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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 University of Miami industrial engineering graduate student has conducted research that shows which sites in Miami-Dade County are at risk and proposes strategies to make those systems more resilient to sea level rise.
Georgia Tech researchers have created a wearable device to accurately measure obstructive sleep apnea as well as the quality of sleep people get when they are at rest.
Northwestern researchers have worked with an international team of collaborators to create acetic acid out of carbon monoxide derived from captured carbon.
Sleep scientists from University of California, Berkeley suggests that deep sleep might help alleviate some of dementia’s most devastating outcomes.
UMD researchers studied ways to both increase equity in liver transplants for people from around the country while preserving the maximum number of viable organs for transplant.