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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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Finding published in Nature opens door to new geology research covering a 50 plus kilometer lunar region
Granites, which result from magma due to igneous activity, are nearly absent in our Solar System outside Earth.
A new study from a global team that included Brown conservation biologists used innovative methods to efficiently and precisely analyze the dietary habits of two groups of elephants in Kenya
ASU professor gets grant to develop unusual training method for therapists
A new study shows that people believe a product is less efficacious when they share it with strangers rather than friends, leading them to use more to make up for that perceived low efficacy.