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Earth (Courtesy of Rensselaer)

Relationships based on “you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours” are everywhere in the biological world. The recently established Center for the Origin of Life (COOL) will harness these mutualisms to unravel the distant past.

Diana Toro (left) with a student from Scott Elementary School

Biochemistry major Diana Toro and Computer Science major Tessa Stubbs partnered with Discovery to begin the Little Einsteins Organization, a STEM-focused, after-school program for elementary school students.

Kim Cobb before House Committee on Natural Resources on Feb. 6, 2019

Kim Cobb testifies before the House of Representatives' Natural Resources Committee hearing on climate change. She urges early action to counter the devastating impacts of climate change. 

Hierarchical structures (Credit: Peter Yunker)

Conventional wisdom says complex structures should be harder to assemble than simple ones. Their assembly requires more information and presents more opportunities to make mistakes. But in nature, complex assemblies and higher error rates do not necessarily mean higher failure rates. 

Galileo's close encounter with a Europa water plume

Georgia Tech researchers uncovered a previously unrecognized encounter between a plume from Jupiter's moon Europa and the spacecraft Galileo almost 20 years ago.