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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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Research from Stanford economists finds that productivity has not matched the exponential increases in research development, suggesting the next big idea may be harder to formulate.
Two new studies from MIT and the University of Massachusetts Medical School shed more light on why mothers who experience an infection severe enough to require hospitalization during pregnancy are at higher risk of having a child with autism.
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Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have helped develop a new experimental vaccine against the second-deadliest parasite in the world, which has crept to within roughly 300 miles of the southern US border.
Researchers have developed a new tool for analyzing fossil DNA that may help advance the study of human evolution.
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Stony Brook University researchers are using 3D printers to recreate playable replicas of ancient wind instruments, including flutes, ceramic ocarinas, and whistles of different shapes and sizes.