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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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Just outside Washington, DC, a heavily armored truck, protected by armed guards, rumbles toward the Pentagon. Its cargo is critical to keeping the most sensitive government communications secret. But it’s not what you might expect. That precious cargo is nothing but numbers.
Florida researcher reduces space and reorganizes how crops are laid-out in method he calls “compact bed geometry” and grows same amount of vegetables with same amount of water, less loss of fertilizers and less need for pesticides.
For the second year, the University is hosting a cybersecurity camp for high school students through a program sponsored by the National Security Agency and the National Science Foundation.
Researchers from the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences at Ohio State University train thousands of Ohio farmers how to keep nutrient runoff from fertilizers, especially phosphorus, out of Ohio’s waters.
Applying mild electrical stimulation to an area of the brain associated with cognitive control helps people with schizophrenia to recognize errors and adjust their behavior to avoid them as much as it helps healthy subjects do so, according to a new study by Vanderbilt psychologists.