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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 at Buffalo-led research team is creating a new cancer-spotting tool that health care providers could eventually use in areas that lack hospitals, clinics and other treatment centers.
An individual's genetic risk of obesity was lessened by one extra year of high school in a recent USC study, meaning genes alone do not determine who will become obese.
The Penn State Consortium to Combat Substance Abuse will bring together experts from across Penn State to combat the opioid crisis through data-driven, evidence-based innovation.
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In a study with mice, University of Minnesota Medical School researchers have shown that a natural product found in many fruits and vegetables has significant positive effects on health and lifespan.
Computers that can detect patterns in data could catch two to seven times as many environmental violations as current approaches, according to Standford University researchers.