"Meaning-oriented music therapy is suitable for cancer patients in China and may considerably improve their mental health states and quality of life. The low-cost, (probably) side-effect free and easily applicable approach is usually highly appreciated by patients." Qi Mao, Wolfgang Mastnak et al. show in a new study "the importance of holistic and systematic intervention to treat psychological distress of cancer patients."

Human beings live and die between this world and the beyond. Michael Imhof, physician and philosopher, reflects on this arc of tension in his monograph Man Between Physics and Metaphysics, Volume 3 of the series Philosophy of Medicine and of the Human Being.

American science took a beating this year, with cuts to funding, jobs and credibility. And yet, scientists persisted and made progress. These advances in 2025 spotlight how crucial it is to support biomedical research — and how much of an impact it can have on people’s lives.

Since the release of Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation and the call for “phone-free schools,” a plethora of states (18 plus DC to be exact) and a continually growing number of foreign countries have responded favorably. Thanks to the research and model policies of the Phone-Free Schools Movement, millions of young people are now able to better focus on the hard work of learning without being distracted by the latest TikTok reels or YouTube Shorts.

The limits of of language and understanding are often unconscious, yet always risky. Therefore, language alone is frequently insufficient in psychotherapy, Enila Ataie and Alfred Pritz reflect in a new study: "Psychotherapy on a Global Scale".

Advanced civilizations on every continent have developed their own psychologies. In his “World History of Psychology,” Hannes Stubbe describes the diverse, often incompatible, creative developments that have taken place over the centuries. In the long term, however, the empirical approaches of the Greek physician Aristotle have prevailed worldwide – and have been further developed in some cases and narrowed in others in forms of Anglo-American-European psychology.

A new study hints that age-related changes in our brains may explain why time feels like it's slipping away faster with every passing year.

When someone's heart stops beating, their brain cells start dying within minutes. But sometimes, they can still come back from the dead.

A mixed methods study found statistically significant positive correlations between alterocentric business ethics and financial performance, Dr. Burkard Schemmel reports in ´European Journal of Management, Leadership and Health´.

"The study´s cluster analysis shows that 90% of companies expect economic impacts from alterocentric business models, indicating a general acceptance of ethical business values among European organizations. Qualitative outcomes identified implementation mechanisms: positive stakeholder relationships, enhanced organizational/operational reputation, engagement of employees, and mitigation of regulatory exposure.

Is there a scientific reason why the universe exists? In other words, what is the science of why there is anything at all, instead of only nothing?

The answer has to do with opposites. Scientists have found that the universe exists because it began with a slight imbalance between matter and antimatter. Particles of matter — that is, all of the electrons, protons and neutrons in the atoms and molecules of regular stuff — differ from particles of antimatter, which carry the opposite electric charge but are similar in many ways.