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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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New research at CU Boulder could reveal new clues to how the interaction between species drives the evolution of ocean animals over millions of years.
Researchers across multiple institutions are studying "super-puff" planets - the lowest density exoplanets ever discovered beyond Earth’s solar system.
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A recent pair of studies from the University of Texas at Austin, New York University, and Columbia univeristy have found that the sons of women with obesity before and during pregnancy had lower developmental and IQ scores in early and middle childhood.
Scientists at CU Boulder are using a type of material called liquid crystals to create incredibly small, swirling schools of “fish.”
Over the past year, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe came closer to the sun than any other object designed and developed by humans—and CU Boulder scientists have been along for the ride.