The treatment uses a type of CRISPR to target viral RNA and appears to stop replication of both viruses in the lungs. With a relatively…
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Both humans and alligators have four-chamber hearts, but alligator hearts are uniquely resilient to temperature extremes. Credit: Z. Owerkowicz Mammals and cold-blooded alligators share a…
A sidewinder snake is shown in a sand-filled arena that researchers used to understand the unique motion they use to climb sandy slopes. Credit: Rob…
Solid-state batteries are charged and discharged in custom-made hardware designed at Georgia Tech. A smaller, modified version of the cell shown here was used to…
The flower-like set of points represents all possible shapes that the smarticle swarm can take on. In line with rattling theory, the most common shapes…
The Gibson Generating Station is a coal-burning power plant located in Gibson County, Indiana. Credit: Emily Grubert, Georgia Tech Decarbonizing U.S. electricity production will require…
A slingshot spider is ready to launch its cone-shaped web at a flying insect. To do so, the spider will release a bundle of silk,…
Using a device that could be built with a dollar’s worth of open-source parts and a 3D-printed case, researchers want to help the hundreds of…
Crab Nebula is a supernova remnant. In the (Western) year 1054, Chinese astronomers recorded the supernova that blasted the nebula into existence. Credit: NASA, ESA,…
Built with multifunctional appendages able to spin wheels that can also be “wiggled” and lifted, the Mini Rover was modeled on a novel NASA rover…
Using ORNL’s Summit supercomputer, scientists can comb through millions of medical journal articles looking for possible connections among FDA-approved drug therapies and known COVID-19 symptoms.…
Flexible walls, here in blue, a few hundred microns high emulate the surface of a gecko’s foot to make the same kind of adhesive force…
Despite Mercury’s daytime Vulcan heat, there is permanent ice at the poles, according to data and images from a NASA probe that visited Mercury in…
Georgia Tech undergraduate student Gaurav Byagathvalli and Assistant Professor Saad Bhamla with examples of butane lighters they used to create the inexpensive ElectroPen – an…
This illustration shows how the two layers of plastic and silica work together to protect the perovskite material. Credit: Georgia Tech Armored with plastic ‘hair’…
On the right, satellite composition of El Nino in 1997, and on the left, El Nino in 2015. Both were extreme El Nino events that…
The Alpha Centauri group is the closest star – or solar – system outside of our own at a distance of 4.3 lightyears, and it…
Thanks to new technology that enables them to create simple tools, robots may be on the verge of their own version of the Stone Age.…