While the humanoid gestation robot proved fake, researchers continue to advance genuine ectogenesis technologies in laboratory settings. In 2017, researchers at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia ...
The group measured nickel isotopes preserved in thin clay layers deposited at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary, collecting samples from sites in Denmark, Spain, and Italy. They compared these ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
The South Atlantic Anomaly sits off the coast of South America, spanning the ocean between Brazil and southern Africa. Within this geographic zone, Earth’s protective magnetic field drops well below ...
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 ...
Red dwarfs are cooler and fainter than our sun. As a result, LHS 1140 b receives only 42% of Earth’s radiation, despite orbiting closer than Mercury. That keeps it squarely in the habitable zone, ...
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 ...
Global sea levels could rise by as much as 6.2 feet by the end of this century under a high emissions scenario. That upper limit, calculated by researchers from Nanyang Technological University and ...
In Jurassic Park, the fictional company InGen succeeds in recreating several dinosaur species by extracting DNA from prehistoric insects trapped in amber. Missing bits of DNA are patched up with ...