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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

5 min read

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.

Aerospace, Energy, Research

Aerospace, Energy, Research

June 30, 2025

Ready Named Inaugural Executive Director of the Georgia Tech Space Research Institute

3 min read

Effective July 1, Ready will serve as the inaugural executive director of Georgia Tech’s new Space Research Institute, which will officially launch on the same date.

June 30, 2025

Tim Lieuwen Receives ASME Medal, the Society’s Highest Honor

1 min read

AE faculty member and ME alumnus recognized for leadership in clean energy, propulsion, policy.

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

June 27, 2025

Celebrating Employee Excellence

3 min read

Five honored with IMS Employee Excellence Awards

Artificial Intelligence, Student Competition Winners (academic, innovation, and research)

A woman using a wheelchair and wearing a grey business suit meets with work colleagues.

Artificial Intelligence, Student Competition Winners (academic, innovation, and research)

June 27, 2025

OMSCS Team Takes Entrepreneurial Tack to Win $10,000 in Microsoft Azure Challenge

3 min read

A student team has "learned the value of AI" by creating a job coaching app for people with disabilities.

June 27, 2025

Cyberattacks Shake Voters’ Trust in Elections, Regardless of Party

6 min read

Nearly half of Americans, both Democrats and Republicans, question whether elections are conducted fairly.

Energy

Angshuman Guin (a male professor wearing a black suit) sits at a desk in front of two monitors displaying data

Energy

June 26, 2025

The Slow and the Furious: The Researcher Driven to Curb Atlanta’s Soul-Crushing Commute

1 min read

An engineer’s unexpected path to Georgia Tech is paved with detours, data, and a dose of humor.

Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science/Information Technology and Security, Research, Student and Faculty, Student Competition Winners (academic, innovation, and research), Student Research

Neurons growing in a culture dish (NASA)

Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science/Information Technology and Security, Research, Student and Faculty, Student Competition Winners (academic, innovation, and research), Student Research

June 26, 2025

Brain-Inspired AI Breakthrough Spotlighted at Global Conference

3 min read

Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed an algorithm that helps AI models develop internal organization just like the human brain — boosting efficiency by 20 percent.

Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science/Information Technology and Security, Robotics

June 25, 2025

Tech Researchers Tabbed to Build AI Systems for Medical Robots in South Korea

4 min read

Georgia Tech researchers are collaborating with South Korean research institutes on a five-year grant to develop an AI-powered humanoid medical assistant to help doctors and nurses in South Korea.

Aerospace, Engineering, Environment, Institute and Campus, National Interests/National Security, Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts, Research

the planet mars with a satellite flying in front of it

Aerospace, Engineering, Environment, Institute and Campus, National Interests/National Security, Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts, Research

June 25, 2025

Mars Rising as the New Frontier of Science and Strategy

4 min read

As the White House accelerates plans for a 2026 crewed mission to Mars, Georgia Tech experts highlight the engineering, scientific, and diplomatic challenges that will shape the success—and sustainability—of humanity’s next giant leap.

Institute and Campus, State Impact

June 25, 2025

Georgia Tech Tops Princeton Review’s Best Value List

1 min read

The Institute earned the recognition for the third consecutive year.

June 25, 2025

How Do Scientists Calculate the Probability That an Asteroid Could Hit Earth?

4 min read

When scientists spot an asteroid whose trajectory might take it close to Earth, they monitor it frequently and calculate the probability that it might collide with our planet.

Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Research

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

Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Research

June 24, 2025

Georgia Tech Researchers Make an Elemental Discovery

3 min read

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

Energy, Engineering, Research, Student and Faculty

Fan Zhang, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech Receives National Engineering Achievement Award from ANS

Energy, Engineering, Research, Student and Faculty

June 24, 2025

Fan Zhang Receives National Engineering Achievement Award from ANS

2 min read

Fan Zhang, assistant professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, has received the 2025 Landis Young Member Engineering Achievement Award from the American Nuclear Society (ANS).

Energy, Research, State Impact, Student Research, Workforce Development

The PIN Summer Interns at the opening ceremony

Energy, Research, State Impact, Student Research, Workforce Development

June 24, 2025

Partnership for Inclusive Innovation Kicks Off Record Summer Internship

1 min read

The Partnership for Inclusive Innovation launched the sixth annual PIN Summer Intern (PSI) program in May with an event at Fort Valley State University’s location in Warner Robins, Georgia. The program is shaping up to be the biggest yet.

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

1 min read

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.

Business

How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain

Business

June 23, 2025

A Summer Read for Supply Chain Learners: 'How the World Ran Out of Everything' by Peter Goodman

2 min read

A grounded look at what happens when supply chains break — and what it teaches us about how we build them.

Heavy smoke and fire rise from an oil refinery in southern Tehran

June 19, 2025

Nuclear Scientists Have Long Been Targets in Covert Ops – Israel Has Brought That Policy Out of the Shadows

7 min read

At least 14 nuclear scientists are believed to be among those killed in Israel’s Operation Rising Lion, launched on June 13, 2025, ostensibly to destroy or degrade Iran’s nuclear program and military capabilities.

A satellite image of blooming phytoplankton, visible as green-tinted swirls, in the South Atlantic. Credit: NASA

June 19, 2025

Ocean ‘Greening’ at Poles Could Spell Changes for Fisheries

4 min read

Ocean waters are getting greener at the poles and bluer toward the equator, according to an analysis of satellite data published in Science on June 19.