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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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Stanford University researchers found that scooping the guts out of bacteria and refilling them with an expansive fluid, scientists can discover whether a microbe is structurally strong or weak, gaining insights that could help fight infectious diseases or aid studies of the beneficial bacterial communities known as microbiomes.
University of Missouri researcher uses sweat monitors to predict behavioral issues in adolescents severely affected with autism
In a novel approach that could help reduce carbon emissions, a team of scientists led by Stony Brook’s Anatoly Frenkel have described a way to use artificial intelligence (AI) to facilitate the conversion of carbon dioxide (CO2) into methane.
A new way to convert carbon dioxide into the building block for sustainable liquid fuels was very efficient in tests and did not have the reaction that destroys the conventional device.
A preventive treatment developed by Stanford researchers could greatly reduce the incidence and severity of wildfires