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The Energy Policy and Innovation Center (EPIcenter), in partnership with Georgia Tech's Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics program, recently hosted a three-part webinar series, Nuclear Energy: A Public Primer, bringing together experts to discuss the science, economics, policy, and geopolitics shaping the future of nuclear power.

It's not just our ancestry that determines health, Gibson says. It's also culture and environment. (Credit: Juliane Liebermann / Unsplash)
New research from Georgia Tech shows that a person's environment and life circumstances can amplify or reduce the health risks encoded in our DNA — leading to an array of health outcomes.
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Scientists used the Mississippi River Basin’s 100-year record to show that liming, long considered a source of carbon emissions, may actually remove carbon overall.

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David Ballantyne and Mariel Borowitz join SRI's leadership team to strengthen interdisciplinary research, expand strategic partnerships, and advance Georgia Tech's growing space enterprise.

Facundo M. Fernández

Regents’ Professor Facundo M. Fernández will serve a two-year term on the board of an international society dedicated to advancing the study of metabolites, small molecules found in living systems.

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A new study by EPIcenter affiliate Marilyn A. Brown and coauthor Majid Ahmadi examines how racial segregation affects what households pay for basic utilities. Using detailed data from Atlanta, Georgia, the authors investigate whether predominantly Black neighborhoods face higher energy burdens only because of income and housing differences, or whether segregation itself plays a direct role. Their analysis combines mortgage denial data, housing information, utility costs, and household income to show how long-standing discriminatory housing and lending practices continue to shape energy affordability today.

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For most of the industrial era, spreading crushed limestone across farmland has been treated as a carbon problem. The rock contains carbon; it ends up in contact with air and water, and by the most conservative accounting conventions, carbon is assumed to escape as carbon dioxide. Regulators and major climate assessments have baked that assumption into their default rules for decades.

A study published in Nature now argues that the opposite is true and that the error came from asking the wrong question. Across more than 120 years of records from the Mississippi River Basin, the researchers, including study co-author Chris Reinhard, conclude that agricultural liming has removed somewhere between 300 and 400 million metric tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere since 1900.

Intelligent Living September 27, 2026

Oceanographer Lily Dove has worked with marine mammals and robots to better understand climate change in Antarctica. In an interview published by Science News Explores, she discusses her experiences and shares advice for students interested in careers in science.

Science News Explores September 23, 2026

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Welcome — we're so glad you're here. Learn more about us in this video, narrated by Susan Lozier, College of Sciences Dean and Betsy Middleton and John Clark Sutherland Chair.