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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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Researchers at Purdue University have created a baby robot to study what a baby inhales as its crawls.
The Western New York community has enlisted experts from the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences to help combat the national opioid epidemic, which has reached crisis proportions.
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A Michigan State University researcher is providing new insight into how certain types of stress interact with immune cells, ultimately causing physical symptoms and disease.
Researchers are the University of Michigan are developing a complex camera that has the potential to help doctors get a clearer, more accurate look at the human eye.
Tom Iliffe, Professor of Marine Biology, Texas A&M University, has dived in hundreds of underwater caves hunting for new forms of life.