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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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Researchers from the University at Buffalo discovered a strategy to conserve power in data centers and optimize their data processing performance.
Astronomers from Yale discovered a pair of unusually close black holes that are feeding together after their respective galaxies collided.
This spring, children in Western New York are eligible to enroll in a clinical study of Pfizer’s new Lyme disease vaccine.
A new Yale-led study finds that testing for a single immune system molecule on nasal swabs can help detect stealthy viruses not identified in standard tests.
In a new study, an international team of astrophysicists have discovered six potential massive galaxies that should not be possible under current cosmological theory.