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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 new study reinforces the need for surgeons and physicians to monitor patients' use of opioid painkillers following surgery and use alternative methods of pain control whenever possible.
According Stanford researchers, when Girl Scouts participated in energy-saving education programs, they improved their energy-use behaviors and influenced their families to do so as well.
Scott Grafton helps develop a theory of compound movement that highlights a tradeoff between efficiency and computational cost.
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Harvard researchers co-found SPOUTS of Water, a social enterprise that provides access to safe drinking water Ugandans.
A nuclear power plant that will float eight or more miles out to sea promises to be safer, cheaper, and easier to deploy than today’s land-based plants.