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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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Researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine have proposed a novel approach to address the kidney donor shortage by using kidneys from deceased donors who were on dialysis.
A new study from MIT suggests the general public and policymakers alike take leaders’ social media posts just as seriously as they take formal government statements.
Researchers at the University at Buffalo are investigating the use of shear-thinning hydrogels (STH) for stem cell therapy to treat neurological diseases like multiple sclerosis (MS).
Researchers from MIT, Columbia University, and NTU Singapore, have discovered a new link between malaria parasites’ ability to develop resistance to the antimalarial artemisinin (ART) through a cellular process called transfer ribonucleic acid (tRNA) modification.
Dr. Lisa Lattanza, Chair and Ensign Professor of Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation at Yale, performed Yale's first fully in-house 3D surgical procedure.