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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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University at Buffalo biologist Shermali Gunawardena is looking for deeper explanations into the causes of Alzheimer’s and how this debilitating condition can be treated.
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Many children—mainly girls—simply aren’t taught or don’t learn the basic motor skills like throwing, running, jumping or dribbling, say University of Michigan researchers.
New CU Boulder-led research shows that three major “switches” affecting wildfire—fuel, aridity and ignition—were either flipped on and/or kept on longer than expected last year, triggering one of the largest and costliest U.S. wildfire seasons in recent decades.
Babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit slept better and woke up less often when they were played recordings of their mothers reading children’s books.
Unsatisfied with existing surgical simulation models, doctors at the University of Rochester developed a process for fabricating lifelike artificial organs, which would allow surgeons to practice complex cases in advance of the actual surgery.