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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.
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As the number of infected cases due to fecal contamination continues to rise in Texas, technology developed at Texas A&M University could serve as a valuable tool in helping identify the source of the contamination if it is water-based.
University of Minnesota researchers are working together to design and develop smart technology that will more efficiently and cost-effectively lower sulfate concentrations in waters where wild rice like to grow.
Researchers have successfully stopped cocaine and alcohol addiction in experiments using a drug already approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat high blood pressure.
MIT PhD student Natasha Wright makes water safe to drink for rural, off-grid Indian villages by designed a village-scale desalination system that runs on solar power.
For the first time, a map of fecal viruses traveling our global waterways has been created using modeling methods to aid in assessing water quality worldwide.