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Deep in the mud
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Everyone knows of volcanoes and their ability to do anything from burying cities to changing the climate.
Finding the missing link
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There may be a lot of fish in Georgia’s waters, but Robert Bringolf is looking for just one.
Putting a price tag on elections
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The Carl Vinson Institute of Government in collaboration with the National Association of Counties and with funding from The Pew Charitable Trusts is conducting a nationwide study to find out what it costs local governments to hold elections in the U.S.
License to invent
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Ben Franklin, Thomas Edison, Steve Jobs and ... professors at UGA?
Remains of the Day
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The sun never set. Sally Walker, a paleontologist at UGA, could walk outside the scientific research station any time, day or night, into a dazzling world of dry valleys and vistas of ice.
Fewer twisters
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Global warming will likely mean more unpredictable weather, scientists say, and a new study by researchers at the University of Georgia pins down, possibly for the first time, how drought conditions in an area’s fall and winter may effect tornado activity the following spring.
Big discovery of a tiny animal
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Researchers from the University of Georgia Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources weren’t looking for anything new when they went exploring in the northeast part of the state.
The heat is on
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University of Georgia kinesiology researchers will launch a new study of 2,500 football players at 25 high schools across the state when pre-season practices begin in August that will provide the scientific data to help administrators and coaches set effective heat-related policies nationwide,…
Restoring the American chestnut
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In their prime, the American chestnut trees stood a hundred feet tall and six feet wide. Now, they’re typically no bigger than shrubs, thanks to a fungal disease that spread down the East Coast decades ago, virtually wiping out the hardwood tree.