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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Georgia Tech and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have entered into a formal agreement to bolster the interactions, collaborations, and joint scientific output of both institutions.

Image: Ocean Visions

Led by Ocean Visions Chairman Emanuele Di Lorenzo, the new partnership seeks to develop and deploy ocean-based technologies that can draw down carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and ocean to reverse the impacts of climate change. A professor of ocean and climate dynamics, Di Lorenzo also serves as Director of Ocean Science & Engineering at Georgia Tech.

2020 Nobel Laureates

Faculty explain the work and importance of the 2020 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Physics, while the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences drops the name of a School of Physics professor emeritus in the background literature for this year's Physics prize.

Drawdown Georgia

Drawdown Georgia and its research team, led by the School of Public Policy's Marilyn Brown, rolls out its list of 20 climate solutions this week. 

Yassin Watson holds two undergraduate degrees from Georgia Tech, one in industrial engineering and one in biology.

Biology and industrial engineering double-major Yassin Watson discusses his time at Tech, research, and passions. 

An artist's rendition of Kepler 1625b-i and its exomoon candidate in the foreground (Image Wikimedia Commons)

A pair of researchers from the School of Physics have come up with a methodology for determining whether exoplanets -- planets discovered outside the solar system -- might have exomoons, and they've already had a chance to test their theories.