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Two billion years ago, Earth’s biosphere made much less oxygen than today, study finds.Findings will help in the search for life beyond the solar system.

Georgia Tech chemist M.G. Finn details the significance of 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the participation of Georgia Tech in the research enterprise spawned in part by the award-winning discoveries.

Kimberly Chen with ScienceMatters host Renay San Miguel

Kimberly Chen, a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Biological Sciences, won the ScienceMatters Episode 6 quiz. Chen studies the evolutionary transition from single-cell to multicellular organisms.

Elaine M. Hubbard

The late Elaine Hubbard gave generously to Georgia Tech during her lifetime, and her estate gift establishes the first endowed faculty chair in the School of Mathematics.

Arthur Ashkin wins 2018 Nobel Prize for optical tweezers (Courtesy of Nobel Media)

Optical tweezers are one of two inventions that won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Winners of 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Courtesy of Nobel Media)

By combining technologies based on their discoveries with other ways to treat cancer, the hope is to transform the lethal disease to a manageable, chronic one.