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Why after close to two years, it's still the early days of Hurricane Helene recovery
28+ min ago (1870+ words) April 7, 2026 8:37 AM By midmorning on a cool spring day, a crew of carpenters had already been working for hours at a construction site outside in rural Columbia County, west of Augusta." Amid the drone of an air compressor parked near…...
GPB morning headlines for April 7, 2026
1+ hour, 38+ min ago (60+ words) April 7, 2026 7:47 AM ANDREW HARNIK / AP Georgia has agreed to pay $4 million'to the family of a man who was'beaten to death in a state prison. The Artemis II astronauts' trip around the moon has Americans'thinking again about exploring and settling in…...
Liftoff! NASA astronauts have launched on a historic journey to the moon
5+ day, 9+ hour ago (346+ words) April 2, 2026 12:03 AM The SLS rocket carrying the crew of NASA's Artemis II mission to the moon thunders into the sky. / NASA Cheers erupted throughout the control room at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday as NASA's Artemis II mission…...
Scientists watch sperm whales work as a team to assist a birth
1+ week, 3+ day ago (691+ words) A group of sperm whales, including nonrelatives, work to keep a newborn calf afloat in the hours after its birth. The researchers knew something was off. It was July 2023, and they were on a boat in the Caribbean Sea, tracking…...
It's hard to track male turtles. Researchers say a new method could help manage at-risk populations
1+ week, 5+ day ago (250+ words) March 25, 2026 12:44 PM LISTEN: Every year during turtle nesting season, researchers get their best chance to study female turtles as they come ashore. Now, a UGA researcher has a solution for tracking the often difficult-to-find males. GPB's Chase McGee reports. Previously,…...
ChatGPT might give you bad medical advice, studies warn
3+ week, 5+ day ago (777+ words) As tech companies roll out platforms specifically designed for health care consultation, AI is rapidly becoming a key player in many people's medical decisions. According to OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, more than 40 million people consult the platform every day…...
Aquifer rebounds after International Paper closure
1+ mon, 21+ hour ago (559+ words) March 6, 2026 12:24 PM The graph shows the aquifer level rising dramatically in a USGS monitoring well after International Paper closed. Mary Landers, The Current Over the last four months, the Floridan aquifer in Savannah rose over to levels not seen in…...
Scientists make a pocket-sized AI brain with help from monkey neurons
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (815+ words) March 3, 2026 6:00 AM Researchers using data from macaque monkeys were able to shrink an AI vision model to a tiny fraction of its original size. / Getty Images A human brain consumes less power than a light bulb, while artificial intelligence systems…...
Peer pressure can make this clownfish change its stripes
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (930+ words) Tomato clownfish, like the one seen here nestled in a sea anemone, lose all but one of their white stripes (the head bar) as they grow up. In the Disney film Finding Nemo, the clownfish Marlin worries that his son…...
Listen: Buoy off Tybee Island hears right whale's 'contact call"
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (315+ words) February 11, 2026 1:33 PM A Georgia monitoring buoy off the coast of Tybee Island listening for'the calls of endangered right whales heard a few for the first time late last month. GPB's Peter Biello reports. Right whale Catalog #3260 "Skittle" and calf sighted…...