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This travel case holds a toolkit containing equipment for inspecting nuclear facilities

July 20, 2025

How the World’s Nuclear Watchdog Monitors Facilities Around the World – and What it Means That Iran Kicked it Out

6 min read

What happens when a country seeks to develop a peaceful nuclear energy program?

July 18, 2025

Fun with Science: Marcus Nanotechnology Cleanroom and Materials Characterization Facility

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Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine features Walter Henderson in their latest issue "If These Walls Could Talk"

Computer generated model of nanoparticles

July 11, 2025

New AI Tool Deciphers Mysteries of Nanoparticle Motion in Liquid Environments

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Georgia Tech researchers have developed an AI model that deciphers and simulates the motion of nanoparticles in liquid environments, offering insights into nanoscale physics.

Photo of Silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafer

July 9, 2025

Lighting the Way to Faster Data Transfer

3 min read

DARPA is backing Professor Ali Adibi’s work to use light, not electricity, to move data faster and more efficiently in next-generation electronics.

Prototype of an "exploding" capsule next to a syringe. The capsule can deliver medications that are typically only effective if injected.

July 8, 2025

These ‘Exploding’ Capsules Could Deliver Insulin Without a Needle

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Engineers use sodium bicarb to “self-pressurize” a pill able to deliver drugs that usually require injection directly to the small intestine.

An image from Iranian television shows centrifuges lining a hall at Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment facility in 2021. IRIB via APPEAR

July 1, 2025

Why the US Bombed a Bunch of Metal Tubes − a Nuclear Engineer Explains the Importance of Centrifuges to Iranian Efforts to Build Nuclear Weapons

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When U.S. forces attacked Iran’s nuclear facilities on June 21, 2025, the main target was metal tubes in laboratories deep underground. The tubes are centrifuges that produce highly enriched uranium needed to build nuclear weapons.

July 1, 2025

Georgia Tech Launches Two New Interdisciplinary Research Institutes

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By uniting experts across disciplines, Georgia Tech is positioning itself at the forefront of neuroscience and space research.

Gary Spinner and Rebecca Grieco received the first IMS employee excellence awards

June 27, 2025

Celebrating Employee Excellence

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Five honored with IMS Employee Excellence Awards

The devices under test will include halide perovskite-based cells, a likely materials platform for next-generation solar cells.

June 24, 2025

Space Station Testing Will Evaluate Photovoltaic Materials

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Georgia Tech researchers will soon send 18 photovoltaic cells to the International Space Station for a study of how space conditions affect the devices’ operation over time.

A diagram showing how the atoms are connected in the praseodymium compound (left); a chart showing the most important electron interactions (right).

June 24, 2025

Georgia Tech Researchers Make an Elemental Discovery

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New Oxidation State for a Rare Earth Element Could Advance Quantum and Electronic Devices

June 18, 2025

Spring 2025 IMS Seed Grant Awards Announced

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Five interdisciplinary projects to receive IMS technical support and facility access

June 5, 2025

Army Awards Tech-Led Project $20M to Develop Aluminum Manufacturing for Hydrogen Energy Production

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The multi-year research project could make scalable off-grid power sources a reality for rural communities and the military.

Sun Geun Yoon works in a glove box in McDowell’s laboratory at Georgia Tech.

June 5, 2025

A New Metal Design for Solid-State Batteries

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The solid-state battery would be game-changing for electric vehicles.

May 28, 2025

Fusion Energy’s Starry Future

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Georgia Tech professor Eric Vogel is part of a national collaboration working to develop advanced materials for commercial fusion reactors.

Berry College student Jacob Sylvie and his advisor Zack Lindsey working at a materials imaging tool

May 27, 2025

Empowering Undergraduate Research Through Collaboration

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The SENIC Catalyst Program provided resources that helped a liberal arts college student publish his first scientific paper and win a top national scholarship

Lena Gamboa and Gabe Kwong look at colorized cells on a computer monitor while Ali Zamat loads samples into a cell counting device. (Photo: Candler Hobbs)

May 19, 2025

Painting a Target on Cancer to Make Therapy More Effective

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A BME team is putting a synthetic flag on tumors, then engineering a patient’s immune cells to find and eliminate cancer.

Jud Ready holds a sample of a perovskite solar cell, along with other samples similar to those launched to the International Space Station. (Photo: Branden Camp)

May 19, 2025

10 Questions with Jud Ready

4 min read

Ready had hoped earning his bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in materials science and engineering at Georgia Tech would lead him to a spot in NASA’s Astronaut Corps. Instead, it’s led him to GTRI, where his passion for space is alive and well.

Machinery in the mmWave Antennas & Arrays Lab

May 14, 2025

The Lab Building the Antennas of Tomorrow

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The mmWave Antennas & Arrays Lab is at the forefront of developing technologies that could revolutionize how we connect.

May 14, 2025

Georgia Tech Celebrates 2025 Ph.D. Graduates in Cybersecurity and Privacy

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Five Ph.D. students from Georgia Tech’s School of Cybersecurity and Privacy graduated in Spring 2025, contributing significant research in software security, cryptography, and privacy with 34 published papers.

Man with crossed arms standing in a hallway with many windows

May 7, 2025

Spidey Sense: How a Triple Jacket Makes Microelectronics Matter

1 min read

Mikkel Thomas fell into microelectronics — and fell in love with it. Now, he’s leading more people to the field.