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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 found that small businesses can pass the costs on to consumers with little negative impact.
A team of researchers have developed a new device to extract water from air.
Researchers from UCI have found that changing overturning circulation in the Pacific Ocean is consistent with the ocean being a significant driver of lower greenhouse gases during the last ice age.
A team of researchers from NYU has uncovered new laws governing the flow of fluids by studying a drinking straw.
The University of Missouri announced today an initiative to build a new, larger research reactor that will expand critical cancer-fighting research