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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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Yale researchers have found that the ability of fish in temperate and polar ecosystems to move between shallow and deep water triggers species biodiversity.
UCI physicists have detected neutrinos created by a particle collider, a discovery which promises to deepen scientists’ understanding of the subatomic particles.
University of Arizona physicists led an international team in achieving optical switching of a light signal at one quintillionth of a second. to reach previously unattainable data transfer speeds.
Yale dermatologists are playing a key role in testing a new treatment for an often-disfiguring group of skin diseases that develop in children.
Researchers set out to understand daydreaming and the brain's default mode network, which may provide clues to why the risk for Alzheimer's is greater in women.