Ants are among the most industrious creatures on Earth, so it's only fitting that engineers would look to them for inspiration when designing small robots that can collaborate on complex tasks and maneuver through uneven territory.
The Georgia Tech women's volleyball team has a shot to play in their first-ever NCAA Final Four, and third-year School of Physics major Julia Bergmann is a big reason why. The 6' 5'' outside hitter, the ACC's player of the year, made some key kills and serves in the team's Thursday night win over Ohio State. That gives Georgia Tech its second-ever appearance in the Elite 8. Bergmann, whose hometown is Munich, Germany, went to high school in Brusque, Brazil.
Black soldier fly larvae devour food waste and other organic matter and are made of 60% protein. But they’re increasingly dying before they reach livestock facilities as animal feed. Researchers, recognizing the culprit is the collective heat generated when the maggots eat in crowded conditions, have found that delivering the right amount of airflow could help solve the overheating issue.
Those who are allergic to yeast but still crave a pizza every now and then may get a rise out of this report: A materials scientist at the University of Naples Federico II has led a team of researchers to develop a yeast-free pizza dough. The results of the study were published in the Physics of Fluids journal. David Hu, a professor in the School of Biological Sciences and the George W.
Alan Gilbert (MS Phys 93) was recently named co-chairman of The Foundry Inc., a private non-profit learning-based high school in Fayetteville, Ga. The news is highlighted in the Class Notes listings of the Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine's Ramblin' Roll section.
Small robots that have two flapping arms and can’t move around on their own can spontaneously link up and glide together instead. This self-organization may be related to how complex structures arise from simple building blocks in nature. Daniel Goldman, professor in the School of Physics, and his colleagues used small robots called smarticles — short for “smart active particles” — to observe self-organization in the lab.
Scientists at Georgia Tech and Clark University have developed robotic lizards in a collaboration combining robotics, math, biology, and artificial intelligence. The robots helped solve an evolutionary puzzle and could be the first step towards a new generation of wiggling robots.
Turbulence plays a key role in our daily lives, making for bumpy plane rides, affecting weather and climate, limiting the fuel efficiency of the cars we drive, and impacting clean energy technologies.
After years of planning and two Covid-induced delays, the TRACER (TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment) field campaign began last fall in the Houston, Texas, region, collecting data on clouds, aerosols, precipitation, meteorology, and radiation 24 hours a day, seven days a week. A four-month intensive operational period began June 1, bringing many more instruments and detailed measurements to the campaign.
