Adam Marcus
Illustration by Studio Muti In his day job, Adam Marcus directs a research laboratory focused on cancer biology at Emory’s Winship Cancer Institute. But at least twice a month, Marcus packs up his...
View ArticleAtlanta Science Festival
Illustration by Studio Muti A smartphone, a tasty beer, and a drum concert by a musician with a prosthetic arm: All brought to you by . . . science. To explain the how and why of these phenomena and...
View ArticleFernbank Museum shines a light on animals that glow
Image by CathyKeifer/Dreamstime.com In Creatures of Light: Nature’s Bioluminescence (March 26-August 14), Fernbank explores the habitats of bioluminescent animals—critters that create their own light....
View ArticleThese Georgia Tech physicists helped prove Einstein right
Georgia Tech physics professors Deirdre Shoemaker (left) and Laura CadonatiPhotograph by Josh Meister Deirdre Shoemaker has known from the time she was a 12-year-old science fiction fan that she wanted...
View ArticleDiaScan is Atlanta’s biotech firm to watch—and it was started by two local teens
Santhosh Subramanian (left) and Sanjit KumarPhotograph by Zach Wolfe In the summer of 2015, Santhosh Subramanian was 17 and about to enter his senior year at Northview High School. He was spending the...
View ArticleThe CDC celebrates its longtime photographer, Jim Gathany
A lab worker monitors eggs used to grow the flu virus as part of vaccine research.Photograph by Jim Gathany Since 1986 photographer Jim Gathany has documented the inner workings of the Centers for...
View ArticleNeil deGrasse Tyson: The expanding universe will have “no impact on Atlanta...
Neil deGrasse Tyson will be at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre on June 15.Photo illustration by Gluekit Neil deGrasse Tyson may not quite be a household name, but among those interested in...
View ArticleHurry, go see this concept Mars rover while it’s at SunTrust Park
The rover on display at SunTrust ParkPhotograph by Joe Reisigl It’s not street legal. If it tried, it could probably only reach 30 miles per hour. And unfortunately it doesn’t have any cup holders. But...
View ArticleSolar eclipse 101: What to know about watching in Georgia
On August 21, for the first time in nearly a century, a total solar eclipse will cross the United States, sweeping southeast from Oregon to South Carolina. Here, your eclipse watching 101. What to...
View ArticleAn unexpected discovery in Middle Georgia: Rare-earth elements used in...
In 2016, Georgia State University graduate student Danny Gardner wrote a thesis that called for digging a little deeper into materials mined near the town of Sandersville, the self-proclaimed “Kaolin...
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