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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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It can be demoralizing for a person to work in a climate of repetitive skepticism and doubt about what they know, a new study shows.
When the brain has trouble filtering incoming information and predicting what’s likely to happen, psychosis can result, Stanford Medicine-led research shows.
Researchers at MIT and LBNL have come up with a computational basis for designing very simple, streamlined versions of sensor setups that can pinpoint the direction of a distributed source of radiation.
Sequencing of full-length viral RNA reveals molecular-level effect
A chemical modification in the HIV-1 RNA genome whose function has been a matter of scientific debate is now confirmed to be key to the virus’s a
Women are at higher risk of death when undergoing heart bypass surgery than men, and researchers at Cornell have determined that this disparity is mediated, to a large extent, by intraoperative anemia – the loss of red blood cells during surgery.