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Study identifies potential new drugs that can help treat depression and anxiety disorders without many of the adverse effects of other medications currently under evaluation.

From leaks to weather to logistical concerns, there's a lot that can go wrong with a rocket launch. Here's why it has taken NASA so long to get its Mega Moon Rocket off the ground.

A new implantable pump system safely and effectively bypasses the blood-brain barrier to deliver chemotherapy drugs to those with glioblastoma brain cancer.

The anterior lateral motor cortex, an area of the brain associated with action planning, plays a major role in premature actions such as when a person "jumps the gun", or starts to run before a race starts.

Supercomputers are expensive to buy and run, but connecting up lots of consumer Apple computers that contain M1 chips may be able to do the same job for less

Researchers say up to 1 billion teens and young adults are at risk of hearing loss as a result of using headphones, earbuds, or attending loud music venues.

A new study reveals a link between fetal exposure to flame retardants and an increased risk of anxiety during adolescence. Researchers found the higher the levels of PBDE, a class of chemicals used in flame retardants, i...

Hormonal contraception disrupts signal transmission between cells in the prefrontal cortex of adolescents. Hormonal birth control also elevates levels of stress hormones in the brain.

Femtosecond pulsed lasers--which emit light in ultrafast bursts lasting a millionth of a billionth of a second--are powerful tools used in a range of applications from medicine and manufacturing, to sensing and precision...

Earth is about to pass through the debris trail left behind 30 years ago by comet Tempel-Tuttle. Here's how to catch the sky show.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of a star that hasn't yet finished forming, along with a disc of debris that may eventually become planets

Meteorites bombarding the Red Planet may have carried so much water that it could have covered the planet in a layer 300 metres deep if spread out, while also depositing molecules essential for life

A sense of purpose may have health-protective benefits including a decreased risk of cardiovascular disease and cognitive decline associated with aging.

The Garmin Index S2 smart scale is WiFi and Bluetooth-enabled, and easy to use -- but it under delivers for the high price.

Photographer Luigi Avantaggiato has documented the ways in which an Italian community has harnessed the geothermal energy in its area, in his project The Cloud Factory

The Hollywood A-lister endures a series of challenges in a bid to extend his life expectancy in this engaging documentary, from climbing 30 metres up a rope dangling over a canyon to fasting for four days

Vladimir Sorokin's dystopian fantasy is a wild read, mixing political satire with steampunk microstates and a must-have psychotropic drug based on tellurium

Relating mathematics to questions that are relevant to many students can help address its image problem, argues Eugenia Cheng

Companies such as IBM offer timeshare access to prototype quantum computers, but researchers have shown that they can access other users' data on these machines

Brazil's incoming president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva vowed to reverse the environmentally damaging policies of his predecessor in a speech at the UN climate meeting

A new method of using the machinery of photosynthesis to make methane is 10 times more efficient than previous attempts.

Kynurenic acid is made in the brain and could play a role in psychosis related to schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease and bipolar disorder - and new drugs may be able to reduce it