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Jaden Wang, a Ph.D. student in mathematics and master’s student in aerospace engineering at Georgia Tech, has received a prestigious NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunity. His research will focus on improving spacecraft landings by developing a curved-space geometry around optimal covariance steering.

An aerial photo of the SPRUCE experiment.

Between a third and half of all soil carbon on Earth is stored in peatlands, but as temperatures warm, this carbon is in danger of being released. A new study is unearthing the ratio of carbon dioxide to methane released — because while both are greenhouse gasses, methane is significantly more potent.

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As people age, walking often becomes slower and less efficient, limiting mobility and independence. To address these challenges, three Georgia Tech researchers have received a $3.2 million Research Project Grant (R01) from the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Institute on Aging (NIA).

ATP synthase is an enzyme that has been using phosphate to generate life’s energy for millions of years.

The questions of how humankind came to be, and whether we are alone in the universe, have captured imaginations for millennia. But to answer these questions, scientists must first understand life itself and how it could have arisen.

Georgia Tech Stamps Fellows Program announces Inaugural Cohort

Georgia Tech welcomed the inaugural cohort of eight Stamps Fellows at a campus reception on August 27, 2025. As the Institute’s premier merit-based doctoral fellowship, the program supports outstanding graduate students across diverse disciplines through funding, professional development, and mentorship opportunities.

 

Car exhaust (Adobe: elcovalana)

Scientists at Georgia Tech have teamed up with researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine and Columbia University to better understand how certain types of air pollution increase the risk of developing dementia. 

Experts In The News

As autumn begins, Georgia skies become a busy highway for millions of migrating birds, heading south. Benjamin Freeman, a biologist at the Georgia Tech School of Biological Sciences, says the timeline for this fall migration period is just beginning here in the Peach State. 

Watch the 11 Alive interview featuring Professor Freeman.

11 Alive September 15, 2025

On July 1, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) detected what was first believed to be an asteroid. As calculations for its orbit progressed, it was found to be from outside our solar system, only the third interstellar object ever detected.

[One] thing that astronomers discovered early on was that, rather than being an asteroid, the interstellar interloper dubbed 3I/ATLAS was a comet.

"It is doing things that we expect comets to do. It's producing the types of gasses that we see comets produce. It's got a coma and a tail now pointed in the expected direction," said James Wray, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. "I would say the short summary is it looks generally like a comet. But in detail, there are some intriguing differences from solar system comets."

CBC Lite September 13, 2025

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On the grounds between the Howey and Mason Buildings, several telescopes are typically set up for viewing, and visitors are also invited to bring their own telescope.

Spark: College of Sciences at Georgia Tech

Welcome — we're so glad you're here. Learn more about us in this video, narrated by Susan Lozier, College of Sciences Dean and Sutherland Chair.