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After successfully enrolling Georgia Tech faculty and staff in two-factor authentication, Georgia Tech Cyber Security is beginning to enroll students starting this semester.

Sand-swimming lizards, slithering robotic snakes, dusk-flying moths and running roaches all have one thing in common: They're increasingly being studied by physicists interested in understanding the shared strategies these creatures have developed to overcome the challenges of moving though their environments.

A new analysis done to support the investigation into the 2015 sinking of the El Faro cargo ship has calculated the likelihood of a massive rogue wave during Hurricane Joaquin in October of that year – and demonstrated a new technique for evaluating the probability of rogue waves over space and time. 

Campus protests on Sept. 18 spurred some students to wonder how they could bring the community together in response.