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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 of researchers at The University of Texas at Austin aims to address the high costs and other factors limiting the widespread adoption of smart windows by developing a new type of electrochromic device using low-cost, sustainable materials like amylose.
The opioid epidemic in the United States has caused a severe health crisis, leading to over 100,000 drug overdose deaths in 2022 . Researchers from Notre Dame and the University of Toronto have explored the origins and impacts of this epidemic, focusing on its health and political consequences.
Two projects have been awarded funding through Princeton’s Eric and Wendy Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund.
New research led by the University of Washington analyzes the most recent ice age, when a large swath of North America was covered in ice, to better understand the relationship between CO2 and global temperature.
The warming of the planet is causing a year-round, worldwide trend toward more intense but less frequent rainfalls, a dynamic that will increasingly impact plants worldwide, according to a University of Maryland-led study.