Science & Technology

While research has revealed that children and adults hospitalized with COVID-19 are more susceptible to developing long COVID symptoms, a new study found that children infected with COVID-19, but not hospitalized, still experienced long COVID symptoms …

Civil and environmental engineers have formulated a method to predict human movement during large-scale extreme events with the goal of enabling more effective emergency responses. The model also revealed great disparity in movement among different eco…

With bulging eyes, an elongated mouth and feet that oozed resin, a newly identified fossil insect is so different from anything alive today that it needed to be placed in its own, extinct family.

Leisure activities, such as reading a book, doing yoga and spending time with family and friends, may help lower the risk of dementia, according to a new meta-analysis. The meta-analysis reviewed available studies on the effects of cognitive activities…

Quality of life is a measure of a person’s level of comfort, health and happiness. For people with multiple sclerosis (MS), a new study has found there are specific factors that may affect a person’s physical and mental quality of life.

Nicotine activates the dopamine reward network in the brain, but at high doses it also activates a parallel aversive dopamine network. This discovery and identification of the nicotine receptor responsible for the negative effects of high-dose nicotine…

A new study creates a method to efficiently calculate quantum phase transitions and could unlock the door to new technological breakthroughs.

New research sheds light on how a certain kind of pattern in nature arises.

Racial and ethnic minorities bore a disproportionate mental health burden during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study.

The number of privately insured adults in the United States prescribed opioid medications for cancer pain and for chronic non-cancer pain declined between 2012 and 2019, according to a new study.

An analysis of scholarly research papers published in the last 50 years provides new insights into trends in research productivity, highlighting an overall increase in productivity and a worldwide gender gap.

Neuroscientists have documented a link between spatial and verbal reasoning by scanning students’ brains while taking a course that emphasized spatial learning.

Researchers have developed a technique to 3D-print materials with customizable mechanical properties that can also sense how they are moving and interacting with their environment. Their method only requires one printing material and a single run on a …