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A running theme throughout the conference was the growing influence of cutting-edge technologies like artificial intelligence — and how researchers are preparing for the ethical, social and practical challenges that they bring.
AI and machine learning provide new tools for scientists to think about drug discovery.
Graduate programs across the College of Sciences are again ranked among the nation’s best in the 2026 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate School Rankings, reflecting Georgia Tech’s continued leadership in science and research.
One day after the historic Artemis II launch, the College of Sciences welcomed more than 150 researchers, students, and community members to its signature Frontiers in Science conference.
Congratulations to environmental science majors Annie Lin and Madeline Weller.
This year's Frontiers in Science conference will offer an inspiring look at the future of space exploration and life beyond Earth — from satellites and rovers to bold visions for human exploration. Our 2026 speaker schedule includes more than two dozen leading scientists, engineers, and thought leaders who are pushing the boundaries of what lies beyond.
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Bacteria have no neurons or memories in the human sense. Yet in a new study, researchers at Georgia Tech and Carnegie Mellon University — including School of Physics Associate Professor Shiladitya Banerjee and Postdoctoral Fellow Josiah Kratz — found that individual E. coli cells carried traces of past hardship into the future. When nutrients repeatedly rose and fell, the cells changed how quickly they grew, suggesting that even simple microbes can use experience to prepare for what may come next.
ZME Science June 10, 2026A new Georgia Tech study found the chemical plume from the 2024 BioLab fire in Conyers, Ga., released bromine, not chlorine, as its dominant compound in the immediate aftermath. This finding stands in stark contrast to early public warnings about the fire, which prompted 17,000 evacuations, closed portions of I-20, and led to overnight shelter-in-place orders for weeks. Nearly two years later, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board is still investigating the fire and chemical release.
The Georgia Tech paper containing the study was published in the March 2026 issue of Environmental Science & Technology Letters and identified 26 different chemical species in the air following the Sept. 29, 2024, fire at the BioLab facility in Conyers. The authors wrote that the chemically complex plume "exposed millions in metropolitan Atlanta to numerous toxic compounds" and represented the first detailed study of a pool chemical facility fire.
GPB June 10, 2026
