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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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Are infants with ASD listening? An early sign of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in children is a reduced response to "motherese" speech and challenges in sustained attention to social information in general.
Yale University researchers, in collaboration with experts at Penn, have developed a novel lyme vaccine tested in guinea pigs. The vaccine, offering protection against infection by the bacterium that causes Lyme disease, may also combat other tick-borne diseases.
Award winning Florida team comes up with a project designed to tap into tidal energy. They conducted a study that called for the installation of 10 tidal turbines off the coast of Jacksonville and found that as many as 4,000 homes could be powered per year.
Like humans, wild animals often return to the same places to eat, walk on the same paths to travel and use the same places to raise their young - called site fidelity. That might cause problems in an ever-changing landscape dominated by humans, per UW experts.
Magnets and superconductors don’t normally get along, but a new study shows that ‘magic-angle’ graphene is capable of producing both superconductivity and ferromagnetism, which could be useful in quantum computing.