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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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Rochester psychologists make the case for an approach to FASD based on patients’ strengths rather than deficits.
Yale researchers have found a new way to leverage soft robotic technology to create a flexible, dextrous gripping device similar to the human hand.
In an unprecedented atlas, researchers begin to map how genes are turned on or off in different cells, a step toward better understanding the connections between genetics and disease
As many as one in five Americans suffer from chronic pain, an often intractable problem that costs the country more than $600 billion in treatments and lost work-time and has helped fuel a deadly opioid epidemic.
Researchers at University at Buffalo, Johns Hopkins, and UC Davis have leveraged the power of digital pathology and computational modeling to develop a new approach to detecting and quantifying podocytes, a kidney cell key to understanding renal disease
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