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Explorers of multicellularity: (from left) Kimberly Chen, Will Ratcliff, Frank Rosenzweig, and Matt Herron (Credit: Jennifer Pentz)

Bulking up to avoid being eaten may have been one reason single-celled organisms joined to form multicellular entities.

HFES-GT winning for Best Action Plan

There are three inevitable things in this world: death, taxes, and feeling like an idiot when you push a pull door or pull a push door. Doors should be intuitive, but if they’re not, it’s not your fault. It’s bad design. A psychology student group hopes to make people understand the role of good design in everyday life.

Professor John McDonald

Promising research toward what could become the first simple and accurate test for the early detection of ovarian cancer could be validated – and expanded – thanks to a significant grant from the Prevent Cancer Foundation.

Studying snakes on granular surfaces

Desert snakes slithering across the sand at night can encounter obstacles such as plants or twigs that alter the direction of their travel -- and cause them to mimic aspects of light or subatomic particles when they encounter a diffraction grating.

Stars of ScienceMatters Season 2

ScienceMatters, the podcast of the College of Sciences, brings more tales of curiosity and discovery. Season 2 is now live at sciencematters.gatech.edu.