Mercury News


A new theory allows researchers to create easy-to-solve mathematical models using cables, a previously challenging mathematical problem — offering key insights into the behavior of deformable solids, with applications spanning from engineering and biology to nanotechnology.



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Whether you’re a seasoned scientist or STEM-curious, the annual Atlanta Science Festival is the place for you. Hosting over 150 science-themed events across the metro Atlanta area over three weeks this March, we’re taking a look at how you can be part of this year’s festival.



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The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has released new images of M87*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy Messier 87, using data from observations taken in April 2018. 



Four faculty members have been selected for the second cohort of the Faculty Executive Leadership Academy (FELA) program, which is designed to identify and develop senior faculty members for leadership.



Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have created the world’s first functional semiconductor made from graphene, a single sheet of carbon atoms held together by the strongest bonds known. The breakthrough throws open the door to a new way of doing electronics.



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College of Sciences faculty Chris Reinhard, Joel Kostka, Francesca Storici, Tamara Bogdanović, Chandra Raman, JC Gumbart, Benjamin Freeman, James Stroud, Joe Lachance, Rose McCarty, and Xiaoyu He are the recipients of new endowed faculty appointments for the 2023-24 academic year.



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A new $630,000 NSF CAREER grant will help Zeb Rocklin, assistant professor in the School of Physics, continue his research into developing a new universal theory around mechanical metamaterials: a group of flexible solids that blur the traditional definition of what a solid is. 



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Physics Professor Nepomuk Otte and students have developed the Trinity Demonstrator to search for sources of high-energy neutrinos that contain clues to the early universe.


 


Thom Orlando (left) and Brant Jones

New Nature Astronomy research by Thom Orlando and Brant Jones shows electrons from Earth may contribute to the formation of water on the Moon’s surface. The work may impact our understanding of how water — a critical resource for life and sustained future human missions to the Moon — formed and continues to evolve on the lunar surface.



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Alumni will lend their expertise to Dean Susan Lozier and College administrators regarding priorities and direction for sciences education and research.



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Physicists from Georgia Tech and around the country shared their AI and ML research successes, and heard presentations from NSF and NASA officials on the funding landscape for proposals that include the technologies.


 



Jim Sowell talks about Georgia Tech's observatory, what can be learned from an eclipse, and why you should watch for it wherever you are.