Iran continues to face severe international sanctions, which complicate its access to global finance, limit oil exports, and slow down industrial partnerships. In this tricky context, each new ...

But a new study in Nature Communications is making headlines for opening up fresh possibilities. The researchers, led by Dr. Chul-Ho Lee and Dr. Yong-Hoon Kim from the Korea Research Institute of ...

Lead author Dr. Brian D. Nicholson and a team of researchers from the University of Oxford analyzed records from 28,204 women diagnosed with ovarian cancer in England between 2017 and 2021. Among ...

Cicadas are ectotherms (cold-blooded animals), which means their body temperature is controlled entirely by the surrounding air. To activate the super-fast muscles necessary to create their ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the past few years, astrophysicists have been stuck on a stubborn contradiction. Two different methods of measuring how fast the universe is expanding keep producing two different answers.

This led the European Reference Laboratory for Listeria monocytogenes (the bacterium behind listeriosis) to lower the test temperature for ready-to-eat food shelf life from 12°C (53.6°F) to 10°C (50°F ...

Aboard the research vessel Meteor, geophysicist Emanuele Lodolo noticed an unexpected structure on his sonar screen during a routine survey. Located less than four miles off Sicily's southwest coast, ...

Every two years, asteroid specialists from around the world gather for a fictional impact exercise. Each participant plays a specific role: government official, space agency rep, astronomer, or ...

Researchers have genetically modified NK cells to enable them to both kill cancer cells and evade the patient's immune system. © Ania, Adobe Stock (AI-generated ...

It is worth clearing out the myths, because most popular “hacks” have little to no evidence behind them: eating garlic, taking vitamin B, wearing repellent wristbands, and those satisfying bug-zappers ...