23+ hour, 29+ min ago   (344+ words) When the fossil was first spotted on Seymour Island in 2011, no one knew what it was. The structure was flattened and paper-thin, unlike the rigid shells typically preserved in the fossil record. For years, it resisted classification. Nearly a decade…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (389+ words) Today, this quest continues at places like CERN with the LHC (the Large Hadron Collider)—whose digital detectors led to the 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson, the last missing piece of the standard model of particle physics. Some negatives reveal…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (391+ 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…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (435+ words) “We have to understand the complexity of medieval combat; it’s not a simple process,” Patrick Randolph-Quinney, a biological anthropologist at Uppsala University in Sweden, said during a research presentation on August 5 at the 25th European Paleopathology Association meeting in Berlin. The…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago   (236+ words) El Niño and La Niña represent opposite extremes of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, or ENSO. Under neutral conditions, steady trade winds blow westward across the equator, pushing sun-warmed surface water toward Indonesia and pulling cool, nutrient-rich water up along the…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago   (449+ words) Each smartphone, satellite, or medical device relies on measurements of mind-blowing precision. Quantum metrology harnesses the power of quantum physics to achieve levels of accuracy that traditional techniques simply can’t match. This is the quiet discipline determining the reliability of…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (301+ words) The meteorological winter officially kicks off in France on December 1st. Looking three months ahead, it’s obviously impossible to provide precise weather forecasts. Still, seasonal outlooks already give us a sense of the larger trends that could play out across the…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (386+ 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…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (453+ words) The debut of the J-36 marks nothing short of a revolution for Chinese naval aviation. This sixth-generation stealth jet isn’t simply flexing its tech muscles with speed and power. Its real headline act? The unprecedented ability to safely land on a…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (279+ words) NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) caught the first faint dips in light as TIDYE-1b crossed its star every 8.83 days. To confirm the signal against the background noise of a volatile young star, Barber’s team used a specialized algorithm named…...