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UMD geologists uncovered evidence of a section of seafloor that sank into the Earth's mantle when dinosaurs roamed the Earth; it's located off the west coast of South America in a zone known as the East Pacific Rise.
Novel research supported by NCI could lead to more specific predictive disease models
A new University of Kansas study reveals parents seeking health care information for their children trust AI more than health care professionals when the author is unknown, and parents rate AI generated text as credible, moral and trustworthy.
Hypertension and amyloid plaques can separately cause dementia. Having both increases a person’s odds of developing cognitive decline, a new study finds
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University of Florida researchers recently concluded the largest study on audio deepfakes to date, challenging 1,200 humans to identify real audio messages from digital fakes.
Researchers at Purdue University have made advancements in the desalination process, challenging the common assumption that there is limited room for improvement in this energy-intensive method of addressing water scarcity.
Researchers at Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, in collaboration with Michigan State University, are leading an innovative project aimed at making irrigation more efficient and cost-effective for farmers.
A recent study published by researchers at the University of Kansas and Brown University examined how adults' next-day responsibilities influence their decisions about cannabis consumption.
A joint project between University of Kansas and University of Houston supported by $1.8 million from the National Science Foundation’s second Future of Semiconductor program (FuSe2) will produce atomically tunable memory resistors, dubbed “memristors,” for brain-inspired advanced computing — while training the workforce for the nation’s semiconductor industry.