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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 Texas A&M AgriLife plant scientist is joining the space race, of a sort, by helping to understand how plants can survive in space to support human space exploration.
Women in a flood-prone region of India are the key to protecting drinking-water wells for their families and neighbors, but they need stronger voices, according to University of Virginia climate researchers.
New research from the University of Minnesota found, when combined with artificial intelligence, remote sensing could dramatically improve management of soybean aphid, an invasive pest.
A research group at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute are using neural imaging, optogenetics, motion capture, modeling & AI to understand how a fruit fly’s brain toggles between its standard solo and its mating serenade.
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, led by @uarizona, has returned a sample from the 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu that shows evidence of water and high-carbon content, suggest that the building blocks of life on Earth may be found in the rock.