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The smartphones in everyone’s purse or pocket could soon become powerful tools in the effort to control coronavirus in the campus community.

A representative photo of ice-cored pingos, emerging from the permafrost and dotting the arctic landscape near Tuktoyaktuk, in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Credit: Matt Jacques, Monte Cristo Magazine

NASA Dawn's second mission sheds new light on dwarf planet Ceres — including evidence of dome-like, ice-filled hills that resemble Earth's 'pingos'. The work could lead to new insights about the role of water in shaping the geology of icy bodies elsewhere in the solar system, and a better understanding of pingos in relation to Earth’s climate. The team has also received a grant for what will be the first-ever mapping of similar features in the Arctic: Pingo STARR.

Greg Gibson and Joshua Weitz provide updates on Covid-19 projections and coronavirus surveillance testing, with a focus on the return to campus.

Video recap: Watch Joshua Weitz and Greg Gibson provide updates on Covid-19 projections and coronavirus surveillance testing, with a focus on the return to campus.

One group of students suggested reducing the lighting time of the iconic Bank of America Plaza in midtown Atlanta.

In Georgia Tech's Energy, Environment, and Society class, students brainstorm strategies to deliver cost savings that significantly reduce the carbon footprint of large organizations — by millions of pounds of CO­2.

Bioethics Course

Goodisman’s remote summer course is teaching the basics of bioethics and engaging students in healthy debate and discussion about the Covid-19 pandemic.

Clathrate crystals in various stages of growth, along with control treatments (top left, top middle samples).

If science can figure out a safe, eco-friendly way to manipulate clathrates, then a wide range of disciplines and industries could benefit from the applications. A unique interdisciplinary team of Georgia Tech researchers may have found a way to accomplish that goal, using proteins embedded in bacteria from deep below the Earth’s surface to bind to clathrates and change them.