2+ day, 16+ 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, 13+ hour ago   (510+ 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…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (430+ words) The whole case for the largest marine reptile ever described rests on fragments of a single bone from one side of one jaw. Recovering the rest took until October 2022. What emerged was a surangular, a curved bone that forms the…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (260+ words) Rather than viewing words as passive labels for existing thoughts, cognitive scientists and computer engineers now treat language as the foundation of thought itself. If a biological or artificial network lacks the specific vocabulary for a concept, its ability to…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (527+ words) Most of the silver in the pot had been deliberately cut to pieces, and that damage is the most informative thing about it. The find weighs 40.8 pounds and contains roughly 700 objects and fragments. Nordjyske Museer, the regional museum body that…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (291+ words) The dry stone bridge spans 25 feet (7.7 meters) across a subterranean basin and consists of large limestone blocks stacked without mortar. Prehistoric inhabitants constructed the walkway to cross a cave lake, securing safe and dry access to inner chambers containing reliable…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (428+ words) The stone defeated a rock saw, a drill and a sledgehammer, and that resistance was the first real clue to what it was. In May 2015, a prospector named David Hole was sweeping a metal detector through open box-ironbark forest about…...

6+ day, 12+ hour ago   (656+ words) Despite its familiar name, the Midas Tumulus is not believed to contain King Midas himself. Instead, evidence points to the burial being that of his father, Gordias, with the monument possibly commissioned by Midas after his father’s death. Kadim Koç,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (537+ words) For decades, archaeologists have puzzled over a strange phenomenon: skeletons stripped bare by time, with only one soft and unlikely survivor remaining, the brain. Now, a team of researchers says it has finally uncovered the chemistry behind this mystery. It…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (583+ 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…...