For years, scientists have been puzzling over what look like traces of old Martian coastlines. Several geological features seem to sketch out the outline of ancient shores—but there’s a twist. These ...

In recent years, he has written extensively about cities and how metropolitan areas can be adapted to climate change—first for Leonard, Vinci Group’s urban innovation hub, and later for Envies de ...

Memory loss is the hallmark symptom of dementia, but neurologists are identifying a less obvious precursor that can appear years earlier: apathy. Defined as a sustained reduction in motivation and ...

For generations, historians have put Mesopotamia at the heart of civilization, where the first farming villages appeared following the development of agriculture in the Fertile Crescent. This region ...

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 ...

Rather than being a clever survival tactic, tonic immobility may simply be a form of “evolutionary baggage” – a behavior that may once have had a purpose but still survives today in some species ...

My passion for programming began with my very first computer, an Amstrad CPC 6128. I started coding in Basic, then moved on to Turbo Pascal on a 286, eventually exploring more modern languages ...

Waking up in a pool of sweat isn’t just an annoying inconvenience. Specialist organizations like Cancer Research UK point to excessive night sweats as a possible symptom linked to certain types of ...

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 ...

Science journalist, I am above all passionate about space, which is what inspired me to pursue this specialty. Drawn to science in general, I also closely follow news related to the environment and ...

James Church developed the sampler during the winter of 1908–1909. While he taught Latin and German at the University of Nevada, Reno, his winter expeditions into the Sierra Nevada were driven by a ...

The moon’s phases look different across hemispheres too. In the Northern Hemisphere, the lit portion grows from right to left each month. In the Southern Hemisphere, it grows from left to right.