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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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An international team of scientists has found the first evidence of a source of high-energy cosmic neutrinos, ghostly subatomic particles that can travel unhindered for billions of light years from the most extreme environments in the universe to Earth.
USC researchers developed a smart insole that will flag changes in a patient’s gait, activity level and balance, as well as monitor for the localized increase in heat that can reveal a building infection before the human eye can spot it.
Eligible patients are increasingly facing longer waits for operations proven to help them safely lose weight that endangers their health, such as bariatric surgery, according to a new study published in the Annals of Surgery.
For early kidney cancer patients, robotic partial nephrectomy offers significantly better patient outcomes, according to a comprehensive study by the Keck School of Medicine of USC.
Researchers have identified 22 known pharmacologically active compounds and FDA-approved drugs that are effective against advanced prostate tumor cells.