53+ min ago   (588+ words) The Futura Team represents the pulse of Futura’s editorial department, bringing together a collective expertise dedicated to the dissemination of scientific knowledge. Rather than the work of a single author, every article published under this signature is the result of…...

3+ hour, 48+ min ago   (319+ words) Dinosaurs are endlessly fascinating. After all, we’re talking about a group of animals that dominated the planet for more than 160 million years! Over time, they evolved and diversified into an incredible range of forms—from small, nimble, two-legged predators to…...

5+ hour, 22+ min ago   (299+ words) An international team of scientists conducted an innovative study on twelve healthy volunteers—five women and seven men—who underwent a seven-day water-only fast. For the first time, researchers could actually observe what unfolds at the molecular level in the…...

5+ hour, 44+ min ago   (376+ words) When a small group branches off from a larger population, it carries away only a fraction of the original genetic diversity; a phenomenon known as a founder event. To trace these events across history, researchers at UC Berkeley developed an…...

6+ hour, 21+ min ago   (460+ words) The Futura Team represents the pulse of Futura’s editorial department, bringing together a collective expertise dedicated to the dissemination of scientific knowledge. Rather than the work of a single author, every article published under this signature is the result of…...

19+ hour, 27+ min ago   (412+ words) The clearest evidence of this reversal came in 2018, when economists Bernt Bratsberg and Ole Rogeberg of the Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research published a landmark study in PNAS. Analyzing cognitive test scores from over 730,000 Norwegian men collected during mandatory…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (261+ words) Essentially, fingerprints are used to identify people—and since the early 1900s, detectives have made good use of them for solving crimes. But let’s not get too cynical: fingerprints have a role well beyond FBI files. So, why are the wrinkles…...

23+ hour, 20+ min ago   (288+ words) This mystery prompted the authors to examine the genetic material of 18 cows, sampled in 1992 and 2006, to trace the population’s origins and evolution. With so few founders, you’d expect inbreeding problems or a build-up of harmful mutations (or, conversely, their purging)....

1+ day, 20+ min ago   (431+ words) We have all been there. You call your cat. It does not move. Or worse, it looks at you, then turns its head away. As if it understands nothing. And yet, behind this apparent indifference, something much more precise may…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (657+ words) Today, against all odds, some of these nearly-charred rolls can be deciphered anew—thanks to a fusion of cutting-edge AI and modern physics. A global effort is underway, with research teams from multiple universities, including the venerable University of Oxford,…...