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Maximizing Research Opportunities
Prescription drug ads on television first hit the airwaves just more than a decade ago, but a new UGA study finds that most of them still do not present a fair balance of information, especially when it comes to the risk of side effects.
Saving species
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When Hazel Wetzstein holds a tiny Georgia plume plant, she’s not just tending a future shrub. She’s keeping a native species from becoming extinct.
Building bodies, boosting brains
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Many people claim to get their best ideas while on the elliptical machine, doing laps in the pool, or jogging along a quiet road, and scientists have consistently documented that exercise provides adults with cognitive benefits. But what about children?
Alien Invasion
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What began as a breakfast-table discussion between two UGA professors has led to a grant, from the Program in International Research and Education of the National Science Foundation, to study how various species from China have become invasive in the United States—and vice versa.
Borrowers and Lenders
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A bit more than half a century ago, a musical called West Side Story opened on Broadway.
Gene-ius
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There’s a moment in a scientist’s life—at least in the movies—when a virtual light bulb goes off and a new idea is born.