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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 the the University of Southern California found that identifying a metastatic colorectal cancer patient’s Consensus Molecular Subtype (CMS) could help oncologists determine the most effective course of treatment.
CU Boulder researchers have developed a new approach to designing more sustainable buildings using bacteria to develop building materials that live and multiply
Making great-tasting espresso shot after shot is within grasp, thanks to new findings by an international team of scientists that includes University of Oregon.
An effort at Stanford University to thwart viral diseases like hepatitis or the common cold led to a new collaboration and a novel class of cancer drugs that appears effective in mice.
In the largest study of its kind to date, Stanford University researchers have shown that women related to a patient with a breast cancer caused by a hereditary mutation — but who don’t have the mutation themselves — have no higher risk of getting cancer than relatives of patients with other types of breast cancer.