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The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has selected Jean-Luc Bredas to receive a Humboldt Research Award. The honor recognizes a researcher’s entire achievements to date. Recipients are academics whose fundamental discoveries, theories, or insights have had a significant impact on their own discipline and who are expected to continue producing cutting-edge achievements in the future.
It is a fact that climate is changing, but how much and how fast are the subject of debate. Georgia Tech researchers are attempting to answer these questions for peatlands, a freshwater wetland ecosystem. Their recent work indicates that warming of peatlands increases microbial production of greenhouse gases, releases more methane than carbon dioxide, reduces microbial diversity, and alters the composition of microbial communities in peat soils.
Puzzling results of a recent study of short DNA sequences by Harold Kim and former graduate student Jiyoun Jeong could pave the way to properly identifying the sequence dependence of rigidity and flexibility in DNA.
Scientists may need to rethink their estimates for how many planets outside our solar system could host a rich diversity of life in light of the discovery that a buildup of toxic gases in the atmospheres of most planets makes them unfit for complex life as we know it.
The journal Research in the Mathematical Sciences has selected a paper coauthored by Georgia Tech mathematicians Matthew Baker and Joseph Rabinoff as one of the inaugural recipients of its Best Article Award.
The 2019 Julius E. Uhlaner Award for outstanding contributions
in research on military selection and recruitment from the American Psychological Association (APA) Division 19 has been awarded to Phillip Ackerman's Knowledge and Skill Lab.
