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Plants & Animals Feb 26, 2024

'Janitors' of the sea: Overharvested sea cucumbers play crucial role in protecting coral

Corals are foundational for ocean life. Known as the rainforests of the sea, they create habitats for 25% of all marine organisms, despite only covering less than 1% of the ocean's area.

Biochemistry Feb 26, 2024

A clearer image of glaucoma: The relationship between unfolding and aggregation for glaucoma-associated myocilin

From Parkinson's and Alzheimer's to cardiac arrhythmia, amyloids are linked to a number of diseases. These aggregates of proteins form in the body when a protein loses its normal structure and misfolds or mutates. And since ...

Environment Feb 23, 2024

EPA raises concerns about Georgia's handling of toxic coal ash

The federal Environmental Protection Agency has notified counterparts at the Georgia Environmental Protection Division that they believe the state may be allowing Georgia Power to store toxic coal ash in ways that are "less ...

Economics & Business Feb 16, 2024

Q&A: Machine-learning model tracks trends in public finance research

What are the leading topics in public finance and budgeting, how have they changed, and what future topics should be more closely researched by professionals and practitioners?

Environment Feb 16, 2024

Georgia cities face tall task to meet new air pollution standard

Environmental regulators have decided to set a tighter standard for a tiny, but insidious class of air pollution particles linked to serious illnesses and thousands of premature deaths.

Plants & Animals Feb 13, 2024

Study suggests invasive spider tolerates urban landscape better than most native spiders

The Jorō (Joro) spider was first spotted stateside around 2013 and has since been spotted across Georgia and the Southeast. New research from the University of Georgia has found more clues as to why the spider has been so ...

General Physics Feb 12, 2024

The dynamics of deformable systems: Study unravels mathematical mystery of cable-like structures

Are our bodies solid or liquid? We all know the convention—that solids maintain their shapes, while liquids fill the containers they're in. But often in the real world, those lines are blurred. Imagine walking on a beach. ...

Astronomy Feb 9, 2024

Learning the trick to finding cannibalized stars

Scientists working with the powerful telescopes at Georgia State's Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) Array have completed a survey of a group of stars suspected to have devoured most of the gas from orbiting ...

Plants & Animals Feb 8, 2024

A fungal plague is killing Georgia's bats. Scientists are fighting back

On a bright December morning, three wildlife biologists waded through knee-deep water and past scribbled graffiti into a dark drainage culvert in northeast Georgia.

Social Sciences Jan 30, 2024

Understanding differences within nonconformity

Stand-out individuals often capture our attention, especially in the United States. According to a recent University of Georgia study, not all nonconformists are the same. Although on the surface, several "stand-out" individuals ...

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