Of the major food crops, only rice is currently able to survive flooding. Thanks to new research, that could soon change — good news for a world in which rains are increasing in both f... Read more
Just as the steam engine set the stage for the Industrial Revolution, and micro transistors sparked the digital age, nanoscale devices made from DNA are opening up a new era in bio-medical r... Read more
A machine-learning method discovered a hidden clue in people’s language predictive of the later emergence of psychosis — the frequent use of words associated with sound. The journal npj Schi... Read more
A National Institutes of Health-funded study led by a team at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University has shown that an influenza vaccine can produce robust immune responses... Read more
Device is easier on knees and ankles than conventional stairs Researchers at Georgia Tech and Emory University have created a device that makes walking up and down stairs easier. They’ve bui... Read more
Regenerating Damaged Nerves with “Pac-Man” Cells Biomedical engineers have found an unlikely ally in the struggle to regrow damaged nerves—the foot soldiers of the body’s i... Read more