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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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A team led by scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Vanderbilt University offer a possible answer to one of the oldest questions about evolution: why some species are generalists and others specialists.
Researchers led by Princeton will help identify new buckyball-like molecules, formed in space, which “drive the chemistry of planets and stars and galaxy formation."
A new study by UC Santa Cruz researchers provides in-depth analysis of the evolution and impact of malware attacks on Ukraine's power grid.
University of Rochester researchers studied Earth’s magnetic field during the transformative Ediacaran Period, raising questions about factors that may have fueled the emergence of complex, multicellular organisms, such as Ediacaran fauna, notable for their resemblance to early animals.
A University at Buffalo-led research team has found that, indeed, some of the same genes whose mutations gave rise to a low functioning male gorilla reproductive system may also be responsible for human male infertility.