Science & Technology

Researchers are combining psychological principles with innovative virtual reality technology to create a new immersive therapy for people with substance use disorders.

The more hours someone works each week in a stressful job, the more their risk of depression rises, a study in new doctors finds. Working 90 or more hours a week was associated with changes in depression symptom scores three times larger than the chang…

Researchers argue that they have found evidence of the use of baby carriers 10,000 years ago at the Arma Veirana site in Liguria, Italy.

The American Heart Association has created new registry will help researchers, clinicians and regulators to better understand the clinical symptoms of shock types, treatment patterns and outcomes. The registry will provide a foundation for working towa…

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a lush, highly detailed landscape — the iconic Pillars of Creation — where new stars are forming within dense clouds of gas and dust. The three-dimensional pillars look like majestic rock formations, but…

Hotter Iraqi summers could make dangerous heat commonplace for millions of Shia Muslim pilgrims according to a new study.

Results of a retrospective study of 26,000 patients show that receiving a third dose of the vaccine was associated with 80% reduction in overall COVID-19 and 100% reduction in severe course of the infection or death.

Researchers publish the three-dimensional structure of the B cell antigen receptor, shedding new light on its composition

Astronomers have found a way to determine an asteroid’s interior structure based on how its spin changes during a close encounter with Earth. The tool may improve the aim of future asteroid-targeting missions.