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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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Assistant professor at Purdue led an all-woman team of into the wilds of Antarctica to research the climate history of the continent – and the planet.
Genetic study of modern humans, Neanderthals, and Denisovans from the University at Buffalo points to the importance of ‘balancing selection’ in evolution.
A recent excavation in Israel unearthed the earliest example of cranial surgery in the Ancient Near East, and potentially one of the oldest examples of leprosy in the world.
Three years into the COVID-19 pandemic, new variant outbreaks continue to fuel economic disruptions and hospitalizations across the globe.
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In a new study, MIT physicists report they have for the first time observed a resonance in colliding ultracold molecules.