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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 finds that urban light pollution may disrupt the winter dormancy period for mosquitoes that transmit West Nile virus.
A new brain connection discovered by researchers can explain how early-life stress and adversity trigger disrupted operation of the brain’s reward circuit
Despite numerous advances in the understanding of how Type 1 diabetes develops and is managed, the global disease burden remains high.
Scientists are collaborating to study Turkey’s East Anatolian fault in the aftermath of major earthquakes earlier this year.
Physicists have reported the discovery of nano-scale devices that can transform into many different shapes and sizes even though they exist in solid states