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ATP synthase is an enzyme that has been using phosphate to generate life’s energy for millions of years.

The questions of how humankind came to be, and whether we are alone in the universe, have captured imaginations for millennia. But to answer these questions, scientists must first understand life itself and how it could have arisen.

An aerial photo of the SPRUCE experiment.

Between a third and half of all soil carbon on Earth is stored in peatlands, but as temperatures warm, this carbon is in danger of being released. A new study is unearthing the ratio of carbon dioxide to methane released — because while both are greenhouse gasses, methane is significantly more potent.

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As people age, walking often becomes slower and less efficient, limiting mobility and independence. To address these challenges, three Georgia Tech researchers have received a $3.2 million Research Project Grant (R01) from the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Institute on Aging (NIA).

Georgia Tech Stamps Fellows Program announces Inaugural Cohort

Georgia Tech welcomed the inaugural cohort of eight Stamps Fellows at a campus reception on August 27, 2025. As the Institute’s premier merit-based doctoral fellowship, the program supports outstanding graduate students across diverse disciplines through funding, professional development, and mentorship opportunities.

 

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Jun Ueda, Professor and ASME Fellow in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech, has been awarded approximately $700,000 by the National Science Foundation to establish methods to enhance cybersecurity for networked motion-control system. 

Crawling Faster Goldman Juntao Publication

Juntao He, a Ph.D. student in the group of Daniel Goldman, Professor in the School of Physics at Georgia Tech led a pair of research papers that paves the way to make these bots able to move faster and climb higher in challenging environments.