Georgia State University

The CHARA Array’s survey has unveiled the presence of stripped subdwarf stars orbiting Be stars, highlighting a crucial stage in the life cycle of close binary stars and advancing our understanding of stellar dynamics and evolution. Credit: SciTechDaily.comAstronomers using Georgia State’s CHARA Array have detected the faint light of stellar corpses beside predator stars.Scientists working with the powerful telescopes at Georgia State’s Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) Array have completed a survey of…

Research from Georgia State University shows that gut bacteria, particularly segmented filamentous bacteria, play a crucial role in protecting mice against respiratory viruses by influencing immune cells in the lungs. This study could have profound implications for understanding and managing respiratory infections in humans.Researchers at the Center for Translational Antiviral Research within the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University have discovered that the makeup of gut microbiota affects mice’s…

To keep college students happy and engaged in their coursework, administrators at Georgia State University turned to a school fixture with blue fur and ferocious teeth: Pounce, the school mascot.In the real world, Pounce is a fuzzy game-day presence, rooting on the university’s athletes. In the virtual world, the mascot is a chatbot enhanced with artificial intelligence. The virtual version was introduced in the summer of 2016 to incoming freshmen, who could text questions to Pounce 24/7 and in just seconds get answers…