a mobile monitoring station at the city of Conyers\u0027 request shortly after the fire started on Sept. 29. 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However, existing structural databases focusing on these interactions are limited to integral membrane proteins. A systematic understanding of diverse lipid-protein interactions also encompassing lipid-anchored, peripheral membrane and soluble lipid binding proteins remains to be elucidated.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo address this gap and facilitate the research of universal lipid-protein assemblies, researchers including \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/andrew-mcshan\u0022\u003EAndrew C. McShan\u003C\/a\u003E developed \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.biodolphin.chemistry.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EBioDolphin\u003C\/a\u003E \u2014 a curated database with over 127,000 lipid-protein interactions. 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Maybe it\u2019s the tune that was playing during your first dance, or the anthem of a memorable road trip. People often think of these musical memories as fixed snapshots of the past. But recent research suggests music may do more than just trigger memories \u2013 it might even change how you remember them.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn this article, Ph.D. student in the School of Psychology \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/people\/yiren-ren\u0022\u003EYiren Ren\u003C\/a\u003E discusses \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3758\/s13415-024-01200-0\u0022\u003Erecently published research\u003C\/a\u003E, which has uncovered intriguing connections between music, emotion, and memory.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E(This story also appeared at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2024\/11\/29\/music-memory-emotions-ptsd\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Washington Post\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/music-emotional-memory-28209\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ENeuroscience News\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.inkl.com\/news\/music-doesn-t-just-trigger-memories-it-can-fundamentally-alter-them\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003Einkl\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHave you ever noticed how a particular song can bring back a flood of memories? Maybe it\u2019s the tune that was playing during your first dance, or the anthem of a memorable road trip. People often think of these musical memories as fixed snapshots of the past. But recent research suggests music may do more than just trigger memories \u2013 it might even change how you remember them.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn this article, Ph.D. student in the School of Psychology \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/people\/yiren-ren\u0022\u003EYiren Ren\u003C\/a\u003E discusses \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3758\/s13415-024-01200-0\u0022\u003Erecently published research\u003C\/a\u003E, which has uncovered intriguing connections between music, emotion, and memory.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E(This story also appeared at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2024\/11\/29\/music-memory-emotions-ptsd\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Washington Post\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/music-emotional-memory-28209\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ENeuroscience News\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.inkl.com\/news\/music-doesn-t-just-trigger-memories-it-can-fundamentally-alter-them\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003Einkl\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2024-12-04 15:11:42","changed_gmt":"2024-12-16 16:45:38","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"The Conversation ","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/music-can-change-how-you-feel-about-the-past-239045","dateline":{"date":"2024-12-02T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2024-12-02T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"443951","name":"School of Psychology"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"192253","name":"cos-neuro"},{"id":"193935","name":"music and memory"},{"id":"167710","name":"School of Psychology"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"678621":{"#nid":"678621","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"The Lizard King of Long Island","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EEnvironmental journalist and author Ben Goldfarb reveals the story of how one biologist spread a non-native species of lizard across the Northeast. According to Goldfarb, Queens College professor of biology Jon Sperling secretly captured, bred, and released Italian wall lizards for many years.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cRegardless of how much you love lizards\u2014and I love lizards a lot\u2014you can\u2019t do that,\u201d says\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/james-stroud\u0022\u003EJames Stroud\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cThey are incredible organisms to watch, and they\u2019re beautiful. I can understand his perspective, but I can\u2019t agree with his actions.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EEnvironmental journalist and author Ben Goldfarb reveals the story of how one biologist spread a non-native species of lizard across the Northeast. According to Goldfarb, Queens College professor of biology Jon Sperling secretly captured, bred, and released Italian wall lizards for many years.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cRegardless of how much you love lizards\u2014and I love lizards a lot\u2014you can\u2019t do that,\u201d says\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/james-stroud\u0022\u003EJames Stroud\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cThey are incredible organisms to watch, and they\u2019re beautiful. I can understand his perspective, but I can\u2019t agree with his actions.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2024-11-25 16:05:01","changed_gmt":"2024-11-26 15:04:47","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"The New Yorker","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/the-weekend-essay\/the-lizard-king-of-long-island","dateline":{"date":"2024-11-16T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2024-11-16T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"7116","name":"lizard"},{"id":"185936","name":"invasive species"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"678146":{"#nid":"678146","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"The world\u2019s oldest tree? Genetic analysis traces evolution of iconic Pando forest","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EDNA samples from one of the world\u2019s largest and oldest plants \u2014 a quaking aspen tree (\u003Cem\u003EPopulus tremuloides\u003C\/em\u003E) in Utah called Pando \u2014 have helped researchers to determine its age and revealed clues about its evolutionary history.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s kind of shocking to me that there hasn\u2019t been a lot of genetic interest in Pando already, given how cool it is,\u201d says study co-author\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/will-ratcliff\u0022\u003EWilliam Ratcliff\u003C\/a\u003E, an associate professor in the\u0026nbsp; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EBy inputting Pando\u2019s genetic data into a theoretical model that plots an organism\u2019s evolutionary lineage, the researchers estimated Pando\u2019s age. They put this at between 16,000 and 80,000 years. \u201cIt makes the Roman Empire seem like just a young, recent thing,\u201d says Ratcliff.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E(This also appeared at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/this-utah-clone-forest-among-oldest-organisms-planet-1981475\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ENewsweek\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2454482-worlds-largest-tree-is-also-among-the-oldest-living-organisms\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ENewScientist\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EDNA samples from one of the world\u2019s largest and oldest plants \u2014 a quaking aspen tree (\u003Cem\u003EPopulus tremuloides\u003C\/em\u003E) in Utah called Pando \u2014 have helped researchers to determine its age and revealed clues about its evolutionary history.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s kind of shocking to me that there hasn\u2019t been a lot of genetic interest in Pando already, given how cool it is,\u201d says study co-author\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/will-ratcliff\u0022\u003EWilliam Ratcliff\u003C\/a\u003E, an associate professor in the\u0026nbsp; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EBy inputting Pando\u2019s genetic data into a theoretical model that plots an organism\u2019s evolutionary lineage, the researchers estimated Pando\u2019s age. They put this at between 16,000 and 80,000 years. \u201cIt makes the Roman Empire seem like just a young, recent thing,\u201d says Ratcliff.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E(This also appeared at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/this-utah-clone-forest-among-oldest-organisms-planet-1981475\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ENewsweek\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2454482-worlds-largest-tree-is-also-among-the-oldest-living-organisms\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ENewScientist\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2024-11-04 20:41:38","changed_gmt":"2024-11-12 21:24:49","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Nature ","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-024-03570-4","dateline":{"date":"2024-11-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-11-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"194067","name":"go-biointhenews"},{"id":"194069","name":"Pando"},{"id":"194073","name":"quaking aspen"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"678145":{"#nid":"678145","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Life evolves. So do minerals. How about everything else?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELast week, Michael Wong and Robert Hazen of the Carnegie Institution for Science welcomed a diverse group of nearly 100 scientists, from microbiology to neuroscience, for a workshop on how complexity emerges and evolves. It was also a referendum on their audacious proposal, which, Wong said in a talk, is \u201can explanatory framework for the evolution of physical systems writ large, including, but not limited to, biology.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt\u2019s an appealing idea, says \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/loren-williams\u0022\u003ELoren Williams\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E who studies the origin of life and attended the workshop. \u201cTo me it seems very clear that there is evolution outside of biology.\u201d Take the polypeptide backbone, the chain of molecules that forms the spine of all amino acids, he says. \u201c[Biological] evolution doesn\u2019t touch that, right? It\u2019s the same in everything alive. It always has been. But it\u2019s a product of evolution, I\u2019m convinced.\u201d It\u2019s just that the evolution happened before life began, he says. And so when Hazen and his co-authors proposed their overarching theory, he says, \u201cthat just resonated with me.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELast week, Michael Wong and Robert Hazen of the Carnegie Institution for Science welcomed a diverse group of nearly 100 scientists, from microbiology to neuroscience, for a workshop on how complexity emerges and evolves. It was also a referendum on their audacious proposal, which, Wong said in a talk, is \u201can explanatory framework for the evolution of physical systems writ large, including, but not limited to, biology.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt\u2019s an appealing idea, says \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/loren-williams\u0022\u003ELoren Williams\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E who studies the origin of life and attended the workshop. \u201cTo me it seems very clear that there is evolution outside of biology.\u201d Take the polypeptide backbone, the chain of molecules that forms the spine of all amino acids, he says. \u201c[Biological] evolution doesn\u2019t touch that, right? It\u2019s the same in everything alive. It always has been. But it\u2019s a product of evolution, I\u2019m convinced.\u201d It\u2019s just that the evolution happened before life began, he says. And so when Hazen and his co-authors proposed their overarching theory, he says, \u201cthat just resonated with me.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2024-11-04 20:29:10","changed_gmt":"2024-11-05 16:44:24","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Science","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/life-evolves-so-do-minerals-how-about-everything-else","dateline":{"date":"2024-11-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-11-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"3028","name":"evolution"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"678147":{"#nid":"678147","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Two hurricanes in October damage Southeast, raise climate change concerns","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EHurricane Helene hit parts of inland North Carolina and caused flooding and damage in parts of Georgia, both areas not used to these sorts of conditions.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/bracco-dr-annalisa\u0022\u003EAnnalisa Bracco\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, said climate change is causing extreme weather conditions in places unfamiliar with these disasters.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cIn general, [the increase in natural disasters] is telling us that the climate is indeed changing and that climate models have been overall correct in predicting conditions that will exacerbate extreme events, and we are seeing the impacts of that,\u201d Bracco said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cTemperatures are getting higher and extremes are getting more common: more droughts, more heavy rains, more forest fires, more heat waves, increased storminess, also more strong cold spells in places not used to getting them as strong.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EHurricane Helene hit parts of inland North Carolina and caused flooding and damage in parts of Georgia, both areas not used to these sorts of conditions.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/bracco-dr-annalisa\u0022\u003EAnnalisa Bracco\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, said climate change is causing extreme weather conditions in places unfamiliar with these disasters.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cIn general, [the increase in natural disasters] is telling us that the climate is indeed changing and that climate models have been overall correct in predicting conditions that will exacerbate extreme events, and we are seeing the impacts of that,\u201d Bracco said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cTemperatures are getting higher and extremes are getting more common: more droughts, more heavy rains, more forest fires, more heat waves, increased storminess, also more strong cold spells in places not used to getting them as strong.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2024-11-04 20:51:31","changed_gmt":"2024-11-05 16:41:58","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"The Southerner","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/thesoutherneronline.com\/96874\/news\/two-hurricanes-in-october-damage-southeast-raise-concerns\/","dateline":{"date":"2024-10-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-10-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"175593","name":"School  of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"831","name":"climate change"},{"id":"105821","name":"extreme weather"},{"id":"192254","name":"cos-climate"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"678148":{"#nid":"678148","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Your gut bacteria are at war \u2014 and force their enemies to switch sides","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EYour gut is a battleground where rival tribes of bacteria armed with poison darts fight for territory \u2013 and these battles are often won by armies of traitors made to switch sides by selfish DNA transferred to them by their enemies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSide switching may be more common than we have appreciated,\u201d says \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/brian-hammer\u0022\u003EBrian Hammer\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E. The bacterium that causes cholera also constantly produces and fires dart guns. While it has been assumed that this behaviour is costly, last year Hammer\u2019s team showed that strains of Vibrio cholerae that don\u2019t produce T6SSs \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2023.03.24.534098\u0022\u003Ehardly grow any faster than those that do\u003C\/a\u003E, suggesting that the cost of going around with guns blazing is surprisingly small.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EYour gut is a battleground where rival tribes of bacteria armed with poison darts fight for territory \u2013 and these battles are often won by armies of traitors made to switch sides by selfish DNA transferred to them by their enemies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSide switching may be more common than we have appreciated,\u201d says \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/brian-hammer\u0022\u003EBrian Hammer\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E. The bacterium that causes cholera also constantly produces and fires dart guns. While it has been assumed that this behaviour is costly, last year Hammer\u2019s team showed that strains of Vibrio cholerae that don\u2019t produce T6SSs \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2023.03.24.534098\u0022\u003Ehardly grow any faster than those that do\u003C\/a\u003E, suggesting that the cost of going around with guns blazing is surprisingly small.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2024-11-04 20:57:50","changed_gmt":"2024-11-05 16:39:05","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"NewScientist","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2453218-your-gut-bacteria-are-at-war-and-force-their-enemies-to-switch-sides\/","dateline":{"date":"2024-10-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-10-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"194071","name":"microbial warfare"},{"id":"192250","name":"cos-microbial"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"677867":{"#nid":"677867","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Is There Another Hurricane Coming and When Is Hurricane Season Over?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe 2024 Atlantic hurricane season has been intense, marked by multiple powerful storms hitting the U.S. coast. The season runs from June 1 to November 30, with conditions like warm ocean temperatures and low wind shear fostering storm development. \u0022Storms can intensify fast if they encounter the right conditions and that could happen at any time,\u0022 says \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/bracco-dr-annalisa\u0022\u003EAnnalisa Bracco\u003C\/a\u003E, associate chair and professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0022But we are later in the season, and that means that favorable conditions for fast intensification are less likely than when Milton happened. Wind shear tends to be stronger \u2014 on average \u2014 at the end of October compared to early September, and sea surface temperatures are on average cooler than in August-September.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe 2024 Atlantic hurricane season has been intense, marked by multiple powerful storms hitting the U.S. coast. The season runs from June 1 to November 30, with conditions like warm ocean temperatures and low wind shear fostering storm development. \u0022Storms can intensify fast if they encounter the right conditions and that could happen at any time,\u0022 says \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/bracco-dr-annalisa\u0022\u003EAnnalisa Bracco\u003C\/a\u003E, associate chair and professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0022But we are later in the season, and that means that favorable conditions for fast intensification are less likely than when Milton happened. Wind shear tends to be stronger \u2014 on average \u2014 at the end of October compared to early September, and sea surface temperatures are on average cooler than in August-September.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36609","created_gmt":"2024-10-23 16:29:23","changed_gmt":"2024-10-23 16:29:23","author":"acook304","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Newsweek","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/hurricane-season-atlantic-ocean-2024-more-storms-1973001","dateline":{"date":"2024-10-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-10-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"171968","name":"Annalisa Bracco"},{"id":"1860","name":"hurricane"},{"id":"105821","name":"extreme weather"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"677820":{"#nid":"677820","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"\u2018Halloween Comet\u2019 Could be Visible During Daytime This Week ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETalk about a Halloween treat. Astronomers say a recently discovered comet will be blazing by the Earth in broad daylight just in time for Halloween. Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/wray-dr-james\u0022\u003EJames Wray \u003C\/a\u003Ein the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/home\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E says Comet C\/2024 S1, first found at the end of September, will pass around the Earth on Oct. 24. \u0022Look low in the eastern sky just before sunrise,\u201d says Wray. \u0022Then, after swinging around the sun, the comet may reappear in the western night sky right around Halloween.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ERelated Coverage: \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/science\/halloween-comet-set-to-light-up-sky-in-octoberbut-will-it-survive-sun\/articleshow\/114457134.cms\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Times of India\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.space.com\/comet-tsuchinshan-atlas-halloween-visitor-from-oort-cloud\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESpace.com\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETalk about a Halloween treat. Astronomers say a recently discovered comet will be blazing by the Earth in broad daylight just in time for Halloween. Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/wray-dr-james\u0022\u003EJames Wray \u003C\/a\u003Ein the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/home\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E says Comet C\/2024 S1, first found at the end of September, will pass around the Earth on Oct. 24. \u0022Look low in the eastern sky just before sunrise,\u201d says Wray. \u0022Then, after swinging around the sun, the comet may reappear in the western night sky right around Halloween.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ERelated Coverage: \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/science\/halloween-comet-set-to-light-up-sky-in-octoberbut-will-it-survive-sun\/articleshow\/114457134.cms\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Times of India\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.space.com\/comet-tsuchinshan-atlas-halloween-visitor-from-oort-cloud\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESpace.com\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36609","created_gmt":"2024-10-22 18:15:08","changed_gmt":"2024-10-22 18:22:41","author":"acook304","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"New York Post","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/10\/21\/science\/halloween-comet-could-be-visible-during-daytime-this-week-heres-the-best-time-to-see-it\/","dateline":{"date":"2024-10-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-10-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"194023","name":"oort cloud"},{"id":"52181","name":"James Wray"},{"id":"194024","name":"comets"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"677819":{"#nid":"677819","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Farmers\u0027 Almanac or Weather Services for Winter Weather Outlook? What We Know","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EExtreme weather linked to climate change drives people to rely on familiar but unreliable sources like the Farmers\u2019 Almanac for forecasts, which are only about 52% accurate. In contrast, the National Weather Service (NWS) offers structured long-term forecasts focused on temperature and precipitation. Senior Academic Professional \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/handlos-dr-zachary\u0022\u003EZachary Handlos\u003C\/a\u003E in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/home\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E says both sources have the same general idea. \u0022They have one or two writers that put out a winter forecast every year,\u201d says Handlos. \u201cI think they keep the identity of the writers a little cryptic. It\u2019s part of the lore of reading it. Both claim that their forecasts are science based. But some of it\u2019s also a mix of what farmers know in terms of intuition, astronomy and things like that. There\u0027s a little bit of folklore, which makes it fun.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EExtreme weather linked to climate change drives people to rely on familiar but unreliable sources like the Farmers\u2019 Almanac for forecasts, which are only about 52% accurate. In contrast, the National Weather Service (NWS) offers structured long-term forecasts focused on temperature and precipitation. Senior Academic Professional \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/handlos-dr-zachary\u0022\u003EZachary Handlos\u003C\/a\u003E in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/home\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E says both sources have the same general idea. \u0022They have one or two writers that put out a winter forecast every year,\u201d says Handlos. \u201cI think they keep the identity of the writers a little cryptic. It\u2019s part of the lore of reading it. Both claim that their forecasts are science based. But some of it\u2019s also a mix of what farmers know in terms of intuition, astronomy and things like that. There\u0027s a little bit of folklore, which makes it fun.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36609","created_gmt":"2024-10-22 18:03:14","changed_gmt":"2024-10-22 18:03:14","author":"acook304","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Augusta Chronicle","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.augustachronicle.com\/story\/news\/environment\/2024\/10\/19\/climate-change-means-above-normal-winter-temperatures-in-georgia\/75719947007\/","dateline":{"date":"2024-10-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-10-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"8871","name":"National Weather Service"},{"id":"113741","name":"predictions"},{"id":"4105","name":"winter"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"677561":{"#nid":"677561","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is a Halloween Visitor From the Spooky Oort Cloud","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Oort Cloud is a theoretical, massive spherical shell surrounding the Sun and planets. Though invisible due to its vast size and faint particles, astronomers infer its existence as it explains the appearance of long-period comets. In \u003Cem\u003EThe Conversation\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/wray-dr-james\u0022\u003EJames Wray\u003C\/a\u003E, \u0026nbsp;professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/home\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences,\u003C\/a\u003E discusses his research on the Oort Cloud, along with two comets\u2014Tsuchinshan-ATLAS (Comet C\/2023 A3) and C\/2024 S1 (ATLAS)\u2014which are expected to be visible this month.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERelated Coverage: \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2024\/10\/two-comets-will-be-visible-in-the-night-skies-this-month\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EArs Technica\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.discovermagazine.com\/the-sciences\/comet-tsuchinshan-atlas-is-a-halloween-visitor-from-the-mysterious-oort\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDiscover Magazine\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/thecurrentga.org\/2024\/10\/19\/october-comets-visit-earth-from-spooky-oort-cloud\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Current\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Oort Cloud is a theoretical, massive spherical shell surrounding the Sun and planets. Though invisible due to its vast size and faint particles, astronomers infer its existence as it explains the appearance of long-period comets. In \u003Cem\u003EThe Conversation\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/wray-dr-james\u0022\u003EJames Wray\u003C\/a\u003E, \u0026nbsp;professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/home\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences,\u003C\/a\u003E discusses his research on the Oort Cloud, along with two comets\u2014Tsuchinshan-ATLAS (Comet C\/2023 A3) and C\/2024 S1 (ATLAS)\u2014which are expected to be visible this month.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERelated Coverage: \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2024\/10\/two-comets-will-be-visible-in-the-night-skies-this-month\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EArs Technica\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.discovermagazine.com\/the-sciences\/comet-tsuchinshan-atlas-is-a-halloween-visitor-from-the-mysterious-oort\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDiscover Magazine\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/thecurrentga.org\/2024\/10\/19\/october-comets-visit-earth-from-spooky-oort-cloud\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Current\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36609","created_gmt":"2024-10-14 15:02:41","changed_gmt":"2024-10-21 18:24:31","author":"acook304","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"The Conversation ","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/comet-tsuchinshan-atlas-is-a-halloween-visitor-from-the-spooky-oort-cloud-the-invisible-bubble-thats-home-to-countless-space-objects-236849","dateline":{"date":"2024-10-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-10-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"194023","name":"oort cloud"},{"id":"194024","name":"comets"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"677785":{"#nid":"677785","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Will Hurricane Nadine Form This Week? Here\u0027s What the Experts Think","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA potential tropical storm, which would be named Nadine, is forming in the central Atlantic with a low chance of developing into a hurricane. It\u2019s expected to pass near the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Bahamas, though strong winds may prevent further strengthening. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/bracco-dr-annalisa\u0022\u003EAnnalisa Bracco,\u003C\/a\u003E professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/home\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, says very warm sea surface temperature \u2014 the engine in terms of energy for the storm to grow \u2014 along with low wind shear and low surface salinity, help storms intensify by concentrating the high temperatures near the surface.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA potential tropical storm, which would be named Nadine, is forming in the central Atlantic with a low chance of developing into a hurricane. It\u2019s expected to pass near the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Bahamas, though strong winds may prevent further strengthening. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/bracco-dr-annalisa\u0022\u003EAnnalisa Bracco,\u003C\/a\u003E professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/home\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, says very warm sea surface temperature \u2014 the engine in terms of energy for the storm to grow \u2014 along with low wind shear and low surface salinity, help storms intensify by concentrating the high temperatures near the surface.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36609","created_gmt":"2024-10-21 17:31:21","changed_gmt":"2024-10-21 17:31:21","author":"acook304","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Newsweek","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/potential-tropical-storm-nadine-weather-atlantic-intensification-1970808","dateline":{"date":"2024-10-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-10-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"42901","name":"Community"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"172317","name":"Tropical Storm"},{"id":"171968","name":"Annalisa Bracco"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"194039","name":"Nadine"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"677686":{"#nid":"677686","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"A Cloud of Noxious Chemicals and Lawsuits Is Descending Outside Atlanta","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETwo weeks ago, a facility owned by BioLab in Conyers, Georgia, outside of Atlanta blew up, sending a huge and rancid cloud miles around. It seems the water used to extinguish the fire reacted with pool chemicals in the plant, which made the cloud more noxious. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/ng-dr-nga-lee-sally\u0022\u003ESally Ng\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, says a system known as the Atmospheric Science and Chemistry Measurement Network detected a 1,400-times increase in the amount of chlorine-containing particles in the air, and a 170-times increase in the amount of bromine-containing particles in the air over Decatur.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETwo weeks ago, a facility owned by BioLab in Conyers, Georgia, outside of Atlanta blew up, sending a huge and rancid cloud miles around. It seems the water used to extinguish the fire reacted with pool chemicals in the plant, which made the cloud more noxious. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/ng-dr-nga-lee-sally\u0022\u003ESally Ng\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, says a system known as the Atmospheric Science and Chemistry Measurement Network detected a 1,400-times increase in the amount of chlorine-containing particles in the air, and a 170-times increase in the amount of bromine-containing particles in the air over Decatur.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36609","created_gmt":"2024-10-17 13:42:22","changed_gmt":"2024-10-17 13:42:22","author":"acook304","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Esquire","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/politics\/a62600626\/biolab-fire-chemicals-leak-georgia\/","dateline":{"date":"2024-10-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-10-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"193982","name":"BioLab"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"677612":{"#nid":"677612","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Here\u0027s When to View Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS Over Georgia, Metro Atlanta","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThrough the weekend of Saturday, Oct. 19, and Sunday, Oct. 20, you\u0027ll be able to see a rare comet in the sky each evening above north Georgia. Comet C\/2023 A3, known as\u0026nbsp;Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, will be visible about 30 minutes after sunset and can be seen in the western sky. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/wray-dr-james\u0022\u003EJames Wray\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, discusses his research on the comet and the Oort Cloud. \u0026nbsp;\u0022The human mind may find it difficult to conceptualize: a cosmic cloud so colossal it surrounds the Sun and eight planets as it extends trillions of miles into deep space,\u0022 Wray says. \u0022The spherical shell known as the Oort Cloud is, for all practical purposes, invisible.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThrough the weekend of Saturday, Oct. 19, and Sunday, Oct. 20, you\u0027ll be able to see a rare comet in the sky each evening above north Georgia. Comet C\/2023 A3, known as\u0026nbsp;Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, will be visible about 30 minutes after sunset and can be seen in the western sky. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/wray-dr-james\u0022\u003EJames Wray\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, discusses his research on the comet and the Oort Cloud. \u0026nbsp;\u0022The human mind may find it difficult to conceptualize: a cosmic cloud so colossal it surrounds the Sun and eight planets as it extends trillions of miles into deep space,\u0022 Wray says. \u0022The spherical shell known as the Oort Cloud is, for all practical purposes, invisible.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36609","created_gmt":"2024-10-16 13:28:01","changed_gmt":"2024-10-16 13:28:01","author":"acook304","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"11Alive 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The Gulf of Mexico\u2019s waters, particularly those above 89.6 degrees Fahrenheit, played a key role in the rapid development of Milton into a Category 5 storm.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Numerical models in the past five years or so have improved to resolve hurricanes and typhoons at global scales and they do agree that the intensification of hurricanes - more hurricanes of strength 4 or 5 - and typhoons, and a tendency for depression to turn more easily into hurricanes is the result of climate change,\u0022 says \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/people\/annalisa-bracco\u0022\u003EAnnalisa Bracco\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/home\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERelated Coverage: \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/xcmag.com\/fly-better\/weather\/hurricanes-what-is-rapid-intensification\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECross Country\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENASA images of Hurricane Milton, showing unusually high sea surface temperatures, highlight how climate conditions can accelerate hurricane intensification. The Gulf of Mexico\u2019s waters, particularly those above 89.6 degrees Fahrenheit, played a key role in the rapid development of Milton into a Category 5 storm.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Numerical models in the past five years or so have improved to resolve hurricanes and typhoons at global scales and they do agree that the intensification of hurricanes - more hurricanes of strength 4 or 5 - and typhoons, and a tendency for depression to turn more easily into hurricanes is the result of climate change,\u0022 says \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/people\/annalisa-bracco\u0022\u003EAnnalisa Bracco\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/home\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERelated Coverage: \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/xcmag.com\/fly-better\/weather\/hurricanes-what-is-rapid-intensification\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECross Country\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36609","created_gmt":"2024-10-10 18:49:49","changed_gmt":"2024-10-15 13:34:39","author":"acook304","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Newsweek","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/hurricane-milton-category-5-intensification-nasa-images-1966335","dateline":{"date":"2024-10-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-10-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"171968","name":"Annalisa Bracco"},{"id":"194000","name":"Hurricane Milton"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"677360":{"#nid":"677360","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Helene Shows Growing Reach of Hurricanes Well into Georgia and Beyond, Experts Say","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHurricane Helene\u2019s destructive and deadly rampage through multiple Southeastern states after coming ashore on Florida\u2019s Gulf Coast exemplifies the potential expanding impact of extreme tropical weather. Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/sarhadi-dr-ali\u0022\u003EAli Sarhadi \u003C\/a\u003Ein the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/home\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E says \u201cthis tragedy highlights the increasing vulnerability of inland regions to the impacts of hurricanes. As climate change intensifies storm behavior, including increased rainfall and slower storm movement, areas previously considered less susceptible are now facing heightened risks.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHurricane Helene\u2019s destructive and deadly rampage through multiple Southeastern states after coming ashore on Florida\u2019s Gulf Coast exemplifies the potential expanding impact of extreme tropical weather. 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Low wind shear, as well as sea surface temperatures and atmospheric moisture, are key factors that affect whether a storm will intensify into a hurricane, and how strong that hurricane might get. 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Low wind shear, as well as sea surface temperatures and atmospheric moisture, are key factors that affect whether a storm will intensify into a hurricane, and how strong that hurricane might get. 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Here\u2019s What the Science Says","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen deciding on what music to improve productivity at work, you may want to consider two important variables: predictability and novelty. Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/people\/thackery-i-brown\u0022\u003EThackery Brown\u003C\/a\u003E in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Psychology\u003C\/a\u003E has been working with \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/yiren-ren-4756a78b\u0022\u003EYiren Ren\u003C\/a\u003E, a sixth-year PhD student, on examining how music affected a subject\u2019s ability to process or remember new information. \u201cMusic is just such an emotional medium,\u201d says Ren. \u201cIt can not only modulate how you feel at that moment, it can also modulate the memory you\u2019re recalling at that moment and how you perceive that memory itself.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen deciding on what music to improve productivity at work, you may want to consider two important variables: predictability and novelty. 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The fire activated a sprinkler system and doused water-reactive trichloroisocyanuric acid (TCCA) inside the building. This initiated a chemical decomposition reaction that released chlorine gas into the atmosphere.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELove Family Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/people\/nga-lee-sally-ng\u0022\u003ESally Ng\u003C\/a\u003E in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/home\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E confirms the morning after the fire, the number of chlorine-containing particles detected in the air at the Ascent\u0027s Decatur site, around 28km from the BioLab plant, had increased by about 1400 times. 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This initiated a chemical decomposition reaction that released chlorine gas into the atmosphere.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELove Family Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/people\/nga-lee-sally-ng\u0022\u003ESally Ng\u003C\/a\u003E in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/home\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E confirms the morning after the fire, the number of chlorine-containing particles detected in the air at the Ascent\u0027s Decatur site, around 28km from the BioLab plant, had increased by about 1400 times. 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A reporter from 11 Alive news interviews Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/joseph-sadighi\u0022\u003EJoseph Sadighi\u003C\/a\u003E in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E about whether the chemicals can impact groundwater. He says, while the chemicals can seep into the groundwater, \u0022my best bet would be if you weren\u0027t choking and rubbing your eyes from the chlorine in the air, your water is probably ok.\u0022\u003C\/div\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36609","created_gmt":"2024-10-07 15:17:47","changed_gmt":"2024-10-07 15:17:47","author":"acook304","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"11 Alive","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8ZSJgI4-TwE","dateline":{"date":"2024-10-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-10-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"85951","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"}],"categories":[{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166928","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"},{"id":"193982","name":"BioLab"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"677330":{"#nid":"677330","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Scientists in Atlanta Monitoring Air from Conyers Chemical Plume","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EScientists in Atlanta are monitoring the BioLab fire situation and the impact on the air that we breathe. Reporter Liza Lucas with 11 Alive news interviews Love Family Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/people\/nga-lee-sally-ng\u0022\u003ESally Ng\u003C\/a\u003E with the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/home\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E for insight into what is in the air. \u0022When the fire occurred, part of the pollutant was brought outside by the wind,\u0022 says Ng. Her team documented an \u0022unusually high spike in chlorine and bromine containing particles,\u0022 but says \u0022the spike still falls within EPA safety standards.\u0022 Ng\u0027s team continues to monitor the situation.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003EScientists in Atlanta are monitoring the BioLab fire situation and the impact on the air that we breathe. Reporter Liza Lucas with 11 Alive news interviews Love Family Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/people\/nga-lee-sally-ng\u0022\u003ESally Ng\u003C\/a\u003E with the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/home\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E for insight into what is in the air. \u0022When the fire occurred, part of the pollutant was brought outside by the wind,\u0022 says Ng. Her team documented an \u0022unusually high spike in chlorine and bromine containing particles,\u0022 but says \u0022the spike still falls within EPA safety standards.\u0022 Ng\u0027s team continues to monitor the situation.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36609","created_gmt":"2024-10-04 20:16:38","changed_gmt":"2024-10-07 14:07:37","author":"acook304","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"11 Alive","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QCSwN7bERsc","dateline":{"date":"2024-10-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-10-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"169677","name":"sally ng"},{"id":"193982","name":"BioLab"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"677246":{"#nid":"677246","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Conyers BioLab Plant Fire: What to Know","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA fire at a chemical plant in Rockdale County sent a colossal plume of smoke into the sky. Chemicals released from the fire at the BioLab in Conyers include chlorine, chloramine and chlorine compounds, according to the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency. Additionally, bromine \u2014 another chemical used in spa and pool treatments as an alternative to chlorine and has a bleach-like odor \u2014 was also detected, though at lower levels.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELove Family Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/people\/nga-lee-sally-ng\u0022\u003ENga Lee (Sally)\u003C\/a\u003E in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/home\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E says \u0022a system known as the Atmospheric Science and Chemistry Measurement Network detected a 1,400-times increase in the amount of chlorine-containing particles in the air, and a 170-times increase in the amount of bromine-containing particles in the air over Decatur on Monday morning. Typically, there is little of either element in the air.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA fire at a chemical plant in Rockdale County sent a colossal plume of smoke into the sky. Chemicals released from the fire at the BioLab in Conyers include chlorine, chloramine and chlorine compounds, according to the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency. Additionally, bromine \u2014 another chemical used in spa and pool treatments as an alternative to chlorine and has a bleach-like odor \u2014 was also detected, though at lower levels.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELove Family Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/people\/nga-lee-sally-ng\u0022\u003ENga Lee (Sally)\u003C\/a\u003E in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/home\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E says \u0022a system known as the Atmospheric Science and Chemistry Measurement Network detected a 1,400-times increase in the amount of chlorine-containing particles in the air, and a 170-times increase in the amount of bromine-containing particles in the air over Decatur on Monday morning. Typically, there is little of either element in the air.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36609","created_gmt":"2024-10-02 16:07:57","changed_gmt":"2024-10-02 16:07:57","author":"acook304","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"The Atlanta Journal-Constitution","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/crime\/conyers-chemical-plant-fire-what-to-know\/ZECJVWIRDNCR5P2DZJFSAXUQ2A\/","dateline":{"date":"2024-10-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-10-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"193982","name":"BioLab"},{"id":"193984","name":"Chemical Plant"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"677240":{"#nid":"677240","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Georgia Tech Chemistry Professor Breaks Down Chemicals in the air over Conyers BioLab Plant","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA chemical cloud has been emanating from Conyers since Sunday, when a fire broke out at the facility of a company that makes pool and spa treatments and sprinkler system water reacted with chemicals on site. The chemical plume put residents in Rockdale County into a shelter-in-place order. Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/joseph-sadighi\u0022\u003EJoseph Sadighi\u003C\/a\u003E in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E explained in a Q\u0026amp;A with 11Alive meteorologist Melissa Nord what is lingering in the air over the Conyers BioLab plant. He began with explaining the difference between chlorine and chlorine compounds.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Chlorine is an element that is very common in everyday life,\u0022 says Sadighi. \u0022Table salt is sodium chloride, which means it\u0027s chlorine that has picked up an electron and it\u0027s in a salt lattice that makes it very, very stable. If you run an electrical current through it, you can turn it into chlorine gas, that\u0027s a molecule made up of two chlorine atoms, and it is a gas under ordinary conditions. If we have it in a cylinder under pressure, at about eight atmospheres and room temperature, you have a liquid under the pressure of its own headspace like we do in propane gas cylinders for our grills.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA chemical cloud has been emanating from Conyers since Sunday, when a fire broke out at the facility of a company that makes pool and spa treatments and sprinkler system water reacted with chemicals on site. The chemical plume put residents in Rockdale County into a shelter-in-place order. Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/joseph-sadighi\u0022\u003EJoseph Sadighi\u003C\/a\u003E in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E explained in a Q\u0026amp;A with 11Alive meteorologist Melissa Nord what is lingering in the air over the Conyers BioLab plant. He began with explaining the difference between chlorine and chlorine compounds.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Chlorine is an element that is very common in everyday life,\u0022 says Sadighi. \u0022Table salt is sodium chloride, which means it\u0027s chlorine that has picked up an electron and it\u0027s in a salt lattice that makes it very, very stable. If you run an electrical current through it, you can turn it into chlorine gas, that\u0027s a molecule made up of two chlorine atoms, and it is a gas under ordinary conditions. If we have it in a cylinder under pressure, at about eight atmospheres and room temperature, you have a liquid under the pressure of its own headspace like we do in propane gas cylinders for our grills.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36609","created_gmt":"2024-10-02 13:39:23","changed_gmt":"2024-10-02 13:39:23","author":"acook304","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"11Alive WXIA","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.11alive.com\/article\/news\/local\/conyers\/explaining-what-exactly-is-in-air-over-conyers-biolab-plant\/85-541f7251-4365-48f3-aec7-4c5d0b9acdc3","dateline":{"date":"2024-10-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-10-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"85951","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"}],"categories":[{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166928","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"},{"id":"10382","name":"chemicals"},{"id":"193981","name":"chlorine"},{"id":"193982","name":"BioLab"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"677212":{"#nid":"677212","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"New Tropical Storm Isaac Forms as Hurricane Helene Barrels Toward Florida","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETropical Storm Isaac developed over the ocean, becoming the ninth named storm of the hurricane season. The storm formed rapidly from a tropical disturbance.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022A tropical disturbance is called a tropical depression whenever the winds are between 25 and 38 mph,\u0022 says \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/bracco-dr-annalisa\u0022\u003EAnnalisa Bracco\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/home\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0022When the wind speeds are between 39 and 73 mph it is classified as a tropical storm. Above 74 mph it is called a hurricane or typhoon.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHurricane Helene formed from an area of low pressure in the Caribbean and strengthened rapidly over a few days.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Two main conditions behind intensification are warm surface waters (the cyclone can extract energy from it and the warmer the water, the more energy it can extract to grow), and low wind shear (high wind shear tends to disrupt vortices, both cyclones and anticyclones),\u0022 says Bracco.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETropical Storm Isaac developed over the ocean, becoming the ninth named storm of the hurricane season. The storm formed rapidly from a tropical disturbance.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022A tropical disturbance is called a tropical depression whenever the winds are between 25 and 38 mph,\u0022 says \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/bracco-dr-annalisa\u0022\u003EAnnalisa Bracco\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/home\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0022When the wind speeds are between 39 and 73 mph it is classified as a tropical storm. Above 74 mph it is called a hurricane or typhoon.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHurricane Helene formed from an area of low pressure in the Caribbean and strengthened rapidly over a few days.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Two main conditions behind intensification are warm surface waters (the cyclone can extract energy from it and the warmer the water, the more energy it can extract to grow), and low wind shear (high wind shear tends to disrupt vortices, both cyclones and anticyclones),\u0022 says Bracco.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36609","created_gmt":"2024-10-01 13:18:41","changed_gmt":"2024-10-01 13:18:41","author":"acook304","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Newsweek","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/tropical-storm-isaac-forms-hurricane-helene-storm-surge-1959655","dateline":{"date":"2024-09-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-09-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"1860","name":"hurricane"},{"id":"172317","name":"Tropical Storm"},{"id":"131671","name":"Isaac"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"677211":{"#nid":"677211","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Ants May Force Insect-Eating Birds to Higher Ground","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOne group of birds is relatively scarce in the lowlands of South Asia: insect eaters. A study published in \u003Ccite\u003EEcology Letters\u003C\/cite\u003E may explain why. Weaver ants\u2014forest-dwelling ants that live in the lowlands and ferociously prey on small invertebrates\u2014might be gobbling up the birds\u2019 food source and pushing them to higher elevations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThat\u2019s a big-time idea, that it\u2019s ants that shape insect-eating bird communities,\u201d says \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences \u003C\/a\u003EAssistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/benjamin%20freeman\u0022\u003EBen Freeman\u003C\/a\u003E. He added though, while it\u2019s an intriguing pattern, he would like to see future work test the hypothesis experimentally.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOne group of birds is relatively scarce in the lowlands of South Asia: insect eaters. A study published in \u003Ccite\u003EEcology Letters\u003C\/cite\u003E may explain why. Weaver ants\u2014forest-dwelling ants that live in the lowlands and ferociously prey on small invertebrates\u2014might be gobbling up the birds\u2019 food source and pushing them to higher elevations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThat\u2019s a big-time idea, that it\u2019s ants that shape insect-eating bird communities,\u201d says \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences \u003C\/a\u003EAssistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/benjamin%20freeman\u0022\u003EBen Freeman\u003C\/a\u003E. 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According to two new studies led by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/people\/yiren-ren\u0022\u003EYiren Ren\u003C\/a\u003E, a PhD student in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Psychology\u003C\/a\u003E, different types of music can do more than just aid concentration; they can also influence our emotions and even reshape old memories.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERen\u0027s faculty advisor and co-author, Associate Professor\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/people\/thackery-i-brown\u0022\u003E Thackery Brown\u003C\/a\u003E, says the studies approach the impact of music from different angles. \u201cOne paper looks at how music changes the quality of your memory when you\u2019re first forming it \u2014 it\u2019s about learning,\u201d says Brown. \u201cBut the other study focuses on memories we already have and asks if we can change the emotions attached to them using music.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBrown is also a cognitive neuroscientist who runs the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/maplab.gatech.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMemory, Affect, and Planning (MAP) Lab\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERelated coverage: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2024-08-neuroscientists-explore-intersection-music-memory.html\u0022\u003EMedicalXpress\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/technology\/georgia-tech-study-unveils-musics-role-in-modulating-memory-and-emotion\/ar-AA1pDTyL\u0022\u003EMSN\u003C\/a\u003E, \u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/newatlas.com\/health-wellbeing\/music-affects-new-old-memories\/\u0022\u003ENew Atlas\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/technology\/georgia-tech-study-unveils-musics-role-in-modulating-memory-and-emotion\/ar-AA1pDTyL?ocid=BingNewsVerp\u0022\u003EMicrosoft Start\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/music-learning-memory-3248012-2\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFuturity\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cnnbrasil.com.br\/tecnologia\/musica-pode-turbinar-e-remodelar-memorias-mostra-estudo\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECNN Brasil\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/entry\/the-psychology-behind-how-music-can-impact-and-change-our-memories_uk_66e4501de4b03e3cc1000116\u0022\u003EHuffpost\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/goodmenproject.com\/featured-content\/music-can-enhance-learning-and-change-our-memories\/\u0022\u003EThe Good Man Project\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EScientists have long argued that familiar, beloved music \u2014 which is considered predictable and safe \u2014 can help enhance our focus and learning. 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These foreshocks occurred just seconds to minutes before the main shock and underscores a complex behavior change from the long-term swarm-like activities to the burst-like foreshock activities. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/home\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/peng-dr-zhigang\u0022\u003EZhigang Peng\u003C\/a\u003E talks about the importance of this study.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022While other recently published studies focused on one aspect of the Noto sequence, such as the mainshock rupture or relocation of small earthquakes, this study combines results from many different angles, including relocations of all seismic events since 2018,\u0022 says Peng. \u0022Hence, it is likely one of the most complete analyses so far for this sequence.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA study on the magnitude M 7.6 earthquake Noto Hanto, which struck Japan\u0027s Noto Peninsula on January 1st, 2024, shows it was preceded by a series of foreshocks including three significant events (M 5.5, M 4.6, and M 5.9). These foreshocks occurred just seconds to minutes before the main shock and underscores a complex behavior change from the long-term swarm-like activities to the burst-like foreshock activities. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/home\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/peng-dr-zhigang\u0022\u003EZhigang Peng\u003C\/a\u003E talks about the importance of this study.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022While other recently published studies focused on one aspect of the Noto sequence, such as the mainshock rupture or relocation of small earthquakes, this study combines results from many different angles, including relocations of all seismic events since 2018,\u0022 says Peng. \u0022Hence, it is likely one of the most complete analyses so far for this sequence.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36609","created_gmt":"2024-09-16 20:43:43","changed_gmt":"2024-09-16 20:43:43","author":"acook304","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Phys.org","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-09-complex-dynamics-noto-hanto-earthquake.html","dateline":{"date":"2024-09-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-09-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"5770","name":"Earthquake"},{"id":"12120","name":"earthquakes"},{"id":"193953","name":"Noto hanto"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"676842":{"#nid":"676842","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"How Fast Does Evolution Happen?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEvolution is the process by which a species\u0027 genes or physical appearance changes gradually over time. By the early to mid-20th century, scientists realized that evolution can happen much more quickly than ever realized. Several factors can lead to rapid evolution. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/home\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/james-stroud\u0022\u003EJames Stroud\u003C\/a\u003E explains that \u0022evolution is always occurring.\u0022 Stroud and other researchers are using nonnative green iguanas as a case study for rapid evolution. The warm-adapted lizards are known to freeze and fall out of trees during Miami\u0027s infrequent cold snaps.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022What we saw is that some die, but some survive \u2014 and the ones that survive can actually tolerate colder temperatures than the ones we measured before,\u0022 Stroud says. \u0022So it suggests that evolution might be happening.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEvolution is the process by which a species\u0027 genes or physical appearance changes gradually over time. By the early to mid-20th century, scientists realized that evolution can happen much more quickly than ever realized. Several factors can lead to rapid evolution. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/home\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/james-stroud\u0022\u003EJames Stroud\u003C\/a\u003E explains that \u0022evolution is always occurring.\u0022 Stroud and other researchers are using nonnative green iguanas as a case study for rapid evolution. The warm-adapted lizards are known to freeze and fall out of trees during Miami\u0027s infrequent cold snaps.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022What we saw is that some die, but some survive \u2014 and the ones that survive can actually tolerate colder temperatures than the ones we measured before,\u0022 Stroud says. \u0022So it suggests that evolution might be happening.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36609","created_gmt":"2024-09-16 20:23:22","changed_gmt":"2024-09-16 20:23:22","author":"acook304","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Live Science","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/planet-earth\/evolution\/how-fast-does-evolution-happen","dateline":{"date":"2024-09-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-09-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"173098","name":"animal evolution"},{"id":"1365","name":"biological"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"675470":{"#nid":"675470","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Huge neutrino detector sees first hints of particles from exploding stars","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEvery few seconds, somewhere in the observable Universe, a massive star collapses and unleashes a supernova explosion. Physicists say Japan\u2019s Super-Kamiokande (Super-K) observatory might now be collecting a steady trickle of neutrinos from those cataclysms \u2014 amounting to a few detections a year.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn an \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-024-02221-y\u0022\u003Earticle\u003C\/a\u003E published in \u003Cem\u003ENature\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/ignacio-taboada\u0022\u003EIgnacio Taboada\u003C\/a\u003E provides a brief commentary on this new research: \u0022The data from Super-K are still too weak to claim a discovery, but the prospect of detecting the diffuse neutrinos is extremely exciting\u201d, says Tabaoda, who is also the spokesperson for the IceCube neutrino observatory at the South Pole. \u201cNeutrinos would provide an independent measurement on the history of star formation in the Universe.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEvery few seconds, somewhere in the observable Universe, a massive star collapses and unleashes a supernova explosion. Physicists say Japan\u2019s Super-Kamiokande (Super-K) observatory might now be collecting a steady trickle of neutrinos from those cataclysms \u2014 amounting to a few detections a year.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn an \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-024-02221-y\u0022\u003Earticle\u003C\/a\u003E published in \u003Cem\u003ENature\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/ignacio-taboada\u0022\u003EIgnacio Taboada\u003C\/a\u003E provides a brief commentary on this new research: \u0022The data from Super-K are still too weak to claim a discovery, but the prospect of detecting the diffuse neutrinos is extremely exciting\u201d, says Tabaoda, who is also the spokesperson for the IceCube neutrino observatory at the South Pole. \u201cNeutrinos would provide an independent measurement on the history of star formation in the Universe.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36607","created_gmt":"2024-07-15 20:11:58","changed_gmt":"2024-09-09 20:49:25","author":"ls67","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Nature ","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-024-02221-y","dateline":{"date":"2024-07-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-07-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"167636","name":"supernova"},{"id":"30751","name":"neutrino"},{"id":"178529","name":"IceCube Neutrino Observatory"},{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"676667":{"#nid":"676667","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Astronomers Really Like the South Pole, but Why?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDespite the fact that Antarctica is extraordinarily difficult to get to, astronomers love it and have chosen it as the location for the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/icecube.wisc.edu\/\u0022\u003EIceCube Neutrino Observatory.\u003C\/a\u003E What could possibly make such a remote location so desirable for space science that it\u2019s worth all that trouble?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn this \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/science\/astronomy-south-pole\/\u0022\u003Earticle,\u003C\/a\u003E scientists including Georgia Tech\u0027s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/brandon-pries\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EBrandon Pries\u003C\/a\u003E from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E explain why the South Pole is such a hotspot for astronomers. The answer? At the South Pole, you can best view neutrons and neutrinos in space.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPries compares the benefits of the South Pole to the North Pole. \u201cThe North Pole is more difficult because ice coverage there fluctuates,\u201d explains Pries. \u201cThere is a foundation of bedrock underneath Antarctica that serves as a solid base for the IceCube instruments.\u201d This bedrock is also why Antarctica is home to the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/pole.uchicago.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESouth Pole Telescope\u003C\/a\u003E, a radio observatory that helped take the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/event-horizon-black-hole-image\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Efirst ever photo of a black hole\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDespite the fact that Antarctica is extraordinarily difficult to get to, astronomers love it and have chosen it as the location for the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/icecube.wisc.edu\/\u0022\u003EIceCube Neutrino Observatory.\u003C\/a\u003E What could possibly make such a remote location so desirable for space science that it\u2019s worth all that trouble?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn this \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/science\/astronomy-south-pole\/\u0022\u003Earticle,\u003C\/a\u003E scientists including Georgia Tech\u0027s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/brandon-pries\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EBrandon Pries\u003C\/a\u003E from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E explain why the South Pole is such a hotspot for astronomers. The answer? 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It is part of an international air quality effort called Pollution in the Arctic: Climate Environment and Societies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ERead the full story in the University of Alaska Fairbanks \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.uaf.edu\/news\/new-research-has-implications-for-fairbanks-winter-air-quality-improvement.php\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Enewsroom\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENew research shows that improving wintertime air quality in Fairbanks, Alaska \u2014 particularly in frigid conditions around 40 below zero Fahrenheit \u2014 may be less effective than intended.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELed by a team of University of Alaska Fairbanks and Georgia Tech researchers that includes \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/weber-dr-rodney\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERodney Weber\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, the researchers\u0027 latest findings are published in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/sciadv.ado4373\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EScience Advances\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the study, the team leveraged state-of-the-art thermodynamic tools used in global air quality models, with an aim to better understand how reducing the amount of primary sulfate in the atmosphere might affect sub-zero air quality conditions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe project stems from the 2022 \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gi.alaska.edu\/news\/dozens-experts-arrive-fairbanks-air-quality-research\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlaskan Layered Pollution and Chemical Analysis\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E project, or ALPACA, an international project funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and European sources. 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Both can affect this year\u0027s hurricane season.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E(This research also appeared in\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.deccanherald.com\/environment\/explained-what-is-an-atlantic-nina-how-la-ninas-smaller-cousin-could-affect-hurricane-season-3166920\u0022\u003E Deccan Herald\u003C\/a\u003E)\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe North Atlantic Ocean has had surface temperatures at or near record highs for months, but cooling along the equator in both the Atlantic and eastern Pacific may finally start to bring some relief, particularly for vulnerable coral reef ecosystems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProfessor and associate chair in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/home\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/bracco-dr-annalisa\u0022\u003EAnnalisa Bracco\u003C\/a\u003E, and Senior Academic Professional \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/handlos-dr-zachary\u0022\u003EZachary Handlos\u003C\/a\u003E, in an article published in the \u003Cem\u003EThe Conversation\u003C\/em\u003E, discuss their research in two climate phenomena with similar names: La Ni\u00f1a, which forms in the tropical Pacific, and the less well-known Atlantic Ni\u00f1a, both of which are responsible for the cooling effect. 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The students are participating in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/pacific.gatech.edu\/details\u0022\u003EPacific Study Abroad Program\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in Biology. They are spending the first six weeks in Dunedin, staying at Hayward College, and will spend a second six-week block in Australia. It is part of their spring semester program, and they will take classes in subjects such as physics, public policy and conservation biology. Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/michael-goodisman\u0022\u003EMichael Goodisman\u003C\/a\u003E said Georgia Tech brought over its own faculty lecturers. 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These robots could come in handy in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/searching-survivors-mexico-earthquake-snake-robots\u0022\u003Esearch-and-rescue\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;situations, where they could navigate collapsed buildings to find and assist survivors. Georgia Tech researchers Tianyu Wang, a robotics Ph.D. student, and Christopher Pierce, a postdoctoral scholar in the School of Physics, recently shared how they go about building these robots, drawing inspiration from creatures like worms and snakes. 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These robots could come in handy in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/searching-survivors-mexico-earthquake-snake-robots\u0022\u003Esearch-and-rescue\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;situations, where they could navigate collapsed buildings to find and assist survivors. Georgia Tech researchers Tianyu Wang, a robotics Ph.D. student, and Christopher Pierce, a postdoctoral scholar in the School of Physics, recently shared how they go about building these robots, drawing inspiration from creatures like worms and snakes. Wang and Pierce work with \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/daniel-goldman\u0022\u003EDaniel Goldman\u003C\/a\u003E, Dunn Family Professor in the School of Physics. This story has been republished in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/knowtechie.com\/limbless-robots-navigate-obstacles-future-search-rescue\/\u0022\u003EKnow Techie\u003C\/a\u003E,\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iotworldtoday.com\/robotics\/snake-like-robot-navigates-obstacle-course\u0022\u003EIOT World Today\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eand\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/goodmenproject.com\/featured-content\/we-designed-wormlike-limbless-robots-that-navigate-obstacle-courses-%E2%88%92-they-could-be-used-for-search-and-rescue-one-day\/\u0022\u003EThe Good Men Project\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"35575","created_gmt":"2024-02-26 19:17:19","changed_gmt":"2024-08-26 20:03:59","author":"adavidson38","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"The Conversation","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/we-designed-wormlike-limbless-robots-that-navigate-obstacle-courses-they-could-be-used-for-search-and-rescue-one-day-220828","dateline":{"date":"2024-02-14T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2024-02-14T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"138","name":"Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"181469","name":"bioinspired design"},{"id":"79061","name":"bioinspired technology"},{"id":"667","name":"robotics"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"676092":{"#nid":"676092","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Experts Name the Seven Baffling Behaviors Linked to a High IQ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs great minds throughout history have aptly demonstrated, high IQ\u0027s aren\u0027t always compatible with \u0027normality.\u0027 Several experts, including \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Psychology\u003C\/a\u003E Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/people\/eric-schumacher\u0022\u003EEric Schumacher\u003C\/a\u003E are quoted in an article about seven behaviors that are linked to having a higher IQ. Schumacher\u0027s study on daydreaming, completed in 2017 with Christine Godwin, is referenced. \u0022People with efficient brains may have too much brain capacity to stop their minds from wandering,\u0022 Schumacher says. \u0022Our findings remind me of the absent-minded professor \u2014 someone who\u0027s brilliant, but off in his or her own world, sometimes oblivious to their own surroundings, or school children who are too intellectually advanced for their classes. While it may take five minutes for their friends to learn something new, they figure it out in a minute, then check out and start daydreaming,\u0022 he adds.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs great minds throughout history have aptly demonstrated, high IQ\u0027s aren\u0027t always compatible with \u0027normality.\u0027 Several experts, including \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Psychology\u003C\/a\u003E Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/people\/eric-schumacher\u0022\u003EEric Schumacher\u003C\/a\u003E are quoted in an article about seven behaviors that are linked to having a higher IQ. Schumacher\u0027s study on daydreaming, completed in 2017 with Christine Godwin, is referenced. \u0022People with efficient brains may have too much brain capacity to stop their minds from wandering,\u0022 Schumacher says. \u0022Our findings remind me of the absent-minded professor \u2014 someone who\u0027s brilliant, but off in his or her own world, sometimes oblivious to their own surroundings, or school children who are too intellectually advanced for their classes. While it may take five minutes for their friends to learn something new, they figure it out in a minute, then check out and start daydreaming,\u0022 he adds.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36609","created_gmt":"2024-08-19 19:39:59","changed_gmt":"2024-08-20 13:35:37","author":"acook304","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"The Mirror","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/weird-news\/experts-name-seven-baffling-behaviours-33471967","dateline":{"date":"2024-08-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-08-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"443951","name":"School of Psychology"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"15561","name":"educational psychology"},{"id":"176018","name":"Daydreaming"},{"id":"174615","name":"Activity-Based Intelligence"},{"id":"167710","name":"School of Psychology"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"676086":{"#nid":"676086","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Are the North Georgia Earthquakes Impacted by the Water Level at Lake Lanier?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn June 2024, several earthquakes shook the northeast corner of Metro Atlanta, including the Buford and Lake Lanier regions of Gwinnett and Hall counties. In a radio interview with 95.5 WSB, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/home\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/peng-dr-zhigang\u0022\u003EZhigang Peng\u003C\/a\u003E discusses a theory regarding water levels and earthquakes. \u0022It turns out a reservoir is well known to cause earthquakes,\u0022 Peng says. \u0022Now, probably not at Lake Lanier, I have not heard anything related to this reservoir -- but looking at the broader regions, we have quite a few reservoirs in Georgia and the southern regions. Some of them are known to trigger or cause earthquakes.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.wsbradio.com\/weather\/are-north-georgia-earthquakes-impacted-by-water-level-lake-lanier\/XEYZWSXRLJE7NIVZYRZHPBEZI4\/\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/bit.ly\/3yAzasN\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn June 2024, several earthquakes shook the northeast corner of Metro Atlanta, including the Buford and Lake Lanier regions of Gwinnett and Hall counties. In a radio interview with 95.5 WSB, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/home\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/peng-dr-zhigang\u0022\u003EZhigang Peng\u003C\/a\u003E discusses a theory regarding water levels and earthquakes. \u0022It turns out a reservoir is well known to cause earthquakes,\u0022 Peng says. \u0022Now, probably not at Lake Lanier, I have not heard anything related to this reservoir -- but looking at the broader regions, we have quite a few reservoirs in Georgia and the southern regions. Some of them are known to trigger or cause earthquakes.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.wsbradio.com\/weather\/are-north-georgia-earthquakes-impacted-by-water-level-lake-lanier\/XEYZWSXRLJE7NIVZYRZHPBEZI4\/\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/bit.ly\/3yAzasN\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36609","created_gmt":"2024-08-19 19:10:01","changed_gmt":"2024-08-20 13:34:47","author":"acook304","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"WSB","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.wsbradio.com\/weather\/are-north-georgia-earthquakes-impacted-by-water-level-lake-lanier\/XEYZWSXRLJE7NIVZYRZHPBEZI4\/","dateline":{"date":"2024-08-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-08-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"175911","name":"geosciences"},{"id":"12120","name":"earthquakes"},{"id":"186354","name":"water level"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"675927":{"#nid":"675927","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Chemists Develop New Sustainable Reaction for Creating Unique Molecular Building Blocks","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAn \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-08-chemists-sustainable-reaction-unique-molecular.html\u0022\u003Earticle\u003C\/a\u003E published in \u003Cem\u003EPhys.org \u003C\/em\u003Ereveals a new sustainable reaction for creating unique molecular building blocks. According to the published study, researchers from Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gutekunstlab.com\/\u0022\u003EGutekunst Lab\u003C\/a\u003E collaborated with Scripps Research and the University of Pittsburg to test whether newly invented nickel-catalyzed chemical reactions designed to build a diverse array of small molecule monomers could be scaled up to create unique polymers for drug delivery, energy storage, microelectronics, and more.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAn \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-08-chemists-sustainable-reaction-unique-molecular.html\u0022\u003Earticle\u003C\/a\u003E published in \u003Cem\u003EPhys.org \u003C\/em\u003Ereveals a new sustainable reaction for creating unique molecular building blocks. According to the published study, researchers from Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gutekunstlab.com\/\u0022\u003EGutekunst Lab\u003C\/a\u003E collaborated with Scripps Research and the University of Pittsburg to test whether newly invented nickel-catalyzed chemical reactions designed to build a diverse array of small molecule monomers could be scaled up to create unique polymers for drug delivery, energy storage, microelectronics, and more.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36607","created_gmt":"2024-08-12 20:09:57","changed_gmt":"2024-08-13 19:11:20","author":"ls67","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Phys.org","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-08-chemists-sustainable-reaction-unique-molecular.html","dateline":{"date":"2024-08-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-08-08T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"85951","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"}],"categories":[{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3346","name":"drug delivery"},{"id":"4216","name":"polymers"},{"id":"10795","name":"chemical reaction"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"675291":{"#nid":"675291","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Warm Water Seeping Under Antarctic Ice Sheets May Accelerate Melting","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAn \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2436841-warm-water-seeping-under-antarctic-ice-sheets-may-accelerate-melting\/\u0022\u003Earticle\u003C\/a\u003E published in \u003Cem\u003ENewScientist\u003C\/em\u003E reveals that Antarctica\u2019s melting ice sheets may retreat faster than previously thought. Scientists from the British Antarctic Survey and the University of Oxford\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Ediscovered that\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EAntarctica\u2019s melting ice sheets may retreat more quickly as warm seawater intrudes underneath them, leading to more melting and faster sea level rise.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir findings are built off a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/tc.copernicus.org\/articles\/16\/451\/2022\/\u0022\u003Emodel\u003C\/a\u003E developed by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/robel-dr-alexander\u0022\u003EAlexander Robel\u003C\/a\u003E and other researchers. Robel\u2019s model found extensive intrusions could more than double the amount of ice loss from an ice sheet by adding heat from below and lubricating the flow of ice along the bedrock. \u201cThat positive feedback can cause there to be much more intrusion than we thought possible,\u201d says Robel.\u0026nbsp;\u201cWhether that will be a tipping point that will lead to unrestrained incursion of seawater under the ice sheet \u2013 that\u2019s probably a stretch.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAn \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2436841-warm-water-seeping-under-antarctic-ice-sheets-may-accelerate-melting\/\u0022\u003Earticle\u003C\/a\u003E published in \u003Cem\u003ENewScientist\u003C\/em\u003E reveals that Antarctica\u2019s melting ice sheets may retreat faster than previously thought. Scientists from the British Antarctic Survey and the University of Oxford\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Ediscovered that\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EAntarctica\u2019s melting ice sheets may retreat more quickly as warm seawater intrudes underneath them, leading to more melting and faster sea level rise.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir findings are built off a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/tc.copernicus.org\/articles\/16\/451\/2022\/\u0022\u003Emodel\u003C\/a\u003E developed by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/robel-dr-alexander\u0022\u003EAlexander Robel\u003C\/a\u003E and other researchers. Robel\u2019s model found extensive intrusions could more than double the amount of ice loss from an ice sheet by adding heat from below and lubricating the flow of ice along the bedrock. \u201cThat positive feedback can cause there to be much more intrusion than we thought possible,\u201d says Robel.\u0026nbsp;\u201cWhether that will be a tipping point that will lead to unrestrained incursion of seawater under the ice sheet \u2013 that\u2019s probably a stretch.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36607","created_gmt":"2024-07-01 19:34:52","changed_gmt":"2024-08-13 18:54:28","author":"ls67","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"NewScientist","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2436841-warm-water-seeping-under-antarctic-ice-sheets-may-accelerate-melting\/","dateline":{"date":"2024-06-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-06-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"791","name":"Global Warming"},{"id":"176758","name":"ice sheets"},{"id":"831","name":"climate change"},{"id":"10399","name":"Antarctic"},{"id":"173050","name":"climate science"},{"id":"183637","name":"global change"},{"id":"193840","name":"(183637)"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"675771":{"#nid":"675771","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"How can there be ice on the Moon?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENo one knows yet how much water the Moon has or how deep it goes. But one thing is certain: There\u2019s much more than scientists first thought. In a series created for children of all ages called, \u0022Curious Kids,\u0022 and published in \u003Cem\u003EThe Conversation\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E Regents\u0027 Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/thomas-orlando\u0022\u003EThomas Orlando\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/home\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/rivera-hernandez-dr-frances\u0022\u003EFrances Rivera-Hernandez\u003C\/a\u003E, and School of Aerospace Engineering\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003EProfessor Glenn Lightsey discuss how scientists confirmed there is water on the moon and the careful steps we must take to access it.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENo one knows yet how much water the Moon has or how deep it goes. But one thing is certain: There\u2019s much more than scientists first thought. In a series created for children of all ages called, \u0022Curious Kids,\u0022 and published in \u003Cem\u003EThe Conversation\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E Regents\u0027 Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/thomas-orlando\u0022\u003EThomas Orlando\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/home\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/rivera-hernandez-dr-frances\u0022\u003EFrances Rivera-Hernandez\u003C\/a\u003E, and School of Aerospace Engineering\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003EProfessor Glenn Lightsey discuss how scientists confirmed there is water on the moon and the careful steps we must take to access it.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis article also appeared in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.discovermagazine.com\/the-sciences\/how-can-there-be-ice-on-the-moon\u0022\u003EDiscover\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36609","created_gmt":"2024-08-05 17:43:58","changed_gmt":"2024-08-12 14:04:59","author":"acook304","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"The Conversation ","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-can-there-be-ice-on-the-moon-225979","dateline":{"date":"2024-08-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-08-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"85951","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166928","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"191649","name":"Earth\u0027s moon"},{"id":"186189","name":"water on the moon"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"675773":{"#nid":"675773","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Rising land under Antarctica could slow sea level rise","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ERising land beneath Antarctica\u2019s ice sheet could slow ice loss and reduce sea-level rise in coming centuries. However, if emissions continue to rise, the effect could raise sea levels even more than the melting ice alone.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EAssociate Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/robel-dr-alexander\u0022\u003EAlexander Robel\u003C\/a\u003E with the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/home\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E comments on a study recently published in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EScienceAdvances\u003C\/em\u003E that models the relationship between melting ice and rebounding land under different emission scenarios. He says the scenario where rebounding land increases sea level rise is based on worst-case assumptions about emissions as well as the rate at which the ice sheet retreats.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ERising land beneath Antarctica\u2019s ice sheet could slow ice loss and reduce sea-level rise in coming centuries. However, if emissions continue to rise, the effect could raise sea levels even more than the melting ice alone.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EAssociate Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/robel-dr-alexander\u0022\u003EAlexander Robel\u003C\/a\u003E with the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/home\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E comments on a study recently published in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EScienceAdvances\u003C\/em\u003E that models the relationship between melting ice and rebounding land under different emission scenarios. 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They detected high-energy neutrinos in pristine ice deep below Antarctica\u0027s surface, then traced their source back to locations in the Milky Way - the first time these particles have been observed arising from our galaxy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe neutrinos were detected over a span of a decade at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at a U.S. scientific research station at the South Pole, using more than 5,000 sensors covering an area the size of a small mountain.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/ignacio-taboada\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIgnacio Taboada\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is the spokesperson for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and provides a brief commentary on this new research:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This observation is ground-breaking. 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They detected high-energy neutrinos in pristine ice deep below Antarctica\u0027s surface, then traced their source back to locations in the Milky Way - the first time these particles have been observed arising from our galaxy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe neutrinos were detected over a span of a decade at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at a U.S. scientific research station at the South Pole, using more than 5,000 sensors covering an area the size of a small mountain.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/ignacio-taboada\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIgnacio Taboada\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is the spokesperson for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and provides a brief commentary on this new research:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This observation is ground-breaking. 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This innovation could transform AI systems, making them more reliable and accurate. In their\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41562-024-01914-8\u0022\u003Estudy\u003C\/a\u003E, published in \u003Cem\u003ENature Human Behaviour,\u003C\/em\u003E researchers from Rahnev\u2019s lab, introduced RTNet, a neural network designed to match human decision-making patterns.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E(This research also appeared in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/thedebrief.org\/artificial-intelligence-is-learning-to-think-more-like-humans-new-research-suggests\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Debrief\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA team of Georgia Tech researchers from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/rahnevlab.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Elab\u003C\/a\u003E of Associate Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/people\/dobromir-rahnev\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDobromir Rahnev\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Psychology\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E has made a groundbreaking advancement in artificial intelligence by developing a neural network that emulates human decision-making. This innovation could transform AI systems, making them more reliable and accurate. In their\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41562-024-01914-8\u0022\u003Estudy\u003C\/a\u003E, published in \u003Cem\u003ENature Human Behaviour,\u003C\/em\u003E researchers from Rahnev\u2019s lab, introduced RTNet, a neural network designed to match human decision-making patterns.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E(This research also appeared in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/thedebrief.org\/artificial-intelligence-is-learning-to-think-more-like-humans-new-research-suggests\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Debrief\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36607","created_gmt":"2024-07-30 14:10:23","changed_gmt":"2024-08-01 12:41:24","author":"ls67","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"The University Network","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/home\/future\/georgia-techs-new-neural-network-mimics-human-decision-making\/","dateline":{"date":"2024-07-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-07-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"443951","name":"School of Psychology"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"187812","name":"artificial intelligence (AI)"},{"id":"2556","name":"artificial intelligence"},{"id":"191138","name":"artificial neural networks"},{"id":"177339","name":"AI machine learning"},{"id":"167710","name":"School of Psychology"},{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"192863","name":"go-ai"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"675550":{"#nid":"675550","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"AI Learns To Think Like Humans: A Game-Changer in Machine Learning","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers developed a neural network, RTNet, that mimics human decision-making processes, including confidence and variability, improving its reliability and accuracy in tasks like digit recognition. Working in the lab of Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/people\/dobromir-rahnev\u0022\u003EDobromir Rahnev\u003C\/a\u003E in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Psychology\u003C\/a\u003E, researchers are training neural networks 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.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers developed a neural network, RTNet, that mimics human decision-making processes, including confidence and variability, improving its reliability and accuracy in tasks like digit recognition. Working in the lab of Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/people\/dobromir-rahnev\u0022\u003EDobromir Rahnev\u003C\/a\u003E in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Psychology\u003C\/a\u003E, researchers are training neural networks 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.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36609","created_gmt":"2024-07-22 16:56:07","changed_gmt":"2024-07-22 19:38:06","author":"acook304","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"SciTechDaily","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/ai-learns-to-think-like-humans-a-game-changer-in-machine-learning\/","dateline":{"date":"2024-07-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-07-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"443951","name":"School of Psychology"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"187812","name":"artificial intelligence (AI)"},{"id":"2556","name":"artificial intelligence"},{"id":"191138","name":"artificial neural networks"},{"id":"177339","name":"AI machine learning"},{"id":"167710","name":"School of Psychology"},{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"675480":{"#nid":"675480","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"To avoid sea level rise, some researchers want to build barriers around the world\u2019s most vulnerable glaciers","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOver the past few decades, earth scientists have grappled with the concept of solar geoengineering: cooling the rapidly warming planet by injecting particles high into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight, for example. Now, researchers are proposing a new way to battle the effects of climate change that could prove even more costly and controversial: glacial geoengineering, designed to slow sea level rise.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/news.uchicago.edu\/story\/scientists-call-major-initiative-study-whether-geoengineering-should-be-used-glaciers\u0022\u003Ewhite paper\u003C\/a\u003E, released on 11 July by glaciologists, calls for boosting research into daring plans that would protect vulnerable ice sheets by building flexible barriers around them or drilling deep into them to slow their slippage into the sea.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThese untested ideas are stirring up a backlash among glaciologists, some of whom view them not only as outlandishly expensive and logistically flawed but also as a distraction from the problem of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In an \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/avoid-sea-level-rise-some-researchers-want-build-barriers-around-world-s-most\u0022\u003Earticle\u003C\/a\u003E in \u003Cem\u003EScience\u003C\/em\u003E, scientists, including \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/expert\/alex-robel\u0022\u003EAlex Robel,\u003C\/a\u003E discuss the white paper and the distinction between supporting geoengineering and supporting its research. \u201cI think the reality is that most people who will end up engaging in geoengineering research will do so because it increases the likelihood that geoengineering will actually happen,\u201d says Robel.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOver the past few decades, earth scientists have grappled with the concept of solar geoengineering: cooling the rapidly warming planet by injecting particles high into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight, for example. Now, researchers are proposing a new way to battle the effects of climate change that could prove even more costly and controversial: glacial geoengineering, designed to slow sea level rise.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/news.uchicago.edu\/story\/scientists-call-major-initiative-study-whether-geoengineering-should-be-used-glaciers\u0022\u003Ewhite paper\u003C\/a\u003E, released on 11 July by glaciologists, calls for boosting research into daring plans that would protect vulnerable ice sheets by building flexible barriers around them or drilling deep into them to slow their slippage into the sea.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThese untested ideas are stirring up a backlash among glaciologists, some of whom view them not only as outlandishly expensive and logistically flawed but also as a distraction from the problem of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In an \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/avoid-sea-level-rise-some-researchers-want-build-barriers-around-world-s-most\u0022\u003Earticle\u003C\/a\u003E in \u003Cem\u003EScience\u003C\/em\u003E, scientists, including \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/expert\/alex-robel\u0022\u003EAlex Robel,\u003C\/a\u003E discuss the white paper and the distinction between supporting geoengineering and supporting its research. \u201cI think the reality is that most people who will end up engaging in geoengineering research will do so because it increases the likelihood that geoengineering will actually happen,\u201d says Robel.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36607","created_gmt":"2024-07-15 22:51:41","changed_gmt":"2024-07-17 18:54:20","author":"ls67","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Science","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/avoid-sea-level-rise-some-researchers-want-build-barriers-around-world-s-most","dateline":{"date":"2024-07-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-07-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"193854","name":"glaciologists"},{"id":"831","name":"climate change"},{"id":"183576","name":"solar geoengineering"},{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"192254","name":"cos-climate"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"675479":{"#nid":"675479","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Stimulus type shapes the topology of cellular functional networks in mouse visual cortex","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn the timescale of sensory processing, neuronal networks have relatively fixed anatomical connectivity, while functional interactions between neurons can vary depending on the ongoing activity of the neurons within the network. In a paper published in \u003Cem\u003ENature Communications\u003C\/em\u003E, a team of researchers, including \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/math.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Mathematics\u003C\/a\u003E Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/hannah-choi\u0022\u003EHannah Choi\u003C\/a\u003E, hypothesizes that different types of stimuli could lead those networks to display stimulus-dependent functional connectivity patterns. The team analyzed single-cell resolution electrophysiological data from the Allen Institute, with simultaneous recordings of stimulus-evoked activity from neurons across 6 regions of the mouse visual cortex. The work reveals unexpected stimulus-dependence regarding the way groups of neurons interact to process incoming sensory information.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn the timescale of sensory processing, neuronal networks have relatively fixed anatomical connectivity, while functional interactions between neurons can vary depending on the ongoing activity of the neurons within the network. In a paper published in \u003Cem\u003ENature Communications\u003C\/em\u003E, a team of researchers, including \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/math.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Mathematics\u003C\/a\u003E Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/hannah-choi\u0022\u003EHannah Choi\u003C\/a\u003E, hypothesizes that different types of stimuli could lead those networks to display stimulus-dependent functional connectivity patterns. The team analyzed single-cell resolution electrophysiological data from the Allen Institute, with simultaneous recordings of stimulus-evoked activity from neurons across 6 regions of the mouse visual cortex. The work reveals unexpected stimulus-dependence regarding the way groups of neurons interact to process incoming sensory information.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36607","created_gmt":"2024-07-15 22:23:40","changed_gmt":"2024-07-17 18:50:32","author":"ls67","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Nature Communications ","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-024-49704-0","dateline":{"date":"2024-07-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-07-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1279","name":"School of Mathematics"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"173878","name":"quantitative biosciences"},{"id":"193853","name":"neuronal networks"},{"id":"68411","name":"neurons"},{"id":"168854","name":"School of Mathematics"},{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"675478":{"#nid":"675478","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"The biophysical basis of bacterial colony growth","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGroundbreaking research is shedding new light on how biofilms grow \u2014 using physics and mathematical models. Biofilms grow everywhere \u2014 from plaque on teeth, to medical devices, to the open ocean. But until now, it\u2019s been difficult to study just what controls their growth. In a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41567-024-02572-3\u0022\u003Enew study\u003C\/a\u003E published in \u003Cem\u003ENature Physics\u003C\/em\u003E, researchers from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/yunkerlab.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EYunker Lab\u003C\/a\u003E in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E, including Lead Researcher \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/aawaz-pokhrel\u0022\u003EAawaz Pokhrel\u003C\/a\u003E and Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/peter-yunker\u0022\u003EPeter Yunker\u003C\/a\u003E, leveraged physics to show that a biofilm\u2019s geometry is the single most important factor in determining growth rate \u2014 more important than even the rate at which cells can reproduce. Since some research shows that 80% of infections in human bodies are caused by the bacteria in biofilms, understanding how colonies grow has important human health implications, potentially to help reduce their impact in medical settings or industrial processes. (This also appeared in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-07-geometry-life-physicists-biofilm-growth.html#google_vignette\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EPhys.org\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.dentalreview.news\/dentistry\/19-dental-health-hygiene\/11095-biophysics-of-biofilm\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDental Review News\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EGroundbreaking research is shedding new light on how biofilms grow \u2014 using physics and mathematical models. Biofilms grow everywhere \u2014 from plaque on teeth, to medical devices, to the open ocean. But until now, it\u2019s been difficult to study just what controls their growth. In a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41567-024-02572-3\u0022\u003Enew study\u003C\/a\u003E published in \u003Cem\u003ENature Physics\u003C\/em\u003E, researchers from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/yunkerlab.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EYunker Lab\u003C\/a\u003E in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E, including Lead Researcher \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/aawaz-pokhrel\u0022\u003EAawaz Pokhrel\u003C\/a\u003E and Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/peter-yunker\u0022\u003EPeter Yunker\u003C\/a\u003E, leveraged physics to show that a biofilm\u2019s geometry is the single most important factor in determining growth rate \u2014 more important than even the rate at which cells can reproduce. Since some research shows that 80% of infections in human bodies are caused by the bacteria in biofilms, understanding how colonies grow has important human health implications, potentially to help reduce their impact in medical settings or industrial processes. (This also appeared in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-07-geometry-life-physicists-biofilm-growth.html#google_vignette\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EPhys.org\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.dentalreview.news\/dentistry\/19-dental-health-hygiene\/11095-biophysics-of-biofilm\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDental Review News\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36607","created_gmt":"2024-07-15 21:35:45","changed_gmt":"2024-07-17 18:48:34","author":"ls67","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Nature Physics","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41567-024-02572-3","dateline":{"date":"2024-07-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-07-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"170021","name":"biofilms"},{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"170023","name":"biofilm"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"675401":{"#nid":"675401","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"How a dog-like robot is training for space exploration on Mount Hood","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA team of researchers, led by Georgia Tech alumna \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/feifei-qian-56465328\/\u0022\u003EFeifei Qian\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003Eand\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/rivera-hernandez-dr-frances\u0022\u003EFrances Rivera-Hern\u00e1ndez\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E, \u003C\/em\u003Econtinue to work on the LASSIE Project, which stands for Legged Autonomous Surface Science in Analogue Environments. They want to see just how well a four-legged robot could make it up Mount Hood\u2019s gravel and snow. \u201cIt\u2019s literally a robotic dog form,\u201d said Qian. \u201cIt can plow. It can basically dig a hole.\u201d She added, \u0022the information the robot sends back with each step could tell scientists whether it\u2019s good to build a structure in a certain spot on the moon or whether it\u2019d be good to excavate.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA team of researchers, led by Georgia Tech alumna \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/feifei-qian-56465328\/\u0022\u003EFeifei Qian\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003Eand\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/rivera-hernandez-dr-frances\u0022\u003EFrances Rivera-Hern\u00e1ndez\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E, \u003C\/em\u003Econtinue to work on the LASSIE Project, which stands for Legged Autonomous Surface Science in Analogue Environments. They want to see just how well a four-legged robot could make it up Mount Hood\u2019s gravel and snow. \u201cIt\u2019s literally a robotic dog form,\u201d said Qian. \u201cIt can plow. It can basically dig a hole.\u201d She added, \u0022the information the robot sends back with each step could tell scientists whether it\u2019s good to build a structure in a certain spot on the moon or whether it\u2019d be good to excavate.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36609","created_gmt":"2024-07-09 14:32:15","changed_gmt":"2024-07-10 15:48:46","author":"acook304","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Oregon Public Broadcasting","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.opb.org\/article\/2024\/07\/04\/dog-like-robot-space-exploration-mount-hood\/","dateline":{"date":"2024-07-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-07-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"408","name":"NASA"},{"id":"13169","name":"autonomous robots"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"675390":{"#nid":"675390","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Sustained increases in atmospheric oxygen and marine productivity in the Neoproterozoic and Palaeozoic eras","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA geologically rapid Neoproterozoic oxygenation event is commonly linked to the appearance of marine animal groups in the fossil record. However, there is still debate about what evidence from the sedimentary geochemical record\u2014if any\u2014provides strong support for a persistent shift in surface oxygen immediately preceding the rise of animals. In this article, a team of researchers, including \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E Postdoctoral Scholar \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/cole-devon\u0022\u003EDevon Cole\u003C\/a\u003E, combined approaches from statistical learning, biogeochemical modeling and ecophysiology to better constrain changes in global ocean biogeochemistry and marine animal habitats through the Neoproterozoic and Palaeozoic eras.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA geologically rapid Neoproterozoic oxygenation event is commonly linked to the appearance of marine animal groups in the fossil record. However, there is still debate about what evidence from the sedimentary geochemical record\u2014if any\u2014provides strong support for a persistent shift in surface oxygen immediately preceding the rise of animals. In this article, a team of researchers, including \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E Postdoctoral Scholar \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/cole-devon\u0022\u003EDevon Cole\u003C\/a\u003E, combined approaches from statistical learning, biogeochemical modeling and ecophysiology to better constrain changes in global ocean biogeochemistry and marine animal habitats through the Neoproterozoic and Palaeozoic eras.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36609","created_gmt":"2024-07-08 20:28:50","changed_gmt":"2024-07-10 14:46:07","author":"acook304","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Nature Geoscience ","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41561-024-01479-1","dateline":{"date":"2024-07-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-07-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"187824","name":"early Earth oxygenation"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"675392":{"#nid":"675392","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Observation of stacking engineered magnetic phase transitions within moir\u00e9 supercells of twisted van der Waals magnets","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERecent demonstrations of moir\u00e9 magnetism, featuring exotic phases with noncollinear spin order in the\u0026nbsp;twisted van der Waals (vdW) magnet chromium triiodide CrI3, have highlighted the potential of twist engineering of magnetic (vdW) materials. In this paper, researchers, including \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E assistant professors \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/hailong-wang\u0022\u003EHailong Wang\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/chunhui-du\u0022\u003EChunhui Du\u003C\/a\u003E, reported the observation of two distinct magnetic phase transitions with separate critical temperatures within a moir\u00e9 supercell of small-angle twisted double trilayer CrI3.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERecent demonstrations of moir\u00e9 magnetism, featuring exotic phases with noncollinear spin order in the\u0026nbsp;twisted van der Waals (vdW) magnet chromium triiodide CrI3, have highlighted the potential of twist engineering of magnetic (vdW) materials. In this paper, researchers, including \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E assistant professors \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/hailong-wang\u0022\u003EHailong Wang\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/chunhui-du\u0022\u003EChunhui Du\u003C\/a\u003E, reported the observation of two distinct magnetic phase transitions with separate critical temperatures within a moir\u00e9 supercell of small-angle twisted double trilayer CrI3.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36609","created_gmt":"2024-07-08 22:05:05","changed_gmt":"2024-07-10 14:42:33","author":"acook304","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Nature Communications ","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-024-49942-2","dateline":{"date":"2024-07-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-07-08T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"9244","name":"moire"},{"id":"192658","name":"supercells"},{"id":"189932","name":"magnets"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"675241":{"#nid":"675241","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"The world\u2019s fourth mass coral bleaching is underway, but well-connected reefs may have a better chance to recover","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWith global ocean heat at record levels, scientists have confirmed that a global coral bleaching event is underway. In an \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-worlds-fourth-mass-coral-bleaching-is-underway-but-well-connected-reefs-may-have-a-better-chance-to-recover-230755?utm_medium=email\u0026amp;utm_campaign=Daily%20Newsletter%20%20June%2026%202024%20-%203011930680\u0026amp;utm_content=Daily%20Newsletter%20%20June%2026%202024%20-%203011930680+CID_281aea4eb45441278b03759e458e5f4d\u0026amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_us\u0026amp;utm_term=The%20worlds%20fourth%20mass%20coral%20bleaching%20is%20underway%20but%20well-connected%20reefs%20may%20have%20a%20better%20chance%20to%20recover\u0022\u003Earticle\u003C\/a\u003E published in \u003Cem\u003EThe Conversation\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/bracco-dr-annalisa\u0022\u003EAnnalisa Bracco\u003C\/a\u003E discusses how research on reef connectivity and resilience may open new avenues for helping corals survive.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWith global ocean heat at record levels, scientists have confirmed that a global coral bleaching event is underway. In an \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-worlds-fourth-mass-coral-bleaching-is-underway-but-well-connected-reefs-may-have-a-better-chance-to-recover-230755?utm_medium=email\u0026amp;utm_campaign=Daily%20Newsletter%20%20June%2026%202024%20-%203011930680\u0026amp;utm_content=Daily%20Newsletter%20%20June%2026%202024%20-%203011930680+CID_281aea4eb45441278b03759e458e5f4d\u0026amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_us\u0026amp;utm_term=The%20worlds%20fourth%20mass%20coral%20bleaching%20is%20underway%20but%20well-connected%20reefs%20may%20have%20a%20better%20chance%20to%20recover\u0022\u003Earticle\u003C\/a\u003E published in \u003Cem\u003EThe Conversation\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/bracco-dr-annalisa\u0022\u003EAnnalisa Bracco\u003C\/a\u003E discusses how research on reef connectivity and resilience may open new avenues for helping corals survive.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36609","created_gmt":"2024-06-26 16:39:41","changed_gmt":"2024-06-28 14:01:18","author":"acook304","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"The Conversation ","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-worlds-fourth-mass-coral-bleaching-is-underway-but-well-connected-reefs-may-have-a-better-chance-to-recover-230755","dateline":{"date":"2024-06-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-06-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"42901","name":"Community"},{"id":"42911","name":"Education"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"169211","name":"coral bleaching"},{"id":"182542","name":"coral defenses"},{"id":"192254","name":"cos-climate"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"675207":{"#nid":"675207","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"\u2018Fantastic\u2019 Particle Could Be Most Energetic Neutrino Ever Detected","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAn observatory still under construction at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea has spotted what could be the most energetic neutrino ever detected. Such ultra-high-energy neutrinos \u2014 tiny subatomic particles that travel at nearly the speed of light \u2014 have been known to exist for only a decade or so, and are thought to be messengers from some of the Universe\u2019s most cataclysmic events, such as growth spurts of supermassive black holes in distant galaxies. \u201cIt would be really interesting to see where in the sky the neutrino originated,\u201d says \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/nepomuk-otte\u0022\u003ENepomuk Otte\u003C\/a\u003E, an associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E. Otte is leading a proposed project \u2014 with a prototype now being tested in Utah \u2014 that would search for Earth-skimming neutrinos by monitoring the atmosphere just above the horizon for flashes of light.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAn observatory still under construction at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea has spotted what could be the most energetic neutrino ever detected. Such ultra-high-energy neutrinos \u2014 tiny subatomic particles that travel at nearly the speed of light \u2014 have been known to exist for only a decade or so, and are thought to be messengers from some of the Universe\u2019s most cataclysmic events, such as growth spurts of supermassive black holes in distant galaxies. \u201cIt would be really interesting to see where in the sky the neutrino originated,\u201d says \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/nepomuk-otte\u0022\u003ENepomuk Otte\u003C\/a\u003E, an associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E. Otte is leading a proposed project \u2014 with a prototype now being tested in Utah \u2014 that would search for Earth-skimming neutrinos by monitoring the atmosphere just above the horizon for flashes of light.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36609","created_gmt":"2024-06-24 19:34:17","changed_gmt":"2024-06-26 16:55:29","author":"acook304","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Nature ","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-024-02074-5","dateline":{"date":"2024-06-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-06-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"193810","name":"physicist"},{"id":"30751","name":"neutrino"},{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"174099","name":"College of Physics"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"675204":{"#nid":"675204","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"How Knitting Could Transform Technology","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKnitting, the age-old craft of looping and stitching natural fibers into fabrics, is gaining renewed attention for its potential in advanced manufacturing. Beyond creating garments, knitted textiles hold promise for designing wearable electronics and soft robotics \u2013 structures that need to move and bend flexibly. A team of physicists from the Georgia Institute of Technology has taken the technical know-how of knitting and added a mathematical foundation to it. Led by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/elisabetta-matsumoto\u0022\u003EElisabetta Matsumoto\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/krishma-singal-41130882\/\u0022\u003EKrishma Singal\u003C\/a\u003E, a graduate researcher in Matsumoto\u2019s lab, the team used experiments and simulations to quantify and predict how knitted fabric responses can be programmed.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKnitting, the age-old craft of looping and stitching natural fibers into fabrics, is gaining renewed attention for its potential in advanced manufacturing. Beyond creating garments, knitted textiles hold promise for designing wearable electronics and soft robotics \u2013 structures that need to move and bend flexibly. A team of physicists from the Georgia Institute of Technology has taken the technical know-how of knitting and added a mathematical foundation to it. Led by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/elisabetta-matsumoto\u0022\u003EElisabetta Matsumoto\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/krishma-singal-41130882\/\u0022\u003EKrishma Singal\u003C\/a\u003E, a graduate researcher in Matsumoto\u2019s lab, the team used experiments and simulations to quantify and predict how knitted fabric responses can be programmed.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36609","created_gmt":"2024-06-24 19:27:07","changed_gmt":"2024-06-26 16:55:09","author":"acook304","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Earth.com","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.earth.com\/news\/how-knitting-could-transform-technology\/","dateline":{"date":"2024-06-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-06-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"146391","name":"knitting"},{"id":"192060","name":"physics of knitting"},{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"675200":{"#nid":"675200","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Kinesiologist Finds Unexpected Benefit to Wearing High Heels","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFrequently wearing high heels could help you walk more efficiently in flat shoes, according to a new \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/journals.physiology.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1152\/japplphysiol.00016.2024?journalCode=jappl\u0022\u003Estudy\u003C\/a\u003E published in \u003Cem\u003EThe Journal of Applied Physiology\u003C\/em\u003E. Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and Georgia Institute of Technology, including \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/greg-sawicki\u0022\u003EGregory S. Sawicki\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E and the School of Mechanical Engineering, found that donning stilettos could help strengthen the tendons in the ankles and calves, making the legs more powerful.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFrequently wearing high heels could help you walk more efficiently in flat shoes, according to a new \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/journals.physiology.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1152\/japplphysiol.00016.2024?journalCode=jappl\u0022\u003Estudy\u003C\/a\u003E published in \u003Cem\u003EThe Journal of Applied Physiology\u003C\/em\u003E. Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and Georgia Institute of Technology, including \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/greg-sawicki\u0022\u003EGregory S. Sawicki\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E and the School of Mechanical Engineering, found that donning stilettos could help strengthen the tendons in the ankles and calves, making the legs more powerful.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36609","created_gmt":"2024-06-24 19:13:57","changed_gmt":"2024-06-26 16:54:40","author":"acook304","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Newsweek","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/health\/other\/kinesiologist-finds-unexpected-benefit-to-wearing-high-heels\/ar-BB1lIZxQ?item=flightsprg-tipsubsc-v1a\/","dateline":{"date":"2024-06-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-06-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"193808","name":"Kinesiology"},{"id":"193809","name":"kinesthetics"},{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"675084":{"#nid":"675084","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Microscopic Defects In Ice Shape How Massive Glaciers Flow","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EAs they seep and calve into the sea, melting glaciers and ice sheets are raising global water levels at unprecedented rates. To predict and prepare for future sea-level rise, scientists need a better understanding of how fast glaciers melt and what influences their flow.\u0026nbsp; Now, a study by MIT scientists offers a new picture of glacier flow, based on microscopic deformation in the ice. The results show that a glacier\u2019s flow depends strongly on how microscopic defects move through the ice.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cThis study really shows the effect of microscale processes on macroscale behavior,\u201d says\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/meghana-ranganathan-00b39088\/\u0022\u003EMeghana Ranganathan\u003C\/a\u003E who led the study as a MIT graduate student and is now a NOAA Climate \u0026amp; Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cThese mechanisms happen at the scale of water molecules and ultimately can affect the stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.\u201d (This also appeared at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.miragenews.com\/research-ice-micro-defects-impact-massive-1246395\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMirage News\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-05-microscopic-defects-ice-massive-glaciers.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EPhys.org\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EAs they seep and calve into the sea, melting glaciers and ice sheets are raising global water levels at unprecedented rates. To predict and prepare for future sea-level rise, scientists need a better understanding of how fast glaciers melt and what influences their flow.\u0026nbsp; Now, a study by MIT scientists offers a new picture of glacier flow, based on microscopic deformation in the ice. The results show that a glacier\u2019s flow depends strongly on how microscopic defects move through the ice.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cThis study really shows the effect of microscale processes on macroscale behavior,\u201d says\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/meghana-ranganathan-00b39088\/\u0022\u003EMeghana Ranganathan\u003C\/a\u003E who led the study as a MIT graduate student and is now a NOAA Climate \u0026amp; Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cThese mechanisms happen at the scale of water molecules and ultimately can affect the stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.\u201d (This also appeared at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.miragenews.com\/research-ice-micro-defects-impact-massive-1246395\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMirage News\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-05-microscopic-defects-ice-massive-glaciers.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EPhys.org\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2024-06-11 19:05:05","changed_gmt":"2024-06-24 20:39:49","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Eurasia Review","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.eurasiareview.com\/04062024-microscopic-defects-in-ice-shape-how-massive-glaciers-flow\/","dateline":{"date":"2024-06-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-06-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"831","name":"climate change"},{"id":"191644","name":"glacier melt"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"675082":{"#nid":"675082","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Coral reef recovery could get a boost from an unlikely source: Sea cucumbers, the janitors of the seafloor","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESea cucumbers, scavengers of the seafloor that resemble the cylindrical vegetable, have been consumed as a delicacy in Asia for centuries. But in recent decades, they\u2019ve been severely overharvested to a point that they are now quite rare. New research that \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/mark-hay\u0022\u003EMark E. Hay\u003C\/a\u003E, Regents Chair and the Harry and Anna Teasley Chair in Environmental Biology, helped conduct suggests their repopulation \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-024-45730-0\u0022\u003Ecould play an important role in protecting and revitalizing\u003C\/a\u003E another type of endangered marine organism: corals. (This also appeared at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/statesville.com\/news\/nation-world\/science\/coral-reef-recovery-could-get-a-boost-from-an-unlikely-source-sea-cucumbers-the-janitors\/article_56d595aa-1921-52f2-92a3-36e0165cf6e4.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EStatesville Record and Landmark\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESea cucumbers, scavengers of the seafloor that resemble the cylindrical vegetable, have been consumed as a delicacy in Asia for centuries. But in recent decades, they\u2019ve been severely overharvested to a point that they are now quite rare. New research that \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/mark-hay\u0022\u003EMark E. Hay\u003C\/a\u003E, Regents Chair and the Harry and Anna Teasley Chair in Environmental Biology, helped conduct suggests their repopulation \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-024-45730-0\u0022\u003Ecould play an important role in protecting and revitalizing\u003C\/a\u003E another type of endangered marine organism: corals. (This also appeared at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/statesville.com\/news\/nation-world\/science\/coral-reef-recovery-could-get-a-boost-from-an-unlikely-source-sea-cucumbers-the-janitors\/article_56d595aa-1921-52f2-92a3-36e0165cf6e4.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EStatesville Record and Landmark\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2024-06-11 17:54:45","changed_gmt":"2024-06-24 20:39:29","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"The Conversation ","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/coral-reef-recovery-could-get-a-boost-from-an-unlikely-source-sea-cucumbers-the-janitors-of-the-seafloor-227212","dateline":{"date":"2024-06-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-06-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"193538","name":"sea cucumber"},{"id":"14760","name":"coral reef"},{"id":"187423","name":"go-bio"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"675124":{"#nid":"675124","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"New earthquake shakes Lake Lanier, continuing \u2018swarm\u2019 of seismic events","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Peach State is not typically a hotbed of seismic activity, but residents in pockets of North Georgia have been feeling some unexpected vibrations lately after the area has been jolted by five small earthquakes over the last 10 days.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia is located in the middle of the North American Plate, the vast tectonic plate that sits beneath almost all of North America, parts of the Caribbean, Greenland and much of the Atlantic Ocean. Earthquakes \u2014 particularly strong ones \u2014 are much more likely in places like California, which sit along major plate boundaries.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStill, small earthquakes are fairly common in Georgia, experts say. The state typically experiences between 10 and 20 earthquakes above magnitude 2.0 each year, said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/newman-dr-andrew\u0022\u003EAndy Newman\u003C\/a\u003E, professor and associate chair for Undergraduate Studies in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe three earthquakes at Lake Lanier\u2019s southern end represent a \u201cswarm\u201d of seismic activity, but scientists say such clusters are also common.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGenerally, if you have one earthquake, the best place to guess where the next earthquake is going to occur is right near the same location,\u201d Newman said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E(This also appeared at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/earthquakes-shaking-north-georgia-may-160000498.html?guccounter=1\u0026amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v\u0026amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAFlNHxLVgiK_Am0y9OtWBO5BNT0-uaIJUzx1oqS8uMs5PjTsVHQNtwHqbXeavRUrR9_HJlKzSTOfNy8BSdVtakqX6ButstiV37b9RGIWqCWLa7EmHTaStzLcQ9O7RnAlibAvUjVL9WPNv61h4qfb7Ktuum6S67qVILy6gEbEAPHW\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMacon Telegraph\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-06-earthquakes-north-georgia.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EPhys.org\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Peach State is not typically a hotbed of seismic activity, but residents in pockets of North Georgia have been feeling some unexpected vibrations lately after the area has been jolted by five small earthquakes over the last 10 days.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia is located in the middle of the North American Plate, the vast tectonic plate that sits beneath almost all of North America, parts of the Caribbean, Greenland and much of the Atlantic Ocean. Earthquakes \u2014 particularly strong ones \u2014 are much more likely in places like California, which sit along major plate boundaries.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStill, small earthquakes are fairly common in Georgia, experts say. The state typically experiences between 10 and 20 earthquakes above magnitude 2.0 each year, said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/newman-dr-andrew\u0022\u003EAndy Newman\u003C\/a\u003E, professor and associate chair for Undergraduate Studies in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe three earthquakes at Lake Lanier\u2019s southern end represent a \u201cswarm\u201d of seismic activity, but scientists say such clusters are also common.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGenerally, if you have one earthquake, the best place to guess where the next earthquake is going to occur is right near the same location,\u201d Newman said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E(This also appeared at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/earthquakes-shaking-north-georgia-may-160000498.html?guccounter=1\u0026amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v\u0026amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAFlNHxLVgiK_Am0y9OtWBO5BNT0-uaIJUzx1oqS8uMs5PjTsVHQNtwHqbXeavRUrR9_HJlKzSTOfNy8BSdVtakqX6ButstiV37b9RGIWqCWLa7EmHTaStzLcQ9O7RnAlibAvUjVL9WPNv61h4qfb7Ktuum6S67qVILy6gEbEAPHW\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMacon Telegraph\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-06-earthquakes-north-georgia.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EPhys.org\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2024-06-17 16:34:36","changed_gmt":"2024-06-18 16:53:41","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Atlanta Journal-Constitution ","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/atlanta-news\/small-earthquakes-have-been-shaking-north-georgia-heres-what-experts-say-is-behind-them\/TBJ5ATKCEVHVFJ67CVWNXZ6QHI\/","dateline":{"date":"2024-06-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-06-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"5770","name":"Earthquake"},{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"175593","name":"School  of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"192249","name":"cos-community"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"675132":{"#nid":"675132","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Influence of the spaceflight environment on macrophage lineages","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn a monograph published in \u003Cem\u003Enpj Microgravity\u003C\/em\u003E, researchers including \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E Ph.D. student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/iris-irby-5580a91b8\/\u0022\u003EIris Irby\u003C\/a\u003E, reviewed a growing body of experimental evidence indicating that monocytes and macrophages are altered by the spaceflight environment. These findings have implications for a wide range of physiological processes, including innate immunity, acquired immunity, host defense, and tissue remodeling.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn a monograph published in \u003Cem\u003Enpj Microgravity\u003C\/em\u003E, researchers including \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E Ph.D. student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/iris-irby-5580a91b8\/\u0022\u003EIris Irby\u003C\/a\u003E, reviewed a growing body of experimental evidence indicating that monocytes and macrophages are altered by the spaceflight environment. These findings have implications for a wide range of physiological processes, including innate immunity, acquired immunity, host defense, and tissue remodeling.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2024-06-17 22:14:14","changed_gmt":"2024-06-18 13:11:23","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"npj Microgravity","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41526-023-00293-0","dateline":{"date":"2024-06-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-06-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"45251","name":"macrophage"},{"id":"179900","name":"space environment"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"675131":{"#nid":"675131","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Mimicking an Elephant Trunk","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EElephants use their trunks for various tasks by exploiting a remarkable range of motions. A research team has now shown that much of this dexterity can be achieved using just a small number of muscle-like actuators. Using both theoretical calculations and experiments with a simple physical model of a trunk, the researchers found that their minimal model can reproduce the complex bending and torsional motions seen in real trunks. The results might be useful in the design of \u201csoft robotics\u201d devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hu.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EDavid Hu\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.biosci.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E and the School of Mechanical Engineering, calls the work \u201ca triumph of mathematics and an important step in reverse engineering the elephant trunk.\u201d He says that the important result is in \u201creducing the biological complexity to three degrees of freedom.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHu adds that \u201cthe big question left in my mind is this: If elephants can achieve all these 3D trunk positions with just three actuators, why does it have to have so many other muscles, and when are those used?\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EElephants use their trunks for various tasks by exploiting a remarkable range of motions. A research team has now shown that much of this dexterity can be achieved using just a small number of muscle-like actuators. Using both theoretical calculations and experiments with a simple physical model of a trunk, the researchers found that their minimal model can reproduce the complex bending and torsional motions seen in real trunks. The results might be useful in the design of \u201csoft robotics\u201d devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hu.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EDavid Hu\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.biosci.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E and the School of Mechanical Engineering, calls the work \u201ca triumph of mathematics and an important step in reverse engineering the elephant trunk.\u201d He says that the important result is in \u201creducing the biological complexity to three degrees of freedom.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHu adds that \u201cthe big question left in my mind is this: If elephants can achieve all these 3D trunk positions with just three actuators, why does it have to have so many other muscles, and when are those used?\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2024-06-17 21:57:41","changed_gmt":"2024-06-18 13:10:04","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Physics Magazine","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/physics.aps.org\/articles\/v17\/98","dateline":{"date":"2024-06-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-06-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"179490","name":"elephant trunk"},{"id":"192253","name":"cos-neuro"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"675126":{"#nid":"675126","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Is there life out there? NASA spacewalk would take fresh approach","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELearning more about how microorganisms operate in space has long been a critical part of avoiding contamination of all NASA experiments conducted in space and on the moon.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022NASA has a responsibility to ensure that science measurements made on Mars are not impacted by microbes brought from Earth. When humans go to Mars we will bring trillions of microbes with us, carried in our gut and on our skin,\u0022 said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/carr-dr-christopher\u0022\u003EChristopher Carr\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E and the School of Aerospace Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELearning more about how microorganisms operate in space has long been a critical part of avoiding contamination of all NASA experiments conducted in space and on the moon.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022NASA has a responsibility to ensure that science measurements made on Mars are not impacted by microbes brought from Earth. When humans go to Mars we will bring trillions of microbes with us, carried in our gut and on our skin,\u0022 said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/carr-dr-christopher\u0022\u003EChristopher Carr\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E and the School of Aerospace Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2024-06-17 16:50:00","changed_gmt":"2024-06-18 13:08:27","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"USA Today ","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2024\/06\/12\/nasa-astronauts-iss-microorganism-collection\/74069341007\/","dateline":{"date":"2024-06-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-06-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"175593","name":"School  of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"722","name":"Astrobiology"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"675125":{"#nid":"675125","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Scientists search for answers on earthquakes near Lake Lanier, place new sensors below ground","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA series of four earthquakes in a week around Lake Lanier have had residents wondering two questions -- why are they happening, and when will they stop?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn Friday, researchers from several Georgia universities began placing special earthquake sensors below ground. The seismic nodes will sit about one foot deep and will be placed in several locations surrounding the epicenters. The first seismic sensor was installed at Sugar Hill Elementary School in Gwinnett County. R. Scott Harris, University of Georgia adjunct researcher and STEM educator with Gwinnett County Public Schools, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/peng-dr-zhigang\u0022\u003EZhigang Peng\u003C\/a\u003E, dug through the Georgia Clay to reach the right depth and placed the sensor and battery system below ground, to be later retrieved later this year.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022There are probably many smaller ones that are happening right now as we speak, but it\u0027s always hard to tell when it\u0027s going to stop. That\u0027s the Million-Dollar question. That\u0027s what we\u0027re trying to figure out,\u0022 Dr. Peng explained.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA series of four earthquakes in a week around Lake Lanier have had residents wondering two questions -- why are they happening, and when will they stop?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn Friday, researchers from several Georgia universities began placing special earthquake sensors below ground. The seismic nodes will sit about one foot deep and will be placed in several locations surrounding the epicenters. The first seismic sensor was installed at Sugar Hill Elementary School in Gwinnett County. R. Scott Harris, University of Georgia adjunct researcher and STEM educator with Gwinnett County Public Schools, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/peng-dr-zhigang\u0022\u003EZhigang Peng\u003C\/a\u003E, dug through the Georgia Clay to reach the right depth and placed the sensor and battery system below ground, to be later retrieved later this year.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022There are probably many smaller ones that are happening right now as we speak, but it\u0027s always hard to tell when it\u0027s going to stop. That\u0027s the Million-Dollar question. That\u0027s what we\u0027re trying to figure out,\u0022 Dr. Peng explained.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2024-06-17 16:41:03","changed_gmt":"2024-06-18 13:07:15","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"11 Alive","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.11alive.com\/article\/tech\/science\/scientists-seek-answers-recent-lake-lanier-earthquakes-place-sensors-below-ground\/85-4380a219-0d55-4945-abe1-233a557b37e8","dateline":{"date":"2024-06-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-06-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"42901","name":"Community"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"192249","name":"cos-community"},{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"5770","name":"Earthquake"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"675001":{"#nid":"675001","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"The future of click chemistry","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIt has been almost a quarter-century since\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EM.G. Finn\u003C\/strong\u003E, K. Barry Sharpless, and Hartmuth C. Kolb published the paper that some refer to as\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/1521-3773(20010601)40:11%3C2004::AID-ANIE2004%3E3.0.CO%3B2-5\u0022\u003Ethe click manifesto\u003C\/a\u003E. In it, the researchers presented a vision for synthetic chemistry that prioritizes quick and easy access to functional molecules. Today, click reactions can be found nearly everywhere organic bonds come in handy. They even garnered Sharpless, Carolyn Bertozzi, and Morten Meldal the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2022. The authors of the manifesto envisioned a future in which the grand challenge of synthetic chemistry would be figuring out not how to make a molecule but what molecule to make and what it would be good for, says\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/mg-finn\u0022\u003EM.G. Finn\u003C\/a\u003E, professor and chair in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E. The key to achieving that future: reactions of exceptional speed, ease, selectivity, and reliability.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIt has been almost a quarter-century since\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EM.G. Finn\u003C\/strong\u003E, K. Barry Sharpless, and Hartmuth C. Kolb published the paper that some refer to as\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/1521-3773(20010601)40:11%3C2004::AID-ANIE2004%3E3.0.CO%3B2-5\u0022\u003Ethe click manifesto\u003C\/a\u003E. In it, the researchers presented a vision for synthetic chemistry that prioritizes quick and easy access to functional molecules. Today, click reactions can be found nearly everywhere organic bonds come in handy. They even garnered Sharpless, Carolyn Bertozzi, and Morten Meldal the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2022. The authors of the manifesto envisioned a future in which the grand challenge of synthetic chemistry would be figuring out not how to make a molecule but what molecule to make and what it would be good for, says\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/mg-finn\u0022\u003EM.G. Finn\u003C\/a\u003E, professor and chair in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E. The key to achieving that future: reactions of exceptional speed, ease, selectivity, and reliability.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2024-06-04 20:30:37","changed_gmt":"2024-06-05 14:39:29","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Chemical and Engineering News","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/cen.acs.org\/synthesis\/future-click-chemistry\/102\/i17","dateline":{"date":"2024-06-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-06-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"85951","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"}],"categories":[{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166928","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"},{"id":"167654","name":"synthetic chemistry"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"675000":{"#nid":"675000","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"A Crystal Ball for Evolution","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.adi8722\u0022\u003Enew paper\u003C\/a\u003E published in the journal \u003Cem\u003EScience\u003C\/em\u003E argues that traits that are highly variable and evolve quickly, over short time scales, are often the same ones that shape the direction of long-term evolution of new species. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.biosci.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.biosci.gatech.edu\/people\/james-stroud\u0022\u003EJames Stroud\u003C\/a\u003E, who was not involved in the research, says the study provides a fascinating insight: \u201cAs selection changes through time to chase new optima, the genetic variation of traits under selection may increase from this evolutionary back and forth,\u201d he says. \u201cThis additive genetic variance, termed evolvability, is a window into evolution\u2019s past.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.adi8722\u0022\u003Enew paper\u003C\/a\u003E published in the journal \u003Cem\u003EScience\u003C\/em\u003E argues that traits that are highly variable and evolve quickly, over short time scales, are often the same ones that shape the direction of long-term evolution of new species. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.biosci.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.biosci.gatech.edu\/people\/james-stroud\u0022\u003EJames Stroud\u003C\/a\u003E, who was not involved in the research, says the study provides a fascinating insight: \u201cAs selection changes through time to chase new optima, the genetic variation of traits under selection may increase from this evolutionary back and forth,\u201d he says. \u201cThis additive genetic variance, termed evolvability, is a window into evolution\u2019s past.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2024-06-04 19:58:21","changed_gmt":"2024-06-05 14:39:26","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Nautilus","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/nautil.us\/a-crystal-ball-for-evolution-619567\/","dateline":{"date":"2024-05-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-05-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"187423","name":"go-bio"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"674910":{"#nid":"674910","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Recent wetting trend over Taklamakan and Gobi Desert dominated by internal variability","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe Taklamakan and Gobi Desert (TGD) region has experienced a pronounced increase in summer precipitation, including high-impact extreme events, over recent decades. Despite identifying large-scale circulation changes as a key driver of the wetting trend, understanding the relative contributions of internal variability and external forcings remains limited. Researchers, including\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/deng-dr-yi\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYi Deng\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Eapproached this problem by using a hierarchy of numerical simulations, complemented by diverse statistical analysis tools. The results offer strong evidence that the atmospheric internal variations primarily drive this observed trend. Specifically, recent changes in the North Atlantic Oscillation have redirected the storm track, leading to increased extratropical storms entering TGD and subsequently more precipitation. A clustering analysis further demonstrates that these linkages predominantly operate at the synoptic scale, with larger contributions from large precipitation events.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E=The Taklamakan and Gobi Desert (TGD) region has experienced a pronounced increase in summer precipitation, including high-impact extreme events, over recent decades. Despite identifying large-scale circulation changes as a key driver of the wetting trend, understanding the relative contributions of internal variability and external forcings remains limited. Researchers, including\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/deng-dr-yi\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYi Deng\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Eapproached this problem by using a hierarchy of numerical simulations, complemented by diverse statistical analysis tools. The results offer strong evidence that the atmospheric internal variations primarily drive this observed trend. Specifically, recent changes in the North Atlantic Oscillation have redirected the storm track, leading to increased extratropical storms entering TGD and subsequently more precipitation. A clustering analysis further demonstrates that these linkages predominantly operate at the synoptic scale, with larger contributions from large precipitation events.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2024-05-28 16:05:12","changed_gmt":"2024-05-29 15:02:16","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Nature Communications ","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-024-48743-x","dateline":{"date":"2024-05-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-05-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"56531","name":"precipitation"},{"id":"192254","name":"cos-climate"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"674907":{"#nid":"674907","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"N-type molecular doping of a semicrystalline conjugated polymer through cation exchange","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EControl of electrical doping is indispensable in any semiconductor device, and both efficient hole and electron doping are required for many devices. In organic semiconductors, however, electron doping has been essentially more problematic compared to hole doping because in general organic semiconductors have low electron affinities and require dopants with low ionization potentials that are often air-sensitive. In a recent study, a team of researchers, including\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/stephen-barlow\u0022\u003EStephen Barlow\u003C\/a\u003E of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cope.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Organic Photonics and Electronics\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;adapted an efficient molecular doping method, so-called ion-exchange doping, to dope electrons in a polymeric semiconductor.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EControl of electrical doping is indispensable in any semiconductor device, and both efficient hole and electron doping are required for many devices. In organic semiconductors, however, electron doping has been essentially more problematic compared to hole doping because in general organic semiconductors have low electron affinities and require dopants with low ionization potentials that are often air-sensitive. In a recent study, a team of researchers, including\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/stephen-barlow\u0022\u003EStephen Barlow\u003C\/a\u003E of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cope.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Organic Photonics and Electronics\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;adapted an efficient molecular doping method, so-called ion-exchange doping, to dope electrons in a polymeric semiconductor.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2024-05-28 15:40:13","changed_gmt":"2024-05-29 14:26:32","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Communications Materials","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s43246-024-00507-2","dateline":{"date":"2024-05-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-05-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"85951","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"}],"categories":[{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166928","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"},{"id":"8458","name":"doping"},{"id":"193754","name":"ion-exchange doping"},{"id":"176314","name":"n-doping"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"674838":{"#nid":"674838","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"What is wind shear? An atmospheric scientist explains how it can tear down hurricanes","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EWeather forecasters talk about wind shear a lot during hurricane season, but what exactly is it?\u0026nbsp; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E Senior Academic Professional\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/handlos-dr-zachary\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EZachary Handlos\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E teaches meteorology in a part of the country that pays close attention to the Atlantic hurricane season. In this article, Handlos provides a quick look at wind shear, one of the key forces that can determine whether a storm will become a destructive hurricane. (This story also appeared at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/what-is-wind-shear-and-how-does-it-shape-hurricanes\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EScientific American\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/blog\/climate-change\/are-some-routes-more-prone-to-air-turbulence-will-climate-change-make-it-worse--96277\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDown to Earth\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.theweathernetwork.com\/en\/news\/science\/explainers\/what-is-wind-shear-how-it-can-tear-apart-a-hurricane-how-el-nino-la-nina-play-a-role\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Weather Network\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EWeather forecasters talk about wind shear a lot during hurricane season, but what exactly is it?\u0026nbsp; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E Senior Academic Professional\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/handlos-dr-zachary\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EZachary Handlos\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E teaches meteorology in a part of the country that pays close attention to the Atlantic hurricane season. In this article, Handlos provides a quick look at wind shear, one of the key forces that can determine whether a storm will become a destructive hurricane. (This story also appeared at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/what-is-wind-shear-and-how-does-it-shape-hurricanes\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EScientific American\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/blog\/climate-change\/are-some-routes-more-prone-to-air-turbulence-will-climate-change-make-it-worse--96277\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDown to Earth\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.theweathernetwork.com\/en\/news\/science\/explainers\/what-is-wind-shear-how-it-can-tear-apart-a-hurricane-how-el-nino-la-nina-play-a-role\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Weather Network\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2024-05-21 18:23:37","changed_gmt":"2024-05-29 13:36:19","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"The Conversation ","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/what-is-wind-shear-an-atmospheric-scientist-explains-how-it-can-tear-down-hurricanes-213527","dateline":{"date":"2024-05-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-05-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"189478","name":"Atlantic hurricane season"},{"id":"193738","name":"wind shear"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"674809":{"#nid":"674809","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Microbes at the Root of Coastal Plant Health Georgia Tech Study Sheds Light on Ecosystem Engineers","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn the vast stretches of Georgia\u0027s saltwater marshes, where the land whispers to the ocean, a silent yet profound battle is waged beneath the surface. It\u0027s a struggle for survival and resilience, where the unassuming cordgrass,\u003Cem\u003E Spartina alterniflora\u003C\/em\u003E, emerges as an ecological champion. But not without the help of its unseen allies-the intricate microbial communities thriving within its roots. Recent studies by Georgia Tech researchers, including \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E Professor and Associate Chair of Research \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/joel-kostka\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJoel Kostka\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, have unveiled the pivotal role these microbes play in not only sustaining the cordgrass but also in bolstering the health of the entire coastal ecosystem. These findings, published in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-024-47646-1\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ENature Communications\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, shed light on the complex interplay between plant and microbe, revealing a symbiotic relationship that is as delicate as it is powerful. (This also appeared at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.miragenews.com\/probing-microbes-crucial-role-in-coastal-plant-1239704\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMirage News\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and \u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-05-roots-resilience-vital-role-microbes.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPhys.org\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn the vast stretches of Georgia\u0027s saltwater marshes, where the land whispers to the ocean, a silent yet profound battle is waged beneath the surface. It\u0027s a struggle for survival and resilience, where the unassuming cordgrass,\u003Cem\u003E Spartina alterniflora\u003C\/em\u003E, emerges as an ecological champion. But not without the help of its unseen allies-the intricate microbial communities thriving within its roots. Recent studies by Georgia Tech researchers, including \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E Professor and Associate Chair of Research \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/joel-kostka\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJoel Kostka\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, have unveiled the pivotal role these microbes play in not only sustaining the cordgrass but also in bolstering the health of the entire coastal ecosystem. These findings, published in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-024-47646-1\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ENature Communications\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, shed light on the complex interplay between plant and microbe, revealing a symbiotic relationship that is as delicate as it is powerful. (This also appeared at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.miragenews.com\/probing-microbes-crucial-role-in-coastal-plant-1239704\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMirage News\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and \u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-05-roots-resilience-vital-role-microbes.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPhys.org\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2024-05-20 15:45:21","changed_gmt":"2024-05-28 15:18:27","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Nature World News","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.natureworldnews.com\/articles\/61692\/20240516\/microbes-root-coastal-plant-health-georgia-tech-study-sheds-light.htm","dateline":{"date":"2024-05-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-05-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"187423","name":"go-bio"},{"id":"193266","name":"cos-research"},{"id":"193679","name":"coastal salt marshes"},{"id":"176431","name":"marine ecosystems"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"674807":{"#nid":"674807","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Microbial adaptation to spaceflight is correlated with bacteriophage-encoded functions","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEvidence from the International Space Station suggests microbial populations are rapidly adapting to the spacecraft environment; however, the mechanism of this adaptation is not understood. Bacteriophages are prolific mediators of bacterial adaptation on Earth. In this study, researchers including \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E Ph.D. student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/iris-irby-5580a91b8\/\u0022\u003EIris Irby\u003C\/a\u003E, survey 245 genomes sequenced from bacterial strains isolated on the International Space Station for dormant (lysogenic) bacteriophages. The results correlate microbial adaptation in spaceflight to bacteriophage-encoded functions that may impact human health in spaceflight.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEvidence from the International Space Station suggests microbial populations are rapidly adapting to the spacecraft environment; however, the mechanism of this adaptation is not understood. Bacteriophages are prolific mediators of bacterial adaptation on Earth. In this study, researchers including \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E Ph.D. student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/iris-irby-5580a91b8\/\u0022\u003EIris Irby\u003C\/a\u003E, survey 245 genomes sequenced from bacterial strains isolated on the International Space Station for dormant (lysogenic) bacteriophages. The results correlate microbial adaptation in spaceflight to bacteriophage-encoded functions that may impact human health in spaceflight.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2024-05-20 15:28:52","changed_gmt":"2024-05-21 13:42:30","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Nature Communications ","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-023-42104-w","dateline":{"date":"2024-05-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-05-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"192025","name":"PhD research"},{"id":"192250","name":"cos-microbial"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"674746":{"#nid":"674746","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"How Brain Networks Sustain Attention","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EA new study \u2014 led by Dolly Seeburger, a graduate student in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Psychology\u003C\/a\u003E, alongside her advisor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/people\/eric-schumacher\u0022\u003EEric Schumacher\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the School of Psychology \u2014 investigates the brain\u2019s mechanisms behind deep focus. The research employs fMRI to explore low-frequency fluctuations in brain networks during focused and less-focused states. The team discovered that certain brain networks synchronize and desynchronize, affecting an individual\u2019s ability to maintain attention. This insight into the dynamic nature of brain activity could lead to better strategies for enhancing focus and attention in various cognitive tasks. (This story also appeared at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2024-04-neuroscience-brain-network-patterns-deep.html\u0022\u003EMedical Xpress\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EA new study \u2014 led by Dolly Seeburger, a graduate student in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Psychology\u003C\/a\u003E, alongside her advisor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/people\/eric-schumacher\u0022\u003EEric Schumacher\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the School of Psychology \u2014 investigates the brain\u2019s mechanisms behind deep focus. The research employs fMRI to explore low-frequency fluctuations in brain networks during focused and less-focused states. The team discovered that certain brain networks synchronize and desynchronize, affecting an individual\u2019s ability to maintain attention. This insight into the dynamic nature of brain activity could lead to better strategies for enhancing focus and attention in various cognitive tasks. (This story also appeared at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2024-04-neuroscience-brain-network-patterns-deep.html\u0022\u003EMedical Xpress\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2024-05-17 14:31:14","changed_gmt":"2024-05-17 14:41:20","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Neuroscience News","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/attention-network-brain-25915\/","dateline":{"date":"2024-04-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-04-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"443951","name":"School of Psychology"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"167710","name":"School of Psychology"},{"id":"172970","name":"go-neuro"},{"id":"192253","name":"cos-neuro"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"674744":{"#nid":"674744","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Building Your Life Story, One Memory at a Time","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Psychology\u003C\/a\u003E Assistant Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/people\/hsiao-wen-liao\u0022\u003EHsiao-Wen Liao\u003C\/a\u003E and colleagues (2021) decided to investigate the adaptive functions of the \u201creminiscence bump\u201d. The \u201cbump\u201d in this term refers to the finding that the memories older adults have of their early adult years are the clearest of all of those they have in their entire lives, including the recent past. It\u2019s possible, they argue, that there is value in massaging those events from your early adulthood as you think about your current life. Specifically, the more you feel that the events in your \u201cbump\u201d were ones you could control, the more likely it is that thinking about them brings you satisfaction.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Psychology\u003C\/a\u003E Assistant Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/people\/hsiao-wen-liao\u0022\u003EHsiao-Wen Liao\u003C\/a\u003E and colleagues (2021) decided to investigate the adaptive functions of the \u201creminiscence bump\u201d. The \u201cbump\u201d in this term refers to the finding that the memories older adults have of their early adult years are the clearest of all of those they have in their entire lives, including the recent past. It\u2019s possible, they argue, that there is value in massaging those events from your early adulthood as you think about your current life. Specifically, the more you feel that the events in your \u201cbump\u201d were ones you could control, the more likely it is that thinking about them brings you satisfaction.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2024-05-16 19:21:19","changed_gmt":"2024-05-17 13:32:20","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Psychology Today ","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/intl\/blog\/fulfillment-at-any-age\/202404\/building-your-life-story-one-memory-at-a-time","dateline":{"date":"2024-04-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-04-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"443951","name":"School of Psychology"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"167710","name":"School of Psychology"},{"id":"193730","name":"reminiscence bump"},{"id":"177906","name":"autobiographical memory"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"674743":{"#nid":"674743","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Will the Gates Foundation\u2019s preprint-centric policy help open access?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Bill \u0026amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the world\u2019s top biomedical research funders, will from next year require grant holders to make their research publicly available as preprints, articles that haven\u2019t yet been accepted by a journal or gone through peer review. The foundation also said it would stop paying for article-processing charges (APCs) \u2014 fees imposed by some journal publishers to make scientific articles freely available online for all readers, a system known as open access (OA).\u0026nbsp;In 2015, the Gates Foundation announced that it would require its grant recipients to make their research articles freely available at the time of publication by placing them in open repositories. It later\u0026nbsp;joined cOAlition S \u2014 a group of mainly European research funders and organizations supporting OA academic publishing \u2014 and endorsed\u0026nbsp;the group\u2019s Plan S, by which funders mandate that grant holders publish their work through an OA route. Ending support for APCs is a \u201cvery sensible plan\u201d given the unsustainable increase in such charges in recent years, says\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/lynn-kamerlin\u0022\u003ELynn Kamerlin\u003C\/a\u003E, a computational biophysicist and professor at the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cThe Gates Foundation plan is the open-access plan I would have liked to see when Plan S was announced.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Bill \u0026amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the world\u2019s top biomedical research funders, will from next year require grant holders to make their research publicly available as preprints, articles that haven\u2019t yet been accepted by a journal or gone through peer review. The foundation also said it would stop paying for article-processing charges (APCs) \u2014 fees imposed by some journal publishers to make scientific articles freely available online for all readers, a system known as open access (OA).\u0026nbsp;In 2015, the Gates Foundation announced that it would require its grant recipients to make their research articles freely available at the time of publication by placing them in open repositories. It later\u0026nbsp;joined cOAlition S \u2014 a group of mainly European research funders and organizations supporting OA academic publishing \u2014 and endorsed\u0026nbsp;the group\u2019s Plan S, by which funders mandate that grant holders publish their work through an OA route. Ending support for APCs is a \u201cvery sensible plan\u201d given the unsustainable increase in such charges in recent years, says\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/lynn-kamerlin\u0022\u003ELynn Kamerlin\u003C\/a\u003E, a computational biophysicist and professor at the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cThe Gates Foundation plan is the open-access plan I would have liked to see when Plan S was announced.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2024-05-16 19:11:03","changed_gmt":"2024-05-17 13:29:59","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Nature ","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-024-00996-8","dateline":{"date":"2024-04-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-04-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"85951","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166928","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"},{"id":"3232","name":"open access"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"674449":{"#nid":"674449","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Robots cannot outrun animals, but they\u0027re evolving faster","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERobotics engineers have worked for decades, using substantial funding, to create robots that can walk or run with the ease of animals. Despite these efforts, today\u2019s robots still cannot match the natural abilities of many animals in terms of endurance, agility, and robustness. Seeking to understand and quantify this disparity, an interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers from top research institutions, including Dunn Family Associate Professor at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/simon-sponberg\u0022\u003ESimon Sponberg\u003C\/a\u003E, conducted a comprehensive study to compare various aspects of robotic systems designed for running with their biological counterparts. (This also appeared at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/science\/article-800092\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Jerusalem Post\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2024-04-robots-outrun-animals.html\u0022\u003ETechXplore\u003C\/a\u003E, and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/evolution-vs-engineering-why-cant-robots-outrun-animals\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESciTechDaily\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERobotics engineers have worked for decades, using substantial funding, to create robots that can walk or run with the ease of animals. Despite these efforts, today\u2019s robots still cannot match the natural abilities of many animals in terms of endurance, agility, and robustness. Seeking to understand and quantify this disparity, an interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers from top research institutions, including Dunn Family Associate Professor at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/simon-sponberg\u0022\u003ESimon Sponberg\u003C\/a\u003E, conducted a comprehensive study to compare various aspects of robotic systems designed for running with their biological counterparts. (This also appeared at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/science\/article-800092\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Jerusalem Post\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2024-04-robots-outrun-animals.html\u0022\u003ETechXplore\u003C\/a\u003E, and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/evolution-vs-engineering-why-cant-robots-outrun-animals\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESciTechDaily\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2024-04-30 20:05:53","changed_gmt":"2024-05-16 18:45:20","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Earth.com","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.earth.com\/news\/robots-cannot-outrun-animals-but-theyre-evolving-faster\/","dateline":{"date":"2024-04-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-04-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"174082","name":"animal locomotion"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"674383":{"#nid":"674383","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"A powerful volcano is erupting. Here\u2019s what that could mean for weather and climate","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIt\u2019s possible for volcanoes to have a short-term impact on the climate \u2013 including global temperature cooling \u2013 due to the gases they inject high into the upper atmosphere. But Mount Ruang\u2019s influence on the climate will likely be minimal, according to \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/huey-dr-greg\u0022\u003EGreg Huey\u003C\/a\u003E, professor and chair of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E. And the day-to-day weather conditions near Mount Ruang in Indonesia \u2013 things like temperature, clouds and rain \u2013 probably won\u2019t be influenced by the volcano for long, Huey told CNN. \u201cThe ash itself is short-lived in the atmosphere because it\u2019s heavy, it\u2019s big and it tends to settle out quickly,\u201d Huey told CNN. It\u2019s the gases that are able to reach much higher in the atmosphere. (This story also appeared at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.wral.com\/story\/a-powerful-volcano-is-erupting-here-s-what-that-could-mean-for-weather-and-climate\/21395008\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EWRAL\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E \u003C\/em\u003Eand \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/climate-and-environment\/a-powerful-volcano-is-erupting-here-s-what-that-could-mean-for-weather-and-climate-1.6858539\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECTV News\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIt\u2019s possible for volcanoes to have a short-term impact on the climate \u2013 including global temperature cooling \u2013 due to the gases they inject high into the upper atmosphere. But Mount Ruang\u2019s influence on the climate will likely be minimal, according to \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/huey-dr-greg\u0022\u003EGreg Huey\u003C\/a\u003E, professor and chair of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E. And the day-to-day weather conditions near Mount Ruang in Indonesia \u2013 things like temperature, clouds and rain \u2013 probably won\u2019t be influenced by the volcano for long, Huey told CNN. \u201cThe ash itself is short-lived in the atmosphere because it\u2019s heavy, it\u2019s big and it tends to settle out quickly,\u201d Huey told CNN. It\u2019s the gases that are able to reach much higher in the atmosphere. (This story also appeared at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.wral.com\/story\/a-powerful-volcano-is-erupting-here-s-what-that-could-mean-for-weather-and-climate\/21395008\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EWRAL\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E \u003C\/em\u003Eand \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/climate-and-environment\/a-powerful-volcano-is-erupting-here-s-what-that-could-mean-for-weather-and-climate-1.6858539\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECTV News\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2024-04-25 18:11:54","changed_gmt":"2024-05-16 15:00:40","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"CNN","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2024\/04\/23\/climate\/indonesia-volcano-eruption-weather-impact\/index.html","dateline":{"date":"2024-04-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-04-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"42901","name":"Community"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"27001","name":"Volcano"},{"id":"192254","name":"cos-climate"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"674720":{"#nid":"674720","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Weakening of Ocean Currents Causes Ocean Nutrient Decline Due to Greenhouse Gas Emissions","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearchers at Georgia Tech analyzed the weakening of ocean currents and how it could affect ocean life. A report published by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.adi5543\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EScience\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Estudied the reaction of ocean currents to climate change, resulting in a potential decline in biological activity and nutrients in the North Atlantic. Using empirical data led by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/lynch-stieglitz-dr-jean\u0022\u003EJean Lynch-Stieglitz\u003C\/a\u003E, chair of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, the study observed the sediments at the Gulf Stream\u0027s origin. The region plays an important role in the North Atlantic\u0027s biological activity, particularly the ocean currents that could weaken due to greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. (This also appeared at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-05-weaker-ocean-currents-decline-nutrients.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EPhys.org\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E.)\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearchers at Georgia Tech analyzed the weakening of ocean currents and how it could affect ocean life. A report published by \u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.adi5543\u0022\u003EScience\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Estudied the reaction of ocean currents to climate change, resulting in a potential decline in biological activity and nutrients in the North Atlantic. Using empirical data led by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/lynch-stieglitz-dr-jean\u0022\u003EJean Lynch-Stieglitz\u003C\/a\u003E, chair of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, the study observed the sediments at the Gulf Stream\u0027s origin. The region plays an important role in the North Atlantic\u0027s biological activity, particularly the ocean currents that could weaken due to greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. (This also appeared at \u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-05-weaker-ocean-currents-decline-nutrients.html\u0022\u003EPhys.org\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2024-05-14 19:21:13","changed_gmt":"2024-05-16 14:54:39","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Nature World News","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.natureworldnews.com\/articles\/61651\/20240513\/weakening-ocean-currents-causes-nutrient-decline-due-greenhouse-gas-emissions.htm","dateline":{"date":"2024-05-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-05-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"189857","name":"North Atlantic Ocean currents"},{"id":"173097","name":"nutrient cycles"},{"id":"831","name":"climate change"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"674718":{"#nid":"674718","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"These 4 \u2018Dirty\u2019 Animals Actually Clean Up Quite Well","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWe all know too well how easily things get dirty. Dust gathers, and stains appear, seemingly out of nowhere. That\u2019s no exception for the Animal Kingdom, either. But for some of these critters, staying clean isn\u2019t just a matter of being comfortable. It\u2019s also a matter of survival. The question of how animals manage to stay squeaky clean is something that\u0026nbsp;researchers, including \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/david-hu\u0022\u003EDavid L. Hu\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchools of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E and Mechanical Engineering, dug into in 2015.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWe all know too well how easily things get dirty. Dust gathers, and stains appear, seemingly out of nowhere. That\u2019s no exception for the Animal Kingdom, either. But for some of these critters, staying clean isn\u2019t just a matter of being comfortable. It\u2019s also a matter of survival. The question of how animals manage to stay squeaky clean is something that\u0026nbsp;researchers, including \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/david-hu\u0022\u003EDavid L. Hu\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchools of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E and Mechanical Engineering, dug into in 2015.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2024-05-14 18:48:51","changed_gmt":"2024-05-16 14:52:32","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Discover Magazine","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.discovermagazine.com\/planet-earth\/these-4-dirty-animals-actually-clean-up-quite-well","dateline":{"date":"2024-05-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-05-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"4809","name":"clean"},{"id":"187423","name":"go-bio"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"674721":{"#nid":"674721","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Experts fear hurricane complacency in Savannah ahead of expected active season","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EForecasters are predicting a busy Atlantic hurricane season. The projections point to a potential weather double-whammy, said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/handlos-dr-zachary\u0022\u003EZachary Handlos\u003C\/a\u003E, senior academic professional at the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cThe\u0026nbsp;forecasts are expecting a higher frequency of storms this year, potentially aligned with record-breaking years like 2020 and 2005,\u201d he noted.\u0026nbsp;\u201cBut then on top of that there\u0027s a high chance of a few major hurricanes that could be thrown in the mix of all the named storms.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThirty named storms formed in 2020. Fifteen Atlantic cyclones became hurricanes in 2005 including Katrina, which caused nearly $200 billion in damage and led to more than 1,800 deaths. Both seasons were influenced by La Nin\u0303a patterns, which involve the cooling of tropical Pacific waters but lead to a reduction in vertical wind shear that acts as a brake against Atlantic hurricanes.\u0026nbsp;This year, warming Atlantic waters and the expected arrival of a La Nin\u0303a pattern are driving expectations for a hyperactive hurricane season. \u201cThe waters are already warmer than usual in the Atlantic, and warm water is a key ingredient for kind of starting off and forming hurricanes,\u201d \u003Cstrong\u003EHandlos\u003C\/strong\u003E said. \u201cIf you mix that trend on top of the possible La Nin\u0303a setup, it\u0027s just a potential recipe for disaster.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EForecasters are predicting a busy Atlantic hurricane season. The projections point to a potential weather double-whammy, said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/handlos-dr-zachary\u0022\u003EZachary Handlos\u003C\/a\u003E, senior academic professional at the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cThe\u0026nbsp;forecasts are expecting a higher frequency of storms this year, potentially aligned with record-breaking years like 2020 and 2005,\u201d he noted.\u0026nbsp;\u201cBut then on top of that there\u0027s a high chance of a few major hurricanes that could be thrown in the mix of all the named storms.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThirty named storms formed in 2020. Fifteen Atlantic cyclones became hurricanes in 2005 including Katrina, which caused nearly $200 billion in damage and led to more than 1,800 deaths. Both seasons were influenced by La Nin\u0303a patterns, which involve the cooling of tropical Pacific waters but lead to a reduction in vertical wind shear that acts as a brake against Atlantic hurricanes.\u0026nbsp;This year, warming Atlantic waters and the expected arrival of a La Nin\u0303a pattern are driving expectations for a hyperactive hurricane season. \u201cThe waters are already warmer than usual in the Atlantic, and warm water is a key ingredient for kind of starting off and forming hurricanes,\u201d \u003Cstrong\u003EHandlos\u003C\/strong\u003E said. \u201cIf you mix that trend on top of the possible La Nin\u0303a setup, it\u0027s just a potential recipe for disaster.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2024-05-14 19:35:33","changed_gmt":"2024-05-16 14:51:25","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Savannah Now","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.savannahnow.com\/story\/news\/environment\/2024\/05\/13\/explosive-hurricane-season-raises-concern-over-savannahs-readiness\/73648069007\/","dateline":{"date":"2024-05-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-05-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"189478","name":"Atlantic hurricane season"},{"id":"192254","name":"cos-climate"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"674561":{"#nid":"674561","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Temporal dynamics of the multi-omic response to endurance exercise training","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERegular exercise promotes whole-body health and prevents disease, but the underlying molecular mechanisms are incompletely understood. Here, the Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity Consortium \u2013 whose researchers include Regents\u0027 Professor and Vasser-Woolley Chair in Bioanalytical Chemistry \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/facundo-m-fernandez\u0022\u003EFacundo Fern\u00e1ndez\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u2013\u0026nbsp;profiled the temporal transcriptome, proteome, metabolome, lipidome, phosphoproteome, acetylproteome, ubiquitylproteome, epigenome and immunome in whole blood, plasma and 18 solid tissues in male and female \u003Cem\u003ERattus norvegicus\u003C\/em\u003Eover eight weeks of endurance exercise training. The data and analyses presented in the study serve as valuable resources for understanding and exploring the multi-tissue molecular effects of endurance training.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERegular exercise promotes whole-body health and prevents disease, but the underlying molecular mechanisms are incompletely understood. Here, the Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity Consortium \u2013 whose researchers include Regents\u0027 Professor and Vasser-Woolley Chair in Bioanalytical Chemistry \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/facundo-m-fernandez\u0022\u003EFacundo Fern\u00e1ndez\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u2013\u0026nbsp;profiled the temporal transcriptome, proteome, metabolome, lipidome, phosphoproteome, acetylproteome, ubiquitylproteome, epigenome and immunome in whole blood, plasma and 18 solid tissues in male and female \u003Cem\u003ERattus norvegicus\u003C\/em\u003Eover eight weeks of endurance exercise training. The data and analyses presented in the study serve as valuable resources for understanding and exploring the multi-tissue molecular effects of endurance training.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2024-05-07 14:15:38","changed_gmt":"2024-05-09 14:45:56","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Nature","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-023-06877-w","dateline":{"date":"2024-05-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-05-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"85951","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"}],"categories":[{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166928","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"},{"id":"173209","name":"MoTrPAC"},{"id":"193701","name":"endurance training"},{"id":"193702","name":"multi-tissue effects"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"674576":{"#nid":"674576","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"The Mystery of the Missing Multicellular Prokaryotes","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn a recent paper in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.2319840121\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Associate Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/will-ratcliff\u0022\u003EWilliam Ratcliff\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and Emma Bingham, student in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/qbios.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EInterdisciplinary Graduate Program in Quantitative Biosciences\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;put forward a brand new idea, which they tested in a computational model. Bingham and Ratcliff suggest that the way prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes respond to population size may make or break their chances of evolving multicellularity. It\u2019s a fascinating hypothesis, and if further work bears it out, it could fundamentally change how scientists conceive of this transition and challenge a key assumption they make about evolutionary forces.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn a recent paper in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.2319840121\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Associate Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/will-ratcliff\u0022\u003EWilliam Ratcliff\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and Emma Bingham, student in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/qbios.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EInterdisciplinary Graduate Program in Quantitative Biosciences\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;put forward a brand new idea, which they tested in a computational model. Bingham and Ratcliff suggest that the way prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes respond to population size may make or break their chances of evolving multicellularity. It\u2019s a fascinating hypothesis, and if further work bears it out, it could fundamentally change how scientists conceive of this transition and challenge a key assumption they make about evolutionary forces.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2024-05-07 21:16:40","changed_gmt":"2024-05-09 14:11:33","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Quanta Magazine ","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/the-mystery-of-the-missing-multicellular-prokaryotes-20240502\/","dateline":{"date":"2024-05-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-05-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"193706","name":"evolutionary"},{"id":"176339","name":"multicellularity"},{"id":"193708","name":"Prokaryote"},{"id":"2825","name":"eukaryote"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"674568":{"#nid":"674568","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"The Science of\u00a0\u20183 Body Problem\u2019: What\u2019s Fact and What\u2019s Fiction?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDespite being chock-full of hardcore science, \u003Cem\u003E3 Body Problem\u003C\/em\u003E, a television series released on 21 March by the streaming service Netflix, has been a hit with audiences. The story follows five young scientists who studied together at the University of Oxford, UK, as they grapple with mysterious deaths, particle-physics gone awry, and aliens called the San-Ti who have their sights set on Earth. But how much of the science in the sci-fi epic reflects reality, and how much is wishful thinking? To find out, \u003Cem\u003ENature\u003C\/em\u003E spoke to three real-world scientists, including \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry \u0026amp; Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/younan-xia\u0022\u003EYounan Xia\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDespite being chock-full of hardcore science, \u003Cem\u003E3 Body Problem\u003C\/em\u003E, a television series released on 21 March by the streaming service Netflix, has been a hit with audiences. The story follows five young scientists who studied together at the University of Oxford, UK, as they grapple with mysterious deaths, particle-physics gone awry, and aliens called the San-Ti who have their sights set on Earth. But how much of the science in the sci-fi epic reflects reality, and how much is wishful thinking? To find out, \u003Cem\u003ENature\u003C\/em\u003E spoke to three real-world scientists, including \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry \u0026amp; Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/younan-xia\u0022\u003EYounan Xia\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2024-05-07 16:52:37","changed_gmt":"2024-05-09 14:09:51","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Scientific American","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/the-science-of-3-body-problem-whats-fact-and-whats-fiction\/","dateline":{"date":"2024-05-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-05-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"85951","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"}],"categories":[{"id":"42901","name":"Community"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166928","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"},{"id":"193703","name":"3 Body Problem"},{"id":"167576","name":"sci-fi"},{"id":"193704","name":"TV show"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"674563":{"#nid":"674563","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Improved biomass burning emissions from 1750 to 2010 using ice core records and inverse modeling","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEstimating fire emissions prior to the satellite era is challenging because observations are limited, leading to large uncertainties in the calculated aerosol climate forcing following the preindustrial era. This challenge further limits the ability of climate models to accurately project future climate change. In this study, researchers reconstruct a gridded dataset of global biomass burning emissions from 1750 to 2010 using inverse analysis that leveraged a global array of 31 ice core records of black carbon deposition fluxes, two different historical emission inventories as a priori estimates, and emission-deposition sensitivities simulated by the atmospheric chemical transport model GEOS-Chem. The study\u2019s researchers include \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/zhang-bingqing\u0022\u003EBingqing Zhang\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/ito-dr-taka\u0022\u003ETakamitsu Ito\u003C\/a\u003E, and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/liu-dr-pengfei\u0022\u003EPengfei Liu\u003C\/a\u003E of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEstimating fire emissions prior to the satellite era is challenging because observations are limited, leading to large uncertainties in the calculated aerosol climate forcing following the preindustrial era. This challenge further limits the ability of climate models to accurately project future climate change. In this study, researchers reconstruct a gridded dataset of global biomass burning emissions from 1750 to 2010 using inverse analysis that leveraged a global array of 31 ice core records of black carbon deposition fluxes, two different historical emission inventories as a priori estimates, and emission-deposition sensitivities simulated by the atmospheric chemical transport model GEOS-Chem. The study\u2019s researchers include \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/zhang-bingqing\u0022\u003EBingqing Zhang\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/ito-dr-taka\u0022\u003ETakamitsu Ito\u003C\/a\u003E, and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/liu-dr-pengfei\u0022\u003EPengfei Liu\u003C\/a\u003E of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2024-05-07 14:26:36","changed_gmt":"2024-05-08 19:30:37","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Nature Communications ","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-024-47864-7","dateline":{"date":"2024-04-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-04-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"192254","name":"cos-climate"},{"id":"464","name":"emissions"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"674447":{"#nid":"674447","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Sulfur oxidation and reduction are coupled to nitrogen fixation in the roots of the salt marsh foundation plant Spartina alterniflora","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHeterotrophic activity, primarily driven by sulfate-reducing prokaryotes, has traditionally been linked to nitrogen fixation in the root zone of coastal marine plants, leaving the role of chemolithoautotrophy in this process unexplored. The researchers show that sulfur oxidation coupled to nitrogen fixation is a previously overlooked process providing nitrogen to coastal marine macrophytes. In their study, they recovered 239 metagenome-assembled genomes from a salt marsh dominated by the foundation plant \u003Cem\u003ESpartina alterniflora\u003C\/em\u003E, including diazotrophic sulfate-reducing and sulfur-oxidizing bacteria. Based on the findings, the researchers propose that the symbiosis between \u003Cem\u003ES. alterniflora\u003C\/em\u003E and sulfur-oxidizing bacteria is key to ecosystem functioning of coastal salt marshes. The study\u0027s co-authors include \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E researchers: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jose-luis-rolando-17074b17\/\u0022\u003EJose Louis Rolando\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/maxim-kolton\u0022\u003EMaxim Kolton\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/tianze-song-315062a1\/\u0022\u003ETianze Song\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/roth-conrad\u0022\u003ERoth Conrad\u003C\/a\u003E, Y. Liu, P. Pinamang, Professor and Associate Chair of Research \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/joel-kostka\u0022\u003EJoel Kostka\u003C\/a\u003E, and Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ce.gatech.edu\/directory\/person\/kostas-t-konstantinidis\u0022\u003EKostas Konstantinidis\u003C\/a\u003E. (Konstantinidis is also professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering.)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHeterotrophic activity, primarily driven by sulfate-reducing prokaryotes, has traditionally been linked to nitrogen fixation in the root zone of coastal marine plants, leaving the role of chemolithoautotrophy in this process unexplored. The researchers show that sulfur oxidation coupled to nitrogen fixation is a previously overlooked process providing nitrogen to coastal marine macrophytes. In their study, they recovered 239 metagenome-assembled genomes from a salt marsh dominated by the foundation plant \u003Cem\u003ESpartina alterniflora\u003C\/em\u003E, including diazotrophic sulfate-reducing and sulfur-oxidizing bacteria. Based on the findings, the researchers propose that the symbiosis between \u003Cem\u003ES. alterniflora\u003C\/em\u003E and sulfur-oxidizing bacteria is key to ecosystem functioning of coastal salt marshes. The study\u0027s co-authors include \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E researchers: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jose-luis-rolando-17074b17\/\u0022\u003EJose Louis Rolando\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/maxim-kolton\u0022\u003EMaxim Kolton\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/tianze-song-315062a1\/\u0022\u003ETianze Song\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/roth-conrad\u0022\u003ERoth Conrad\u003C\/a\u003E, Y. Liu, P. Pinamang, Professor and Associate Chair of Research \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/joel-kostka\u0022\u003EJoel Kostka\u003C\/a\u003E, and Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ce.gatech.edu\/directory\/person\/kostas-t-konstantinidis\u0022\u003EKostas Konstantinidis\u003C\/a\u003E. 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Seen as the building block of electronic devices, semiconductors are essential for communications, computing, healthcare, military systems, transportation and countless other applications. Semiconductors are typically made from silicon, but this material is reaching its limit in the face of increasingly faster computing and smaller electronic devices, according to the Georgia Tech research team who published their findings in \u003Cem\u003ENature\u003C\/em\u003E earlier this year. In a drive to find a viable alternative to silicon,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/walter-de-heer\u0022\u003EWalter de Heer\u003C\/a\u003E, Regents\u0027 Professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E, led a team of researchers based in Atlanta, Georgia and Tianjin, China to produce a graphene semiconductor that is compatible with microelectronics processing methods.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA group of researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have created the world\u2019s first functional semiconductor made from graphene, a development that could lead to advanced electronic devices and quantum computing applications. Seen as the building block of electronic devices, semiconductors are essential for communications, computing, healthcare, military systems, transportation and countless other applications. Semiconductors are typically made from silicon, but this material is reaching its limit in the face of increasingly faster computing and smaller electronic devices, according to the Georgia Tech research team who published their findings in \u003Cem\u003ENature\u003C\/em\u003E earlier this year. In a drive to find a viable alternative to silicon,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/walter-de-heer\u0022\u003EWalter de Heer\u003C\/a\u003E, Regents\u0027 Professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E, led a team of researchers based in Atlanta, Georgia and Tianjin, China to produce a graphene semiconductor that is compatible with microelectronics processing methods.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2024-04-30 20:25:01","changed_gmt":"2024-05-01 14:37:07","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Gas World","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.gasworld.com\/story\/georgia-tech-group-create-worlds-first-graphene-based-semiconductor\/2138021.article\/","dateline":{"date":"2024-04-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-04-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"429","name":"graphene"},{"id":"181733","name":"advanced semiconductor materials"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"674385":{"#nid":"674385","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Gene Network Interactions Shed Insight into Breast Cancer Onset and Development","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn a new study, published in \u003Cem\u003EGEN Biotechnology\u003C\/em\u003E titled, \u201cChanges in Gene Network Interactions in Breast Cancer Onset and Development,\u201d researchers from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/icrc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EIntegrated Cancer Research Center\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bioinformatics.gatech.edu\/zainab-arshad\u0022\u003EZainab Arshad\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/news\/postdoctoral-scientist-named-first-mccallum-early-career-fellow\u0022\u003EStephen N. Housley\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bioinformatics.gatech.edu\/kara-keun-lee\u0022\u003EKara Keun Lee\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/john-mcdonald\u0022\u003EJohn F. McDonald\u003C\/a\u003E) have identified differential gene-network changes characteristic of the three most prevalent molecular subtypes of breast cancer, Luminal A, Luminal B, and the highly metastatic Basal-like subtype. In contrast to previous studies, the authors expanded their analysis beyond genes differentially expressed between normal and cancer samples, as differential gene expression may not be a prerequisite for changes in gene-gene interactions.\u0026nbsp;(This story also appeared at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2024-04-gene-networks-aggressive-breast-cancer.html\u0022\u003EMedical Xpress\u003C\/a\u003E and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.miragenews.com\/novel-gene-networks-linked-to-aggressive-breast-1220891\/\u0022\u003EMirage News\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn a new study, published in \u003Cem\u003EGEN Biotechnology\u003C\/em\u003E titled, \u201cChanges in Gene Network Interactions in Breast Cancer Onset and Development,\u201d researchers from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/icrc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EIntegrated Cancer Research Center\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bioinformatics.gatech.edu\/zainab-arshad\u0022\u003EZainab Arshad\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/news\/postdoctoral-scientist-named-first-mccallum-early-career-fellow\u0022\u003EStephen N. Housley\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bioinformatics.gatech.edu\/kara-keun-lee\u0022\u003EKara Keun Lee\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/john-mcdonald\u0022\u003EJohn F. McDonald\u003C\/a\u003E) have identified differential gene-network changes characteristic of the three most prevalent molecular subtypes of breast cancer, Luminal A, Luminal B, and the highly metastatic Basal-like subtype. In contrast to previous studies, the authors expanded their analysis beyond genes differentially expressed between normal and cancer samples, as differential gene expression may not be a prerequisite for changes in gene-gene interactions.\u0026nbsp;(This story also appeared at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2024-04-gene-networks-aggressive-breast-cancer.html\u0022\u003EMedical Xpress\u003C\/a\u003E and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.miragenews.com\/novel-gene-networks-linked-to-aggressive-breast-1220891\/\u0022\u003EMirage News\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2024-04-25 18:46:27","changed_gmt":"2024-04-30 17:56:16","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"GEN - Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.genengnews.com\/topics\/gene-network-interactions-shed-insight-into-breast-cancer-onset-and-development\/","dateline":{"date":"2024-04-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-04-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"138","name":"Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics"},{"id":"140","name":"Cancer Research"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"191973","name":"Georgia Tech Integrated Cancer Research Center"},{"id":"187423","name":"go-bio"},{"id":"14455","name":"Breast Cancer"},{"id":"193668","name":"gene network interactions"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"674384":{"#nid":"674384","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Packs of dog-shaped robots could one day roam the moon \u2014 if they can find their footing on Earth first","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0022A dog is a man\u0027s best friend,\u0022 the old saying goes. Can the same soon be said of robot dogs? This summer, a group of scientists including alumna \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/news\/good-dog-lassie-spirit-learns-walk-moon\u0022\u003EFeifei Qian\u003C\/a\u003E (M.S. PHYS 2011, Ph.D. ECE 2015) and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;assistant professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/rivera-hernandez-dr-frances\u0022\u003EFrances Rivera-Hern\u00e1ndez\u003C\/a\u003E, will travel to Oregon\u0027s snow-capped Mt. Hood to train a dog-shaped robot named Spirit how to walk. The slopes of Mt. Hood are strewn with volcanic rocks and sprinkled with glaciers, a rugged environment that researchers think resembles the moon \u2014 which Spirit is being prepared to eventually explore. (This story also appeared at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/world-us-canada-68803774 \u0022\u003EBBC\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/video\/watch\/idRW450711042024RP1\/\u0022\u003EReuters\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sharjah24.ae\/en\/Articles\/2024\/04\/12\/Scientists-train-a-robot-to-walk-on-the-moon\u0022\u003ESharjah 24\u003C\/a\u003E. and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.tag24.com\/science\/space-travel\/nasa-sends-robot-dogs-to-the-moon-all-about-the-lassie-project-3158563\u0022\u003ETAG 24\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0022A dog is a man\u0027s best friend,\u0022 the old saying goes. Can the same soon be said of robot dogs? This summer, a group of scientists including alumna \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/news\/good-dog-lassie-spirit-learns-walk-moon\u0022\u003EFeifei Qian\u003C\/a\u003E (M.S. PHYS 2011, Ph.D. ECE 2015) and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;assistant professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/rivera-hernandez-dr-frances\u0022\u003EFrances Rivera-Hern\u00e1ndez\u003C\/a\u003E, will travel to Oregon\u0027s snow-capped Mt. Hood to train a dog-shaped robot named Spirit how to walk. The slopes of Mt. Hood are strewn with volcanic rocks and sprinkled with glaciers, a rugged environment that researchers think resembles the moon \u2014 which Spirit is being prepared to eventually explore. (This story also appeared at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/world-us-canada-68803774 \u0022\u003EBBC\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/video\/watch\/idRW450711042024RP1\/\u0022\u003EReuters\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sharjah24.ae\/en\/Articles\/2024\/04\/12\/Scientists-train-a-robot-to-walk-on-the-moon\u0022\u003ESharjah 24\u003C\/a\u003E. and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.tag24.com\/science\/space-travel\/nasa-sends-robot-dogs-to-the-moon-all-about-the-lassie-project-3158563\u0022\u003ETAG 24\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2024-04-25 18:29:37","changed_gmt":"2024-04-26 15:34:28","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Live Science","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/space\/the-moon\/packs-of-dog-shaped-robots-could-one-day-roam-the-moon-if-they-can-find-their-footing-on-earth-first","dateline":{"date":"2024-04-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-04-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"175593","name":"School  of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"193666","name":"LASSIE project"},{"id":"192252","name":"cos-planetary"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"674247":{"#nid":"674247","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Georgia Tech alum and astrophysics major get engaged during eclipse","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe stars aligned to give a Georgia Tech undergraduate student and an alum the moment of a lifetime during the recent solar eclipse. Corinne Hill is currently majoring in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ephysics with a concentration in astrophysics\u003C\/a\u003E. Nathaniel Greve graduated in 2023 with a degree in computer science. The couple met in 2021 when they both played alto saxes in the Georgia Tech marching band. After being unable to experience totality in 2017, Greve said the pair made plans to go to Wapakoneta, Ohio, for 2024\u2032s eclipse. Hill\u2019s friends in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/astronomyclub.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EAstronomy Club\u003C\/a\u003E went to the Ozarks to experience the eclipse, but Hill agreed to go to Ohio instead.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe stars aligned to give a Georgia Tech undergraduate student and an alum the moment of a lifetime during the recent solar eclipse. Corinne Hill is currently majoring in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ephysics with a concentration in astrophysics\u003C\/a\u003E. Nathaniel Greve graduated in 2023 with a degree in computer science. The couple met in 2021 when they both played alto saxes in the Georgia Tech marching band. After being unable to experience totality in 2017, Greve said the pair made plans to go to Wapakoneta, Ohio, for 2024\u2032s eclipse. Hill\u2019s friends in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/astronomyclub.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EAstronomy Club\u003C\/a\u003E went to the Ozarks to experience the eclipse, but Hill agreed to go to Ohio instead.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2024-04-17 15:58:29","changed_gmt":"2024-04-19 13:44:31","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Atlanta News First","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.atlantanewsfirst.com\/2024\/04\/11\/georgia-tech-alum-astrophysics-major-get-engaged-during-eclipse\/","dateline":{"date":"2024-04-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-04-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"42901","name":"Community"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"193643","name":"human-interest story"},{"id":"193616","name":"2024 solar eclipse"},{"id":"167141","name":"Student Life"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"674246":{"#nid":"674246","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"11 random things that make people think you\u2019re more intelligent, according to psychology","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearchers in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Psychology\u003C\/a\u003E co-authored a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0028393217302592?via%3Dihub\u0022\u003E2017 study \u003C\/a\u003Erelated to daydreaming. They found that daydreamers have unique connections in their brains, linking parts that handle deep thoughts and creativity.\u0026nbsp;That means your daydreaming is more than just moments lost in thought.\u0026nbsp;They\u2019re actual signs that you\u2019re sharper and more creative than you realize, especially when it comes to solving complex puzzles and coming up with new ideas.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearchers in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Psychology\u003C\/a\u003E co-authored a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0028393217302592?via%3Dihub\u0022\u003E2017 study \u003C\/a\u003Erelated to daydreaming. They found that daydreamers have unique connections in their brains, linking parts that handle deep thoughts and creativity.\u0026nbsp;That means your daydreaming is more than just moments lost in thought.\u0026nbsp;They\u2019re actual signs that you\u2019re sharper and more creative than you realize, especially when it comes to solving complex puzzles and coming up with new ideas.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2024-04-17 15:35:43","changed_gmt":"2024-04-18 19:30:23","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Hack Spirit","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/hackspirit.com\/random-things-that-make-people-think-youre-more-intelligent-according-to-psychology","dateline":{"date":"2024-04-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-04-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"443951","name":"School of Psychology"}],"categories":[{"id":"42901","name":"Community"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"167710","name":"School of Psychology"},{"id":"192253","name":"cos-neuro"},{"id":"176018","name":"Daydreaming"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"674182":{"#nid":"674182","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Georgians and people across US gear up to watch the 2024 solar eclipse","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECrowds in Georgia and people across the U.S. are gearing up to watch the 2024 Great North American Eclipse. The eclipse\u2019s path of totality\u0026nbsp;stretches across 13 states\u0026nbsp;in the U.S. Georgia is not included in the path of totality, but Atlanta is expected to experience the\u0026nbsp;effects of a partial eclipse. Show host Rose Scott speaks with Georgia-based astronomy expert \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/james-sowell\u0022\u003EJim Sowell\u003C\/a\u003E, a principal academic professional with the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E and an astronomy expert who serves as the director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/astronomy.gatech.edu\/Observatory.php\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Observatory\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECrowds in Georgia and people across the U.S. are gearing up to watch the 2024 Great North American Eclipse. The eclipse\u2019s path of totality\u0026nbsp;stretches across 13 states\u0026nbsp;in the U.S. Georgia is not included in the path of totality, but Atlanta is expected to experience the\u0026nbsp;effects of a partial eclipse. Show host Rose Scott speaks with Georgia-based astronomy expert \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/james-sowell\u0022\u003EJim Sowell\u003C\/a\u003E, a principal academic professional with the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E and an astronomy expert who serves as the director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/astronomy.gatech.edu\/Observatory.php\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Observatory\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2024-04-15 15:27:36","changed_gmt":"2024-04-17 15:43:14","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"WABE Closer Look with Rose Scott","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.wabe.org\/georgians-and-people-across-us-gear-up-to-watch-the-2024-solar-eclipse\/","dateline":{"date":"2024-04-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-04-08T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"42901","name":"Community"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"193616","name":"2024 solar eclipse"},{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"4188","name":"astronomy"},{"id":"192249","name":"cos-community"},{"id":"192252","name":"cos-planetary"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"674184":{"#nid":"674184","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Opinion: That\u2019s Not Physics","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn an opinion published in the May 2024 edition of \u003Cem\u003EAPSNews\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/andrew-zangwill\u0022\u003EAndrew Zangwill\u003C\/a\u003E reflects on the debate on the boundaries of physics and its impact on the discipline. Zangwill states \u201cfor more than a century, physicists have been drawing and redrawing the borders around the field, embracing and rejecting subfields along the way.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn an opinion published in the May 2024 edition of \u003Cem\u003EAPSNews\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/andrew-zangwill\u0022\u003EAndrew Zangwill\u003C\/a\u003E reflects on the debate on the boundaries of physics and its impact on the discipline. Zangwill states \u201cfor more than a century, physicists have been drawing and redrawing the borders around the field, embracing and rejecting subfields along the way.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2024-04-15 16:11:35","changed_gmt":"2024-04-17 15:01:29","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"American Physical Society News","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.aps.org\/publications\/apsnews\/202405\/backpage.cfm","dateline":{"date":"2024-04-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-04-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"192249","name":"cos-community"},{"id":"193633","name":"History of Physics"},{"id":"4530","name":"opinion"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"674130":{"#nid":"674130","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"AFRL\u2019s Aloha Telescope celebrates 10-year anniversary empowering students through outreach","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EIt\u2019s been 10 years since the \u003Cspan\u003EAir Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL\u003C\/span\u003E, successfully launched the astronomy outreach program called \u003Cspan\u003EAloha Explorations at the Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing site, or AMOS\u003C\/span\u003E, in Maui, Hawaii. This STEM outreach project uses an 11-inch Celestron telescope, also known as the Aloha Telescope, to provide students in grades K-12 the ability to view live images from their classrooms and remotely control the telescope via an internet connection. The idea for this project originated from \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/james-sowell\u0022\u003EDr. James Sowell\u003C\/a\u003E, an astronomer and observatory director at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E. (This story also appeared at \u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ladailypost.com\/air-force-research-laboratorys-aloha-telescope-celebrates-10-year-anniversary-empowering-students-through-outreach\/\u0022\u003ELos Alamos Daily Post\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E and\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/467805\/afrls-aloha-telescope-celebrates-10-year-anniversary-empowering-students-through-outreach\u0022\u003EDefense Visual Information Distribution Service\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E.)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EIt\u2019s been 10 years since the \u003Cspan\u003EAir Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL\u003C\/span\u003E, successfully launched the astronomy outreach program called \u003Cspan\u003EAloha Explorations at the Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing site, or AMOS\u003C\/span\u003E, in Maui, Hawaii. This STEM outreach project uses an 11-inch Celestron telescope, also known as the Aloha Telescope, to provide students in grades K-12 the ability to view live images from their classrooms and remotely control the telescope via an internet connection. The idea for this project originated from \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/james-sowell\u0022\u003EDr. James Sowell\u003C\/a\u003E, an astronomer and observatory director at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E. (This story also appeared at \u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ladailypost.com\/air-force-research-laboratorys-aloha-telescope-celebrates-10-year-anniversary-empowering-students-through-outreach\/\u0022\u003ELos Alamos Daily Post\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E and\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/467805\/afrls-aloha-telescope-celebrates-10-year-anniversary-empowering-students-through-outreach\u0022\u003EDefense Visual Information Distribution Service\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E.)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2024-04-10 18:00:04","changed_gmt":"2024-04-15 15:48:43","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Air Force Research Laboratory","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.afrl.af.mil\/News\/Article-Display\/Article\/3731156\/afrls-aloha-telescope-celebrates-10-year-anniversary-empowering-students-throug\/","dateline":{"date":"2024-04-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-04-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"42901","name":"Community"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"4188","name":"astronomy"},{"id":"173948","name":"Aloha Telescope"},{"id":"191613","name":"Georgia Tech Aloha Telescope"},{"id":"191204","name":"Air Force Research Laboratory"},{"id":"192249","name":"cos-community"},{"id":"192252","name":"cos-planetary"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"674144":{"#nid":"674144","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Physicists Design Wormlike, Limbless Robots to Navigate Obstacle Courses, Aid in Search and Rescue Efforts","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. Robotics Student in Robotics \u003Cstrong\u003ETianyu Wang\u003C\/strong\u003E and Postdoctoral Physics Scholar \u003Cstrong\u003EChristopher Pierce\u003C\/strong\u003E are developing snakelike, limbless robots. The robots could come in handy in search-and-rescue situations, where they could navigate collapsed buildings to find and assist survivors \u2014 and could readily move through confined and cluttered spaces such as debris fields, where walking or wheeled robots and human rescuers tend to fail.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. Robotics Student in Robotics \u003Cstrong\u003ETianyu Wang\u003C\/strong\u003E and Postdoctoral Physics Scholar \u003Cstrong\u003EChristopher Pierce\u003C\/strong\u003E are developing snakelike, limbless robots. The robots could come in handy in search-and-rescue situations, where they could navigate collapsed buildings to find and assist survivors \u2014 and could readily move through confined and cluttered spaces such as debris fields, where walking or wheeled robots and human rescuers tend to fail.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34528","created_gmt":"2024-04-11 14:06:33","changed_gmt":"2024-04-11 18:09:50","author":"jhunt7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"The Conversation","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/we-designed-wormlike-limbless-robots-that-navigate-obstacle-courses-they-could-be-used-for-search-and-rescue-one-day-220828","dateline":{"date":"2024-02-14T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2024-02-14T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"674133":{"#nid":"674133","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Adirondack Park\u2019s role in animal migration","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERecent studies show nearly half of the world\u2019s species are on the move because of the changing climate and habitat disruption. Apart from slowing fossil fuel production and prioritizing carbon storage, a direct solution for species inching north as temperatures rise is improving climate connectivity, a term likely coined by researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology in a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1073\/pnas.1602817113\u0022\u003E2016 study\u003C\/a\u003E. The idea builds on the established science of wildlife corridors and land conservation that supports the migration of animals. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E Assistant Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/mcguire-dr-jenny-l\u0022\u003EJenny McGuire\u003C\/a\u003E, who worked on the study, said this kind of movement differs from traditional migration patterns. Instead of departing annually and returning, species are permanently moving to areas they\u2019re finding more hospitable. \u201cThey\u2019re moving in such a way that they\u2019re tracking the climates they\u2019re suited to live in or able to live in, and then staying in those places,\u201d McGuire said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERecent studies show nearly half of the world\u2019s species are on the move because of the changing climate and habitat disruption. Apart from slowing fossil fuel production and prioritizing carbon storage, a direct solution for species inching north as temperatures rise is improving climate connectivity, a term likely coined by researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology in a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1073\/pnas.1602817113\u0022\u003E2016 study\u003C\/a\u003E. The idea builds on the established science of wildlife corridors and land conservation that supports the migration of animals. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E Assistant Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/mcguire-dr-jenny-l\u0022\u003EJenny McGuire\u003C\/a\u003E, who worked on the study, said this kind of movement differs from traditional migration patterns. Instead of departing annually and returning, species are permanently moving to areas they\u2019re finding more hospitable. \u201cThey\u2019re moving in such a way that they\u2019re tracking the climates they\u2019re suited to live in or able to live in, and then staying in those places,\u201d McGuire said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2024-04-10 19:02:49","changed_gmt":"2024-04-11 17:56:16","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Adirondack Explorer","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.adirondackexplorer.org\/stories\/seeking-refuge-adirondacks","dateline":{"date":"2024-03-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-03-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"192254","name":"cos-climate"},{"id":"172121","name":"climate connectivity"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"674136":{"#nid":"674136","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Is AI ready to mass-produce lay summaries of research articles?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EA surge in tools that generate text is allowing research papers to be summarized for a broad audience, and in any language. But some scientists feel that improvements are needed before we can rely on AI to describe studies accurately. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/will-ratcliff\u0022\u003EWill Ratcliff\u003C\/a\u003E, an a\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Essociate professor\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, argues that no tool can produce better text than can professional writers. Although researchers have different writing abilities, he invariably prefers reading scientific material produced by study authors over those generated by AI. \u201cI like to see what the authors wrote. They put craft into it, and I find their abstract to be more informative,\u201d he says.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EA surge in tools that generate text is allowing research papers to be summarized for a broad audience, and in any language. But some scientists feel that improvements are needed before we can rely on AI to describe studies accurately. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/will-ratcliff\u0022\u003EWill Ratcliff\u003C\/a\u003E, an a\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Essociate professor\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, argues that no tool can produce better text than can professional writers. Although researchers have different writing abilities, he invariably prefers reading scientific material produced by study authors over those generated by AI. \u201cI like to see what the authors wrote. They put craft into it, and I find their abstract to be more informative,\u201d he says.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2024-04-10 19:44:03","changed_gmt":"2024-04-11 17:56:11","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Nature Index","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-024-00865-4","dateline":{"date":"2024-03-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-03-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"2556","name":"artificial intelligence"},{"id":"193627","name":"AI lay-summary tools"},{"id":"193628","name":"AI lay-summary platform"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"673489":{"#nid":"673489","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Sea Cucumber \u0022Nurseries\u0022 Could Protect Coral Reefs","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECoral reefs play a crucial role in the region\u2019s biodiversity, food security, employment, tourism, and medical research, but many reefs are suffering degradation due to pollution, ocean warming and overfishing. Growing sea cucumbers in underwater nurseries could be a way of restoring their services as \u201cvacuum cleaners\u201d of the ocean to protect the Asia-Pacific\u2019s declining coral reefs, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EBiological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E Researchers \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/mark-hay\u0022\u003EMark Hay\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=hIj0CIAAAAAJ\u0026amp;hl=en\u0022\u003ECody Clements\u003C\/a\u003E suggest in their recently released study.\u0026nbsp;(This was also covered at \u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/newatlas.com\/environment\/sea-cucumber-coral-reefs\/\u0022\u003ENew Atlas\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gizmodo.jp\/2024\/03\/sea-cucumbers-clean-the-ocean.html\u0022\u003EGizmodo Japan\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eand\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/goodmenproject.com\/featured-content\/sea-cucumber-nurseries-could-protect-coral-reefs\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Good Men Project\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECoral reefs play a crucial role in the region\u2019s biodiversity, food security, employment, tourism, and medical research, but many reefs are suffering degradation due to pollution, ocean warming and overfishing. Growing sea cucumbers in underwater nurseries could be a way of restoring their services as \u201cvacuum cleaners\u201d of the ocean to protect the Asia-Pacific\u2019s declining coral reefs, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EBiological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E Researchers \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/mark-hay\u0022\u003EMark Hay\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=hIj0CIAAAAAJ\u0026amp;hl=en\u0022\u003ECody Clements\u003C\/a\u003E suggest in their recently released study.\u0026nbsp;(This was also covered at \u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/newatlas.com\/environment\/sea-cucumber-coral-reefs\/\u0022\u003ENew Atlas\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gizmodo.jp\/2024\/03\/sea-cucumbers-clean-the-ocean.html\u0022\u003EGizmodo Japan\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/goodmenproject.com\/featured-content\/sea-cucumber-nurseries-could-protect-coral-reefs\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Good Men Project\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"35575","created_gmt":"2024-03-12 18:49:20","changed_gmt":"2024-04-11 14:44:04","author":"adavidson38","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"SciDev.Net","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.scidev.net\/global\/news\/sea-cucumber-nurseries-could-protect-coral-reefs\/","dateline":{"date":"2024-03-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-03-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"565971","name":"Ocean Science and Engineering (OSE)"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"138","name":"Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"14760","name":"coral reef"},{"id":"182537","name":"coral reef conservation"},{"id":"193538","name":"sea cucumber"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}