- Researchers developing a hair-thin, skin-soft wireless wearable sensor, known as an electronic tattoo or “e-tattoo" to remotely monitor pneumonia patients. https://rh.gatech.edu/news/651074/wireless-e-tattoo-pneumonia-aims-transform-patient-monitoring 3 comments futurology
- A new kinematic study explains how the “slingshot spider” stores enough energy to produce acceleration of 1,300m/s2 (4265ft/s2), or 100x the acceleration of a cheetah. It subjects the spider to forces of approx. 130Gs, more than 10x what fighter pilots can withstand without blacking out. https://rh.gatech.edu/news/637997/flies-and-mosquitoes-beware-here-comes-slingshot-spider 26 comments science
- Supernova "pizza slice" is a 2-meter lab machine that mimics the way a supernova's blast wave makes cosmic gas swirls like those seen in many nebulas. The wave travels through layers of gas with varying density to mimic gas layers in exploding stars. https://rh.gatech.edu/features/supernova-lab-mimics-cosmic-blasts-splendid-aftermath 3 comments science
- People surveyed thought robots are pretty incompetent, incapable of complex tasks, only competent at menial jobs. This was a surprise finding in a study originally designed to detect gender bias against gendered robots but found no significant such bias. https://rh.gatech.edu/news/635512/people-think-robots-are-pretty-incompetent-and-not-funny-new-study-says 7 comments science
- Mercury’s Vulcan 400 C heat could easily help it make some of the planet's glacial ice with the help of solar winds that shower the planet. https://rh.gatech.edu/features/mercurys-400oc-heat-may-help-it-make-its-own-ice 4 comments space
- Flickering light to fight Alzheimer's mobilizes brain immune chemistry that may fight the disease. Study in mice directly connected to human trials involving 40 Hz flickering light and changes to fluid chemistry. https://rh.gatech.edu/news/632029/flickering-light-mobilizes-brain-chemistry-may-fight-alzheimers 7 comments science
- Cheap, ultralight organic solar energy technology was too weak, but some tiny tweaks to its chemistry are bringing it back https://rh.gatech.edu/news/630223/tweaks-behind-rebirth-nearly-discarded-organic-solar-technologies 4 comments technology
- Bathroom scale could monitor patients with heart failure at home to reduce hospitalizations by allowing remote adjustment of medications. Successfully tested on 43 subjects. Measures throbbing in the body, long considered an artifact, by extracting data from it with machine learning. https://rh.gatech.edu/news/626479/bathroom-scale-could-monitor-millions-heart-failure 5 comments science
- Getting New Treatments to Patients Can Be Harder Than Landing on Mars https://rh.gatech.edu/features/getting-new-treatments-patients-can-be-harder-landing-mars 6 comments nottheonion
- The microbiome myth - the notion that collaborations between microbes in a microbiome are generous and exclusive turns out not to be true in a thorough study showing that a common mouth bacterium loves colon and dirt microbes but its own microbiome members not so much. http://www.rh.gatech.edu/news/625871/periodontitis-bacteria-love-colon-and-dirt-microbes 9 comments science
- Hackers could use connected cars to gridlock whole cities at rush hour if they can randomly stall out 20% of cars on the road, maybe less, but it would take 10% or a little less to wreak havoc. Physicists simulated city-wide hacks using percolation theory. http://www.rh.gatech.edu/news/623759/hackers-could-use-connected-cars-gridlock-whole-cities 42 comments science
- Game theory strategies make prescribing antibiotics actually help defeat antibiotic resistance by reversing the evolutionary scenarios that are boosting antibiotic-resistant bacteria. http://www.rh.gatech.edu/news/621176/antibiotics-taken-strategically-could-actually-help-defeat-antibiotic-resistance 7 comments science
- Durable or recyclable - Study looks into the impact of government policies to reduce the amount of electronics waste filling up landfills, finds that sometimes when you design for recyclability, you give up on durability, and when durability is the goal, recyclability is sacrificed. http://www.rh.gatech.edu/news/620090/durability-vs-recyclability-dueling-goals-making-electronics-more-sustainable 3 comments science
- Adhesive Formed From Bee Spit and Flower Oil Could Form Basis of New Glues http://www.rh.gatech.edu/news/619730/adhesive-formed-bee-spit-and-flower-oil-could-form-basis-new-glues 3 comments science
- The motion of snakes slithering around obstacles mimics aspects of light or subatomic particles when encountering a diffraction grating. Possible application of the research could be to build search and rescue robots that can get into complex environments and help first responders. http://www.rh.gatech.edu/news/618439/when-sand-slithering-snakes-behave-light-waves 2 comments science
- The helix that ended up in RNA and DNA may have arisen with startling ease. In lab experiments, highly suspected proto-nucleotides and ribose-5-P self-assembled into spiraled strands. They could very easily be doped to spin all in a uniformed direction (chirality). http://www.rh.gatech.edu/news/616798/helix-dna-fame-may-have-arisen-startling-ease 3 comments science
- Flu Vaccine Supply Gaps Can Intensify Flu Seasons, Make Pandemics Deadlier. Researchers argue that flu vaccines should only be replenished in areas that need them. http://www.rh.gatech.edu/news/616037/flu-vaccine-supply-gaps-can-intensify-flu-seasons-make-pandemics-deadlier 4 comments science
- T cells that pose autoimmune dangers are eliminated by literally testing their physical grasp on the body's own molecules, self-antigens. If the reaction to self-antigens is too strong, thymocytes (baby T cells) grab them "two-handed," and too many too high-force grips trigger cell suicide. http://www.rh.gatech.edu/news/614045/suicide-handshakes-kill-precursor-t-cells-pose-autoimmune-dangers 3 comments science
- Engineers create fuel cell that runs on methane at temperatures comparable to automobile engines (Methane fuel cells usually require temps of 750-1000°C to run. This one needs only about 500°C). It has high potential to someday electrically power homes and perhaps cars, the researchers say. http://www.rh.gatech.edu/news/613410/finally-robust-fuel-cell-runs-methane-practical-temperatures 14 comments science
- Researcher strips all 1,000+ magnesium linchpins from the translational system, the cellular machine that makes all life out of genes, replaces them with iron. The whole TS survives, ribosome and all, and works beautifully. It could have thrived -- as-is today -- 4 billion years ago when it evolved. http://www.rh.gatech.edu/news/614079/stripping-linchpins-life-making-machine-reaffirms-its-seminal-evolution 20 comments science
- Researchers have discovered that the bacteria in the water in a large exhibit at Georgia Aquarium are similar to those that exist naturally in the ocean. http://www.rh.gatech.edu/features/tiny-bacteria-do-big-job-huge-fish-tank 3 comments science
- Laughing gas may have helped warm early earth and given breath to some life - N2O modeling and lab experiments add possibilities to what could have made faint young sun paradox work http://www.rh.gatech.edu/news/610192/laughing-gas-may-have-helped-warm-early-earth-and-given-breath-life 3 comments science
- As we get parched, cognitive abilities can easily sputter, says dehydration metadata study; particularly attentiveness, motor accuracy and high-level cognition like math and logic abilities suffer http://www.rh.gatech.edu/news/607818/we-get-parched-cognition-can-sputter-dehydration-study-says 7 comments science
- Ultracold trapped fermion pairs fly much weirder than previously thought, predicts theoretical study after 900 parallel processors computed for a week http://www.rh.gatech.edu/news/606647/spooky-quantum-particle-pairs-fly-weird-curveballs 5 comments science
- Want to Beat Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs? Rethink Strep Throat Remedies -- research paper http://www.rh.gatech.edu/news/600252/want-beat-antibiotic-resistant-superbugs-rethink-strep-throat-remedies 5 comments science
- After drug failures, fight against #1 killer, clogged arteries, turns to search for 'good cholesterol' that Actually Does work http://www.rh.gatech.edu/news/596973/fight-against-top-killer-clogged-arteries-garners-acclaimed-nih-award 5 comments worldnews
- As 'Flesh-Eating' Leishmania Come Closer, a Vaccine Against Them Does, Too http://www.rh.gatech.edu/news/595769/flesh-eating-leishmania-come-closer-vaccine-against-them-does-too 5 comments worldnews
- Skewing the Aim of Targeted Cancer Therapies -- -- why gene-based drugs could mostly be off their mark http://www.rh.gatech.edu/news/594430/skewing-aim-targeted-cancer-therapies 11 comments science
- Brain-like computing comes closer with neuromorphic materials for A.I. retina http://www.rh.gatech.edu/news/593815/brain-mimicking-nanomaterials-ai-retina-receive-7-million-research-grant 8 comments computervision
- Brain-like computing comes closer with neuromorphic nanomaterials for A.I. retina http://www.rh.gatech.edu/news/593815/brain-mimicking-nanomaterials-ai-retina-receive-7-million-research-grant 7 comments learnmachinelearning
- Brain-like computing comes closer with neuron-mimicking materials for artificially intelligent retina http://www.rh.gatech.edu/news/593815/brain-mimicking-nanomaterials-ai-retina-receive-7-million-research-grant 2 comments artificial
- Thwarting Metastasis by Breaking Cancer’s 'Legs' with Gold Rods and Near-Infrared Light http://www.rh.gatech.edu/news/592976/thwarting-metastasis-breaking-cancers-legs-gold-rods 6 comments science
- A new analysis of decades of data on oceans across the globe has revealed that the amount of dissolved oxygen contained in the water – an important measure of ocean health – has been declining for more than 20 years http://www.rh.gatech.edu/news/591290/decades-data-worlds-oceans-reveal-troubling-oxygen-decline 4 comments science
- Brake dust may affect respiratory health inducing asthma and wheezing http://www.rh.gatech.edu/news/588203/brake-dust-may-cause-more-problems-blackened-wheel-covers 8 comments science
- Finally getting Navier-Stokes around turbulence to make predictions http://www.rh.gatech.edu/features/predicting-turbulence 8 comments math
- Buzzing the Vagus Nerve Just Right to Fight Inflammatory Disease http://www.rh.gatech.edu/news/585555/buzzing-vagus-nerve-just-right-fight-inflammatory-disease 6 comments science
- Climate Change: Potentially Good News on Methane and Peat Carbon http://www.rh.gatech.edu/news/584985/climate-change-potentially-good-news-methane-and-peat-carbon 9 comments science
- 40-Year-Old Math Problem Solved -- graph theory http://www.rh.gatech.edu/features/40-year-old-math-problem-solved 42 comments math
- A big step to solving a 50-year-old evolutionary problem: Viscosity promotes gene strand self-replication http://www.rh.gatech.edu/news/582355/was-secret-spice-primal-gene-soup-thickener-0 6 comments science
- Evolutionary sleuth on PopSci's list "The Brilliant 10" http://www.rh.gatech.edu/news/568941/popular-science-puts-georgia-techs-will-ratcliff-brilliant-10-list 4 comments science