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A real worm in a Petri dish (top left) and a robot worm (bottom right) clean their environments of tiny particles in a very similar manner.
Researchers Discover How Worms Clean Their Environment Without a Brain

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When placed in sand-filled Petri dishes, centimeter-long aquatic worms like T. tubifex spontaneously sweep up particles and reorganize their…
Degraded marsh on Cumberland Island, Georgia.
Coastal Resilience Project Secures Nearly $1 Million to Restore Wetlands

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The award will support the design of nature-based solutions including living shorelines and marsh restoration in flood-prone areas of Camden…
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Illness Is More Than Just Biological – Medical Sociology Shows How Social Factors Get Under the Skin and Cause Disease

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By studying the way social forces shape health inequalities, medical sociology helps address how health and illness extend beyond the body and into…
Mice have complex visual systems that can clarify how vision works in people. Westend61/Getty Images
Gazing Into the Mind’s Eye With Mice – How Neuroscientists Are Seeing Human Vision More Clearly

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Studying how mice see has helped researchers discover unprecedented details about how individual brain cells communicate and work together to create…
Affectionally called "DragonCon for neuroscience," the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting is one of the largest academic conferences in the world.
Georgia Tech Researchers Make Waves at the World’s Largest Neuroscience Conference

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With more than 60 presentations and recognition for neuroscience outreach and AI research, Georgia Tech demonstrated its growing impact at the 2025…
Wearable chest-mounted patch and forehead-mounted pulse oximeter shown on a mannequin baby for illustration
Advancing Neonatal Health Monitoring in Ethiopia

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Soft, wearable system offers continuous wireless monitoring of newborns’ health.
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The Year in Photos — 2025

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Before new technologies end up in your doctor’s office or car, they start in a Georgia Tech lab. Our work creates medical breakthroughs. Our…

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Georgia Tech Researchers Among World’s Most Highly Cited in 2025

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Georgia Tech proudly announces its faculty who have been named to the Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers 2025 list.
A tall white man wearing a blue GT-branded polo standing next to a slightly shorter man wearing a UGA-branded red polo. They're smiling and both holding a football.
Clean, Old-Fashioned Collaboration: Engineering the Future of Healthcare at Georgia Tech and UGA

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By uniting expertise and resources, Georgia’s leading institutions are creating practical solutions to improve health outcomes across the state.
Matthew Gombolay and Aaron Young pose in the lab while Ph.D. researchers work on a leg exoskeleton device.
Real-World Helper Exoskeletons Just Got Closer to Reality

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Georgia Tech researchers are using AI to quickly train exoskeleton devices, making it much more practical to develop, improve, and ultimately deploy…

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