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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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In a new study of patients with retinitis pigmentosa, an inherited degenerative eye disease that results in poor vision, University of Southern California researchers found that adapted augmented reality glasses can improve patients’ mobility by 50% and grasp performance by 70%.
MU scientists created one of the first 3D models showing how ligaments and joints in the skull of a Tyrannosaurus rex work
A new technique from Stanford University employs a bright infrared light that can pass through millimeters of tissue to illuminate tumors deep inside the body.
A fundamental discovery made with a specially equipped microscope in a University of Oregon laboratory is pointing toward a new design strategy for devices that can produce hydrogen from sunlight.
Working with a clinical radiologist, USC computer scientists combined visual effects techniques and medical imaging to create precise model of the human hand in motion.