8+ hour, 43+ min ago   (398+ 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…...

9+ hour, 41+ min ago   (608+ 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+ day, 1+ hour ago   (734+ words) A ceiling fan doesn’t work the same way as an air conditioner. It doesn’t actually create cold air or lower the actual temperature in the room. Its job is to circulate the air gently and consistently, creating a broad, soft…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (452+ words) The machine fuses atoms and consumes vastly more energy than it releases, and both of those things are true at once. Aiden McMillan became interested in nuclear fusion at eight years old. He then spent two years reading and running…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (453+ words) Nineteen miles and thirty-five days are the numbers that travelled. The number the authors handle most carefully is how little dye came back. On the morning of 19 September 2017, a diver in Lake Jackson, north of Tallahassee, ran a hose about…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (265+ words) To solve the problem, researchers at the University of Hong Kong looked where everyone else had stopped. They found a fix by exploiting the unique carrier dynamics inside everyday silicon carbide transistors. Led by Professor Yuhao Zhang and PhD student…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (253+ words) A study published in Cell Reports Physical Science by lead author Behnood Bazmi and senior author Nenad Miljkovic at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign demonstrates a practical engineering solution. Rsearchers designed pure copper cold plates using topology optimization algorithms, and…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (571+ words) Research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests the answer hinges largely on what other students are doing. When everyone else is using AI, saying no starts to look like letting your own kid show up…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (933+ words) It’s true: electronic signatures save heaps of time. But – and this is a pretty big but – the level of legal protection in the event of a dispute depends entirely on the method you choose. So, how does the magic happen?...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (511+ words) The finding is not about the water in the pond. It is about the narrow strip of ground around its edge, and how it is mown. Friendswood, Texas, sits about twenty miles inland from Galveston Bay, in a part of…...