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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 University of Colorado, Boulder team may at least have partly explained how soil-dwelling bacterium quells stress-related disorders, and brings researchers one step closer to developing a microbe-based “stress vaccine.”
University of Oregon researchers have found a clue that points to the magnitude of an emerging megaquake.
Pitt researchers found that one way to help "break the spell of craving" may be as simple as sniffing a pleasant aroma.
University of Colorado, Boulder researchers have built a tiny robot that can navigate the squishy and often-unpredictable terrain of the intestine, which could one day make colonoscopies easier for patients and more efficient for doctors.
Researchers at the Ohio State University have created the world's first high-resolution maps of points around the globe where groundwater meets the oceans.