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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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Johns Hopkins engineers, in collaboration with researchers from Harvard and Princeton, discovered that fish in schools reduce their energy expenditure by up to 79% compared to solitary swimmers.
MIT researchers have developed a groundbreaking method, known as IF-COMP, that improves how AI models gauge their confidence in decisions, making predictions more reliable and trustworthy.
MIT researchers examined how large language models fare with variations of different tasks, putting their memorization and reasoning skills to the test. The result: Their reasoning abilities are often overestimated.
UC Santa Cruz researchers have laid out the foundation for their highly-anticipated upcoming study of how lack of affordable housing in urban areas of California may be driving increased development in and near wildlands, leading to more severe climate change impacts.
A research team led by a University of Utah Health researcher has used a precise method of brain imaging to unveil how different parts of the brain work together in order to produce creative thought.