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The risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits, report says

A new report warns that AI poses a serious threat to children's cognitive development and emotional well-being.

January 16, 2026
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  • Cory Turner
The Morehouse School of Medicine building is seen on Wednesday, May 4, 2022, in Atlanta. A new initiative aimed at increasing the number of Black Americans registered as organ donors and combating disparities among transplant recipients was announced Thursday by a coalition that includes the four medical schools at the nation's historically Black colleges and universities.

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Low-income Georgia women can get free cancer screenings. Many don’t. A new study asks why

Low-income women in Georgia and across the country can get screenings for breast and cervical cancer for free — but not all of them do.

November 13, 2025
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  • Rebecca Grapevine and
  • Healthbeat
A rendering of the Rowen Convergence Center shows a green field and several buildings from an aerial view.

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'A multi-generational project.' Life sciences campus in Gwinnett County begins vertical construction

The Rowen Center, modeled after North Carolina’s “research triangle,” is halfway between universities in Athens and Atlanta.

October 30, 2025
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  • Orlando Montoya
The alligator Hall County Sheriff's Office police found in a pond.

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Georgia's alligators use their tongues to detect salt in changing freshwater environments

As climate change causes ocean levels to rise, more bodies of freshwater inland become saltier. Researchers are studying the ability of animals who live in that freshwater to adapt.

October 20, 2025
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By:
  • Chase McGee

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  • Education

The government has long researched high school experiences. Then DOGE cut the effort

The federal government has long surveyed high schoolers to help track how their academic choices may have influenced the course of their lives. The Trump administration put an end to that effort.

October 07, 2025
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By:
  • Carmela Guaglianone
Kirk, the already resident alpha male at the Project Chimps refuge near Blue Ridge, and Adam, newly arrived from the partner laboratory in Louisiana, after a recent playdate.

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WATCH: For lab chimps to retire, they need to learn the rules of the new neighborhood

Laboratories in the United States quit performing experiments on chimpanzees over a decade ago. North Georgia's Blue Ridge is home to some of these former lab residents.

September 25, 2025
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
Students walk past Royce Hall at the UCLA campus in Los Angeles on Aug. 15, 2024.

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  • Education

Judge orders Trump administration to restore $500 million in grant funding to UCLA

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore $500 million in federal grant funding that it froze at the University of California, Los Angeles.

September 23, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Hands holding a small Altamaha bass.

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Researchers discover two new species of bass in Georgia

Researchers in Georgia and South Carolina have identified two new species of bass, previously mistaken for the more common redeye bass living in the South.

September 02, 2025
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  • Chase McGee
Student researchers observing joro spiders in tubes.

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Joro spiders sometimes demonstrate cannibalistic behavior, per UGA study

For the better part of the past decade, people in Georgia have reported seeing yellow-striped Joro spiders perched on webs. A new study from the University of Georgia finds some of the normally peaceful spider can be aggressive.

July 31, 2025
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By:
  • Chase McGee
The Beltsville Agricultural Research Center in Beltsville, Md., is shown in this August 2016 photo.

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U.S. probes foreign links to agriculture research to protect food supply

While researchers agree food security is important, they say scrutiny of foreign collaboration could hurt U.S. innovation.

July 23, 2025
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo
Jessica Chaikof was born with Usher 1F syndrome, which results in congenital deafness and eventual blindness.

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She hoped key research could help save her eyesight. Then the Trump funding cuts came

Jessica Chaikof says research into gene therapies could someday save her eyesight. But she worries cuts to federal research funding could mean that therapy won't be ready in time.

June 24, 2025
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  • Craig LeMoult
Hundreds of NIH scientists protested cuts to the research agency in a declaration addressed to NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya.

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NIH scientists call on director to protect biomedical research

In a public letter, hundreds of scientists expressed their dissent to the Trump administration's policies affecting the National Institutes of Health and called on its director to support the agency.

June 09, 2025
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By:
  • Rob Stein
A large splash forms after a diver executes a Manu jump in the Georgia Tech pool. A recent study used principles of a maneuver traced to the Maori people of New Zealand.

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Research from Georgia Tech will help you make a big splash at the pool this summer

The study looked into a cultural jump from the indigenous people of New Zealand.

May 26, 2025
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By:
  • Amanda Andrews
In this Jan. 27, 2021, file photo, a "For Rent" sign is posted in Sacramento, Calif.

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Metro Atlanta has highest rate of corporate home ownership, says Georgia State researcher

U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff gave updates on an investigation into corporate home ownership rates across Georgia — a practice experts say has made it harder for individuals to buy affordable housing.

May 14, 2025
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  • Chase McGee
Gain-of-function research became especially controversial and politically polarized during the COVID-19 pandemic. One theory states the SARS-CoV-2 virus spilled out of a Chinese laboratory in Wuhan, China.

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Trump restricts funding for 'gain-of-function' research — calling it dangerous

President Trump issued an executive order Monday banning federal funding for any research abroad that involves a field of scientific study known as "gain-of-function" research. Here's what it means.

May 06, 2025
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  • Rob Stein
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