Iran continues to face severe international sanctions, which complicate its access to global finance, limit oil exports, and slow down industrial partnerships. In this tricky context, each new ...

Researchers have genetically modified NK cells to enable them to both kill cancer cells and evade the patient's immune system. © Ania, Adobe Stock (AI-generated ...

Lead author Dr. Brian D. Nicholson and a team of researchers from the University of Oxford analyzed records from 28,204 women diagnosed with ovarian cancer in England between 2017 and 2021. Among ...

Every two years, asteroid specialists from around the world gather for a fictional impact exercise. Each participant plays a specific role: government official, space agency rep, astronomer, or ...

For the past few years, astrophysicists have been stuck on a stubborn contradiction. Two different methods of measuring how fast the universe is expanding keep producing two different answers.

Red dwarfs are cooler and fainter than our sun. As a result, LHS 1140 b receives only 42% of Earth’s radiation, despite orbiting closer than Mercury. That keeps it squarely in the habitable zone, ...

Cicadas are ectotherms (cold-blooded animals), which means their body temperature is controlled entirely by the surrounding air. To activate the super-fast muscles necessary to create their ...

Aboard the research vessel Meteor, geophysicist Emanuele Lodolo noticed an unexpected structure on his sonar screen during a routine survey. Located less than four miles off Sicily's southwest coast, ...

Keep expectations realistic: fragrant plants are a helpful backup, not a force field. The real defense is an unappealing kitchen, so cover the fruit bowl, take out the trash promptly and seal your ...

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 ...

From the discovery of penicillin to the first man on the Moon and the invention of the Internet, what was the most remarkable event of the last century? This was the question asked to 8,000 people ...

This led the European Reference Laboratory for Listeria monocytogenes (the bacterium behind listeriosis) to lower the test temperature for ready-to-eat food shelf life from 12°C (53.6°F) to 10°C (50°F ...