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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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New MIT research provides a theoretical proof for a phenomenon observed in practice: that encoding symmetries in the machine learning model helps the model learn with fewer data. Image: Alex Shipps/MIT CSAIL
A research team from Purdue University has discovered that artificial intelligence can simulate tree growth and shape.
Researchers led by a University of California, Berkeley psychologist have found that great apes and chimps, our closest living relatives, can recognize groupmates they haven't seen in over two decades.
An international team of researchers including the Washington University in St. Louis traces the roots of the longstanding cultural interactions across the Tibetan Plateau to prehistoric times, as early as the Bronze Age.
New study from University of Maryland reveals presidential pressure on the Federal Reserve can lead to significant inflation increases.