4+ hour, 8+ min ago   (557+ words) The fastest way to tell them apart is not the colour. It is whether the legs have tufts of hair at the joints. Late summer and early autumn are when these spiders become impossible to miss. The females reach full…...

4+ hour, 32+ min ago   (435+ words) China’s “Great Green Wall” project aimed to transform the arid Mongolian steppe, targeting the advancing sands of the Gobi and Taklamakan deserts. The ambition? To halt desertification and boost the country’s ability to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Since…...

4+ hour, 4+ min ago   (480+ words) They are not looking for food, they will not breed indoors, and nothing you failed to clean brought them here. From early September through October, brown marmorated stink bugs stop feeding on plants and start looking for somewhere to spend…...

3+ hour, 32+ min ago   (388+ words) Led by Nicola Aceto at ETH Zurich, alongside collaborators from University Hospital Basel and University Hospital Zurich, the pilot clinical trial tested the cardiac medication in nine women with metastatic breast cancer. The findings highlight an unconventional strategy: targeting how…...

4+ hour, 10+ min ago   (498+ words) A pink noise track playing all night does not do this. The effect depended entirely on when the sound arrived. Cerebrospinal fluid is the clear liquid that surrounds the brain and spinal cord. During non-REM sleep it moves through the…...

3+ hour, 50+ min ago   (307+ words) In the United States, a research team has developed a smart ring designed for daily biochemical monitoring. What makes this device stand out? It can analyze multiple biomarkers present in your sweat—simultaneously and continuously. That’s not your run-of-the-mill fitness…...

4+ hour, 10+ min ago   (537+ words) The bird it came from belonged to a group that died out completely. That is what makes the feather worth something. David DeMar was working the Hell Creek Formation in Montana when he picked up a small round lump of…...

21+ hour, 59+ min ago   (508+ 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…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (371+ words) The phrase implies a place. The evidence now describes a continent-wide network of populations that kept separating and reconnecting. Search for the cradle of humanity and you will be offered a coordinate. Over the past decade the candidates have included…...