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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 team of scientists led by Brown University researchers describes using atmospheric data from Venus and computer modeling to show that it’s current atmosphere and surface pressure would only have been possible as a result of an early form of plate tectonics
Yale is developing vaccines that combat a variety of infections by thwarting the ability of ticks to feed and even alert human hosts when they have been bitten.
A spacecraft the size of a cereal box has collected precise measurements of the atmospheres of large and puffy planets called “hot Jupiters.” The findings, led by a team from CU Boulder, could help reveal how the atmospheres around these and a host of other worlds are escaping into space.
A large-scale satellite mapping project, co-founded by a Brown researcher is helping archaeologists identify sweeping climate and cultural changes that occurred in the Andes Mountains over the last millennium.
Findings published in Current Biology set stage to better understand the “invisible” ocean ecosystem and its importance