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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 institute from the University at Buffalo will ensure that kids with speech and language disorders receive timely, effective assistance.
A new study from the Texas A&M uncovers a brain circuit involved in fentanyl addiction and relapse, paving the way for better treatments.
Researchers from MIT & Stanford are exploring a phenomenon known as in-context learning, in which a large language model learns to accomplish a task after seeing only a few examples despite the fact that it wasn’t trained for that task.
When older adults with cancer take multiple medications it can result in more toxic chemotherapy side effects, according to new research.
A $2.5 million grant from the NHLBI allows researchers from UNC Chapel Hill and Penn State to examine the genetic underpinnings of heart attack and stroke in Hispanic populations.
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