Tail fossil may prove swimming dinosaurs did exist

Fossils from Spinosaurus aegyptiacus may be "smoking gun" evidence it lived in the water. That could upend the idea that there were no swimming dinosaurs.

Jim Shelton-Yale • futurity
May 6, 2020 ~7 min

The ‘queen of supernovas’ is the brightest ever

Researchers have discovered the brightest supernova ever seen, dubbing it the "queen of supernovas," It's twice as bright as a regular supernova.

Ida Eriksen-U. Copenhagen • futurity
April 15, 2020 ~5 min


‘Warm glow’ drives more charity than altruism

Charity appeals that focus on donor emotions work better than that focus on the desire to help, research finds.

Jack Wang- U. Chicago • futurity
Dec. 17, 2019 ~4 min

Laser beams in plasma clarify path toward fusion

Knowing how laser beams interact in a plasma—a hot soup of free moving electrons and ions—will boost the accuracy of computer models used in simulations of laser-driven implosions.

Lindsey Valich-Rochester • futurity
Dec. 10, 2019 ~5 min

Should targeted groups reclaim slurs to neutralize them?

"When a group is seen as taking control of a historically disparaging term, it can indeed neutralize the insulting content of the term,"

Neil Schoenherr-WUSTL • futurity
Nov. 18, 2019 ~4 min

Infections during pregnancy may hamper fetal brain development

Infections during pregnancy are a risk factor for offspring developing disorders like schizophrenia and autism. Now researchers have figured out why.

Mathias Traczyk-Copenhagen • futurity
Oct. 31, 2019 ~4 min

Gas ‘waterfalls’ fill gaps from forming planets

Gas from the upper reaches of the protoplanetary disk flows in to fill gaps that forming planets create near nearly formed stars, research finds.

Morgan Sherburne-Michigan • futurity
Oct. 21, 2019 ~5 min

Earth’s ‘fingerprint’ could help find habitable exoplanets

A new "biosignature" for our own planet may help astronomers find exoplanets that could support life—or other worlds that already do.

McGill University • futurity
Aug. 28, 2019 ~5 min


Garlic oil beats antibiotics at killing Lyme bacteria

"…these essential oils were even better at killing the 'persister' forms of Lyme bacteria than standard Lyme antibiotics."

Barbara Benham-Johns Hopkins • futurity
Dec. 4, 2018 ~5 min

Two Milky Way satellite galaxies once collided

New evidence indicates that the two nearby galaxies smashed directly into each other a few hundred million years ago.

Morgan Sherburne-Michigan • futurity
Nov. 2, 2018 ~6 min

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