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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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The isolation and social restrictions associated with the COVID-19 pandemic hit extroverts especially hard, but those same individuals high in extroversion developed novel strategies that helped them feel happier than those who didn’t find alternatives to socializing, according to a new University at Buffalo study.
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Keck School of Medicine of USC researchers conducted the first study that measured U.S. adolescents’ use of a new class of flavored, non-tobacco oral nicotine products.
To understand how queen ants live much longer than workers, researchers look at the role of insulin and an insulin-suppressing protein
Yale scientists have developed a novel Omicron-specific mRNA vaccine, called Omnivax, that offers superior immune protection against two viral subvariants than standard mRNA vaccines.
A new study from the University of Kansas found that students initially choose based on their social networks. That self-sorting, however, has the potential to push some students, most often women, from undergraduate programs.