Sciences Research | Research News Center

A hazy photo of an electronic board, possibly an internal image of a data center.

July 9, 2026

Data Centers Are Booming. Who Benefits?

5 min read

Data centers continue to expand across the U.S. Do the communities nearby really benefit?

July 7, 2026

Zhu Receives NSF CAREER Award

3 min read

Mathematics Assistant Professor Wei Zhu has been awarded a five-year, $500,000 CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.

July 6, 2026

Researchers Use GeoGuessr Champion to Test Geolocation Accuracy in VLMs

5 min read

Researchers have developed what they believe is the strongest benchmark dataset on measuring the geolocation accuracy of LLMs.

July 6, 2026

Georgia Tech Startup Develops Defense Technology to Counter Emerging Drone Threats

5 min read

From a student startup idea to a growing defense technology company, Askari demonstrates how Georgia Tech's commercialization ecosystem helps founders transform emerging technologies into solutions addressing real-world challenges.

A medical worker wearing latex gloves uses a device to test a patient's blood sugar.

July 1, 2026

New Research Seeks to Help Transplanted Cells Thrive in Type 1 Diabetes Treatment

1 min read

Alexander Vlahos has been awarded a five-year, research grant to support pioneering work aimed at improving therapies for T1D.

4 panel image: clockwise from upper left - solar panels in field, data center and cooling complex, Hormuz Island, gas pump in a car's fuel port

July 1, 2026

EPIcenter Experts in the News: AI, Prices, and the War

1 min read

EPIcenter Faculty Affiliates have recently contributed to more than a dozen news broadcasts, public radio interviews, and national media conversations on energy price trends, the war in Iran, and what these mean for everyday Americans.

June 30, 2026

Meet the Expert: Brian An

1 min read

In this EPIcenter Expert series, meet Brian An, EPIcenter Affiliate, studying the intersection of energy resilience and urban policy to improve grid equity during extreme weather.

Digital illustration of a brain surrounded by two distinct visual patterns. One side is composed of structured blue connections resembling an organized network map, while the other features colorful, dispersed light patterns, representing distributed neural activity. The image symbolizes competing brain architectures explored in the study.

June 29, 2026

The Myth of the ‘Lizard Brain’ and the Real Trade-Off Inside Your Mind

5 min read

A new study from Georgia Tech examines how different brain systems scale together across species, offering a new perspective on brain organization — and its potential applications in artificial intelligence.

Two researchers and a patient using the Kinemo technology.

June 25, 2026

Georgia Tech Earns Top-10 Rankings in Innovation Commercialization

3 min read

Georgia Tech continues to strengthen its position as one of the nation’s leaders in research commercialization

Georgia Tech's Tech Tower with flowers blooming in the foreground

June 24, 2026

Researchers Discover Membrane-Based Approach to More Sustainable Oil Refining

6 min read

Published in Nature, the researchers' findings suggest that using membranes to separate crude oil before distillation could significantly reduce the energy, water, and carbon footprint of petroleum refining.

United States map showing the eight regions of the CORE-CM Initiative. Courtesy: Department of Energy Core-CM Initiative

June 24, 2026

Mining New Possibilities for Critical Minerals: Mapping a Stronger U.S. Supply Chain

4 min read

A new Department of Energy award will help Georgia Tech lead a regional effort to identify, recover, and reuse materials essential to energy, manufacturing, and national security.

A collection of utilities like power plants, geothermal stations, solar farms, etc.

June 24, 2026

ICSFlux: Using Physics to Uncover Cyberthreats

4 min read

To find hidden vulnerabilites before an attacker does, researchers built a testing tool called ICSFlux that leans on the physics used by the industrial process and maps out the system to find new threats once thought impossible.

Professors Ryan Lively (Georgia Tech) and Dong-Yeun Koh (KAIST). Koh used to be postdoctoral researcher in the Lively Lab.

June 24, 2026

Researchers Discover Membrane-Based Approach to More Sustainable Oil Refining

6 min read

Published in Nature, the researchers' findings suggest that using membranes to separate crude oil before distillation could significantly reduce the energy, water, and carbon footprint of petroleum refining.

Stock image that shows a soccer stadium as the center of an AI chip design

June 24, 2026

What It Takes to Deliver a Tech‑Heavy World Cup

1 min read

With hundreds of thousands of people attending the 104 World Cup games, Georgia Tech experts explain how electrical and computer engineering are facilitating some of the tournament's newest and most crucial technology.

A participant at a Georgia Tech manufacturing workshop cuts metal on industrial equipment.

June 22, 2026

From Classroom to Manufacturing Floor: Teachers Build Real-World Manufacturing Skills at Georgia Tech

6 min read

Rural Georgia teachers gain practical machine shop training at Georgia Tech, bringing advanced manufacturing skills back to their classrooms.

Sign reading Cyber Forensics Innovation Laboratory The CyFI Lab

June 18, 2026

Research Gets to the Core of AI Drone Crashes

3 min read

Researchers at Georgia Tech say they have developed a system to determine whether a cyberattack caused drone crashes.

June 18, 2026

Research Gets to the Core of AI Drone Crashes

3 min read

Researchers at Georgia Tech say they have developed a system to determine whether a cyberattack caused drone crashes.

Armita Manafzadeh (Credit: Scientific American)

June 16, 2026

From Fossils to Function: Armita Manafzadeh Honored by Scientific American

2 min read

The 2026 cohort includes 28 early-career scientists based in the United States who are changing the world with their work.

Close-up of hands positioning a flexible haptic device with embedded electronics under a microscope, highlighting the small components and patterned array used to deliver sensory feedback.

June 15, 2026

New Wearable Reroutes Lost Sensation, Restores Stability

4 min read

Researchers have developed a wireless wearable that translates foot pressure into heat and vibration, helping individuals with sensory impairments regain balance and mobility.

June 12, 2026

GIGABYTE Grant Supports Robotics and AI Ecosystem at Tech

1 min read

Georgia Tech’s Laboratory for Intelligent Decision and Autonomous Robots (LIDAR) was awarded a $1 million, three-year industrial grant from GIGABYTE to advance robotics and AI research, with a focus on helping robots better interact with the real world.