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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 new study that analyzes ancient soil once stored at the University at Buffalo is causing a worrisome rethinking of the history of Greenland’s ice sheet and reveals its fragile nature today.
A report by scientists offers the first genomic evidence that Atlantic cod evolved new traits over only decades during a period of overfishing – evolutionary changes that scientists formerly believed could take millions of years.
A team of scientists from NYU has devised a system that replicates the movement of naturally occurring phenomena, such as hurricanes and algae, using laser beams and the spinning of microscopic rotors.
A groundbreaking technique presents a new way of gathering and organizing highly detailed information about organic tissues in record time.
A study showed 100% of red-tailed hawks tested at the clinic were positive for exposure to anticoagulant rodenticides.