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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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Giving birth at home is the most significant risk factor for neonatal deaths in major sections of Africa – a continent that continues to be plagued by the highest neonatal mortality rates in the world, indicates a new study by Michigan State University scholars.
New research by Stanford psychologists finds that people are willing to offer more money to others who display similar emotional expressions and that those expressions are even more powerful factors than race or sex.
Boston University researcher Michael Dietze uses predictive models to see how ecosystem change affects tick populations and tick-borne diseases that highly impact military bases in the United States.
Case Western Reserve University researchers have trained a deep-learning computer network to identify breast cancer in whole biopsy slides.
Drone deliveries emit less climate-warming carbon dioxide pollution than truck deliveries in some — but not all — scenarios, according to researchers at the University of Washington.