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(From left) Georgia Congressman Tom Graves, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry Professor Thom Orlando, and postdoctoral researcher Zach Seibers in the REVEALS lab. (Photo by Renay San Miguel)

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine and Georgia Congressman Tom Graves this week toured the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry to get updates on the latest space exploration-related research.

 

Manhattan gridlock

In a future where self-driving and other internet-connected cars share the roads with the rest of us, hackers could not only wreck the occasional vehicle but possibly compound attacks to gridlock whole cities by stalling out a limited percentage of connected cars. Physicists calculated how many stalled cars would cause how much mayhem.

Facundo Fernandez aims to illuminate the dark side of the metabolome

Physics has dark matter, a form of matter that makes up about 85% of the universe and is composed of as-yet undiscovered particles. Similarly, biology has dark molecules, the unidentified members of the metabolome, which is the totality of small molecules in living organisms.

College of Sciences brought 7% of Georgia Tech's FY2019 external funding.

College of Sciences faculty raised a historic amount of external research funding in fiscal year 2019. At $70.5 million, the FY2019 total continues the College’s steady gains in external grants for the past several years.

Emily Madsen and Stephen Beckett with "Submerged" (Credit Joshua Weitz)

Biomedical engineering major student Emily Madsen uses her artistic skills to illuminate complex topics.