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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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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.
Johns Hopkins Medicine-led team has shown that d-limonene significantly reduces feelings of anxiety and panic, without altering the desired effect of THC, the active ingredient of cannabis.
Researchers from MIT and the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab used machine learning to improve safeguards on large language models.
A scholar of organizations looks at how the pressure to homogenize affects industries — including his own.