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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 at Yale University are investigating the genetic causes of Parkinson's disease.
Global concerns such as epidemics, wars and disasters weigh upon the minds of people around the world during every decade. But can a dominant global problem such as the Covid-19 pandemic cause people to neglect other urgent societal problems? A Stony Brook University study concludes that answer is yes.
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Socioeconomic factors influence children’s risk-taking, says BU study, and bad calls are not always the fault of poor judgment or lack of self-control
In a new study, researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have identified the structure of protein fibrils linked to a hereditary form of human prion disease.
Scientists at NYU have captured human neural activity in unprecedented detail by using medical data in ways to better understand how the brain works in the processing of visuals.