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Georgia Tech continues its upward trajectory in the latest U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges 2026 rankings. Among top public national universities, Georgia Tech held steady at No. 9, and it achieved No. 1 rankings across several categories.
The award recognizes outstanding scientists conducting field research that both explores the natural world and leverages collaboration.
Jaden Wang, a Ph.D. student in mathematics and master’s student in aerospace engineering at Georgia Tech, has received a prestigious NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunity. His research will focus on improving spacecraft landings by developing a curved-space geometry around optimal covariance steering.
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.
Molecular ‘Fossils’ Offer Microscopic Clues to the Origins of Life – But They Take Care to Interpret
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.
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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As autumn begins, Georgia skies become a busy highway for millions of migrating birds, heading south. Benjamin Freeman, a biologist at the Georgia Tech School of Biological Sciences, says the timeline for this fall migration period is just beginning here in the Peach State.
Watch the 11 Alive interview featuring Professor Freeman.
11 Alive September 15, 2025On July 1, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) detected what was first believed to be an asteroid. As calculations for its orbit progressed, it was found to be from outside our solar system, only the third interstellar object ever detected.
[One] thing that astronomers discovered early on was that, rather than being an asteroid, the interstellar interloper dubbed 3I/ATLAS was a comet.
"It is doing things that we expect comets to do. It's producing the types of gasses that we see comets produce. It's got a coma and a tail now pointed in the expected direction," said James Wray, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. "I would say the short summary is it looks generally like a comet. But in detail, there are some intriguing differences from solar system comets."
CBC Lite September 13, 2025
