2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (389+ words) Today, this quest continues at places like CERN with the LHC (the Large Hadron Collider)—whose digital detectors led to the 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson, the last missing piece of the standard model of particle physics. Some negatives reveal…...

2+ day, 19+ 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…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (487+ words) The fifteen feet is what came out of the ground. The animal it came from was around three times that length. The Sedgwick County 4-H geology group was on private land in Jewell County, in north-central Kansas, on a field…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (555+ words) The 2008 study he was copying contains one detail that decides whether this experiment works at all, and it is about timing. Jo Nagai started hand-raising Asian swallowtails in Kobe, Japan, as a second grader. When he released them, they did…...

2+ day, 19+ 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…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (434+ words) There is no blue pigment anywhere in the animal. The colour is produced by the shape of its hairs. A team from Khon Kaen University went into the mangroves of Phang-Nga province, in southern Thailand, at night and at low…...

3+ day, 17+ 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…...

3+ day, 16+ 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, 16+ 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…...