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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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Engineers from the University of South Florida collaborate with the U.S. military to invent a device that prevents improvised explosive devices from detonating.
A new study offers a powerful AI-assisted method for uncovering exactly how TB drugs kill the bacteria, opening the door to smarter treatment combinations that could work faster.
A collaboration involving a Rutgers University-New Brunswick cosmologist, along with hundreds of other researchers and dozens of institutions, is exploring the nature of dark energy, a mysterious driver of the universe's accelerating expansion, aided by high-tech experiments and very precise data.
Physicians at the University at Buffalo performed their first surgery on a sleep apnea patient using a new, FDA-approved device which helps keep the airway open during sleep by controlling the muscle in the tongue.
Researchers at UC Irvine and other institutions have noticed contradictory wildfire trends worldwide, discovering that despite a 26 percent decline in total burned area from 2002 to 2021, the number of people exposed to wildfires has surged by nearly 40 percent.