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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 research challenges the long-held belief that the flu pandemic of 1918 disproportionately affected healthy young people.
The NASA mission, Psyche, is set to launch and is headed to explore a metallic space rock which is believed to be the remnant of a planetary core. The van-sized spacecraft with connections to MIT is expected to arrive at the potato-shaped asteroid in 2029.
A neuroscientist at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory is working on potential treatments for amblyopia, or lazy eye, which can impair vision.
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.