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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 research team led by the UC Irvine has built the first genetic reference maps for short lengths of DNA repeated multiple times which are known to cause more than 50 lethal human diseases, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Huntington’s disease and multiple cancers.
A new study on how comets evolve reveals that deep space objects like Kuiper Belt Object 486958 Arrokoth may be time capsules containing ancient ices from billions of years ago.
A new study is shaking up what scientists thought they knew about distant objects in the far reaches of the s
A team led by Arizona State University scientists have developed an AI-based learning tool that has uncovered new information about how an individual person’s immune system responds to foreign cells.
Participants in the Framingham Heart Study who achieved higher levels of education tended to age more slowly and went on to live longer lives as compared to those who did not achieve upward educational mobility, according to a new study by Columbia.
A team of scientists recently found three unexpected proteins while studying the motors that power the flagella of a species of bacteria.