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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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Tom Iliffe, Professor of Marine Biology, Texas A&M University, has dived in hundreds of underwater caves hunting for new forms of life.
Researchers have found that chemotherapy treatments at specific times of day could hold the key to novel therapies for glioblastoma, the most prevalent type of brain cancer in adults.
New research uncovers an 87 percent increase in maternal deaths in Texas in recent years, but say some of the spike is attributable to overreporting and a flawed data collection system.
A physician-scientist at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix has received a grant to develop the first diagnostic test for schizophrenia.
Researchers at Stanford University are studying what role the mechanical properties of breast tissue, such as stiffness, play in promoting the progression of breast cancer.