{"587464":{"#nid":"587464","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Earwax: Coming To a Home Air Filtration System Near You?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIt\u0026#39;s not every day that a diving vacation paves the way for a possible technological innovation, much less one that involves earwax. Yet, that\u0026#39;s precisely what happened for Alexis Noel.\u0026nbsp;The\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/schools\/mechanical-engineering\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Emechanical engineering PhD candidate\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;at the Georgia Institute of Technology described her scuba diving trip, her boyfriend\u0026rsquo;s subsequent water-clogged ear, and the culprit\u0026mdash;earwax\u0026mdash;that kept the water trapped behind his eardrum to her professor,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.hu.gatech.edu\/about\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EDavid Hu\u003C\/a\u003E. In no time, the two were engaged in detailed discussions about the sticky substance.\u0026nbsp;Then it hit: What more can be learned from earwax? \u003Cem\u003EDavid Hu is an associate professor of mechanical engineering and of biological sciences and an adjunct associate professor of physics at Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"30678","created_gmt":"2017-02-15 15:49:48","changed_gmt":"2017-02-15 15:50:56","author":"A. Maureen Rouhi","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Pranav Kulkarni","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/innovation\/earwax-coming-home-air-filtration-system-near-you-180961910\/?utm_source=dailydigest\u0026utm_campaign=feb15\u0026utm_medium=email\u0026utm_content=earwax#CbBX4KhKU8f128iL.99","dateline":{"date":"2017-01-25T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2017-01-25T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"173474","name":"ear wax"},{"id":"297","name":"David Hu"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}