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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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A University at Buffalo literary scholar has co-edited a new edition of Emily Dickinson’s correspondence that takes readers beyond vague notions of Dickinson’s loneliness and isolation to reveal instead an intensely interactive and deeply involved member of a community.
A team from UArizona has discovered a method to target mosquito larvae by exploiting the unique alkaline environment of their guts.
Stanford-led research shows methane emissions from a large share of U.S. oil and gas facilities are three times higher on average than the level predicted by official government estimates.
Researchers from Stony Brook and Brookhaven ran quantum simulations to investigate whether entanglement persists in jets of secondary particles produced by high-energy particle collisions.
This article discusses the findings from the first scientific observations made by the Condor Array Telescope, a new telescope developed by researchers at Stony Brook University.