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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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University of Missouri researcher finds APRNs (advance practice registered nurses) are often overlooked, underutilized in nursing homes.
Research by UC Irvine experts F. Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina is at the heart of a recent U.N. report that the ozone hole is closing
An instrument developed at Yale in collaboration with experts at MIT and Maryland has given astronomers a better idea of how 55 Cnc e — also known as the “hell planet” — got where it is today.
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Lizards living in different cities have parallel genomic markers when compared to neighboring forest lizards, according to a study NYU, Princeton, and Washington University in St. Louis.
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Researchers at UC Irvine, Columbia University, and MIT have linked the mutation that causes Huntington’s disease to developmental deficits in the brain’s oligodendrocyte cells that are caused by changes in metabolism.
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