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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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A paper published by researchers at UC Santa Cruz shows how deoxygenation of the world’s marine and freshwater ecosystems represents an additional planetary boundary that is critical to the integrity of Earth’s ecological and social systems.
MIT researchers have demonstrated a new wireless receiver architecture that can handle stronger spatial interference than previous designs.
Researchers from the University of Utah have highlighted the importance of maintaining regular sleep and eating schedules for better health, emphasizing the role of the body's circadian clock.
Researchers from the University of Utah have unveiled Lokiceratops rangiformis, a newly discovered species of horned dinosaur, at the Natural History Museum of Utah.
Researchers at Tufts University have identified the immune cells responsible for cardiac inflammation in cancer patients taking the chemotherapy drug doxorubicin.