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Stephen Hawking's death on March 14 – Albert Einstein's birthday – brought an end to the legendary career of the world-reknowned physicist and cosmologist. Hawking's groundbreaking work on black holes inspired several College of Sciences researchers in their own studies about the nature of the universe.
Many of us grew up thinking of California as the epicenter of most earthquake activity in the United States. (It’s really Alaska.) But today, in the contiguous U.S., most of the major tremors—magnitude 3 or higher—actually occur in Oklahoma. And these tremors don’t appear to come from wholly natural causes.
Three graduate students from College of Sciences attended the inaugural Communicating Science Conference—Atlanta (ComSciCon-Atlanta), held on March 1-2, 2018, at Georgia Tech. Like the 46 other participants, they wanted to improve how to talk to nonscientists about their research.
Itch receptors in the throats of mice appear to contribute to bronchoconstriction and airway hypersensitivity, which are hallmarks of asthma and other respiratory disorders.
It's been all lightning bolts for Laura and James Belanger, who met at Georgia Tech as undergraduates, fell in love, got married and pursued careers as rival forecasters for two of the nation's biggest weather services.
The 2018 Atlanta Science Festival offers a kaleidoscope of cures for boring science including two new events from the College of Sciences. Taste of Science and Silver Scream Science Spookshow will spark enthusiasm, joy, and curiosity through nerdy exploration of food and ear-shattering hard-rock rendering of scientific concepts.
