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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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Losing a loved one to drug overdose has been a common experience for many Americans in recent years, crossing political & socioeconomic divides & boosting the perceived importance of the overdose crisis as a policy issue, according to new research by Johns Hopkins.
Culminating 25 years of research, MIT, Harvard University, and Yale University scientists and collaborators have unveiled a newly complete database of human protein kinases and their preferred binding sites provides a powerful new platform to investigate cell signaling pathways.
Researchers at the University of Notre Dame are developing artificial intelligence tools that help consumers understand how they are being exploited as they navigate online platforms.
A study by MIT scientists offers a new picture of glacier flow, based on microscopic deformation in the ice. The results show that a glacier’s flow depends strongly on how microscopic defects move through the ice.
MIT researchers have developed a technique that uses generative AI models to combine robotics data from various sources, enabling robots to learn more effectively by integrating diverse datasets, including color images, tactile imprints, simulations, and human demonstrations.