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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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Salmonella is acting up in Michigan, and it could be a model for what’s happening in other states, according to a new Michigan State University study.
Boston University researchers are studying how to curb household lead contamination stemming from construction sites
A new study by Stony Brook University researchers shows that evolution can exploit positive feedback (PF) within cells to restore gene function.
Head and neck injuries incurred while driving or walking with a cellphone are on the rise – and correlate with the launch of the iPhone in 2007 and release of Pokémon Go in 2016, a Rutgers study found.
Researchers at Stanford and UCSF slowed the spread of a type of nonsmall cell lung cancer in mice by neutralizing a single protein that would otherwise set off a chain reaction, causing runaway tumor growth.