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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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With a brief glance at a single face, emerging facial recognition software can now categorize the gender of many men and women with remarkable accuracy. But if that face belongs to a transgender person, such systems get it wrong more than one third of the time, according to new CU Boulder research.
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and Baylor College of Medicine have developed a new preoperative test for thyroid cancer that is faster and about two-thirds more accurate than the diagnostic tests doctors use today.
University of Southern California scientist and colleagues identify new species of giant flying reptile similar to the largest pterosaurs known. Key characteristics were gleaned from a cache of bones unearthed in Canada.
Neuroscientists had thought parts of the brain associated with reading and face recognition shrunk as children grow. In fact, research from Stanford University shows they may be growing electrical insulation that makes their brains more efficient.
New imaging technique developed by BU, MIT researchers can detect more individual brain cells firing in the brain than ever before