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The collision of neutron stars during the formation of the early universe resulted in precious metals like gold and platinum soaring through the heavens. A School of Physics graduate student will get NASA funding to explore that heavy metal-making process through simulations. 

Please join the College of Sciences in welcoming the new leadership of Georgia Tech’s Center for Relativistic Astrophysics (CRA): School of Physics professor Laura Cadonati will serve as CRA Director, and is joined by associate professor Tamara Bogdanović, who will serve as CRA Associate Director.

Reduced resilience of plant biomes in North America could be setting the stage for the kind of mass extinctions not seen since the retreat of glaciers and arrival of humans about 13,000 years ago, cautions a new study published August 20 in the journal Global Change Biology.
 

Using simulated components of the coronavirus’s distinctive spike proteins, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers, along with colleagues at the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), are producing antibodies that could lead to improved testing techniques for the virus, potential treatments for those infected with it – and ultimately, perhaps, a vaccine that could prevent coronavirus infection altogether.

Professors Weitz and Gibson explain Georgia Tech surveillance testing results so far, the need for ongoing vigilance and increased participation, and respond to community questions. Alexa Harter, CIPHER Director for GTRI, shares and answers questions about NOVID app.

A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have received a three-year, $1.5 million grant for their project entitled “SemiSynBio-II: A Hybrid Programmable Nano-Bioelectronic System.” The target applications for this technology are environmental monitoring and healthcare.