The Viking era lasted nearly three centuries (late 8th century to late 11th century) and had a profound impact on a wide variety of geographical areas, reaching across the known world of that time.

The next generation of prosthetics could soon feel far more natural to use. In a breakthrough study, researchers from the University of Utah have modified a prosthetic hand to include a neural network ...

Meet Fara-7B, Microsoft’s newest artificial intelligence. It’s a smart agent that can navigate the web on its own, handle simple online tasks, and even shop for you — all while keeping your data ...

What happened to cause a Boeing 787 to crash shortly after takeoff in India? Futura has ruled out some possibilities and points to a crucial factor that could explain the crash. On June 12, 2025, at 1 ...

The natural world has always fueled the myths and stories of Indigenous cultures. But what if some of those myths were inspired by animals that disappeared hundreds of millions of years before humans ...

Over the past few days, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has captured something striking on the Sun’s surface — a giant dark gap, or rather two of them, each stretching nearly 800,000 ...

What if one of the most powerful ways to slow cancer’s advance was already inside us—hidden within our own metabolism? A groundbreaking study from Yale University has explored how physical activity ...

Built in Naples during the Roman Empire, the Temple of Venus has long resisted the passage of time, and for centuries no one quite knew why. A new study of its materials now reveals the extraordinary ...

A modest cut in meat consumption could have massive effects on public health. According to new research, eating less meat could help prevent diabetes, heart disease, and colorectal cancer — ...

The Namib Desert, stretching along the Atlantic coast of southern Africa, isn’t just a vast, empty wasteland. A few years ago, archaeologists made an astonishing discovery there — a 16th-century ...

We often enjoy this fruit for its vivid color and tangy sweetness—but few realize it might also benefit metabolic health. Its antioxidants, once processed by gut bacteria, appear to turn into active ...

Artificial intelligence has done what decades of human effort couldn’t — it’s uncovered hundreds of massive, ancient designs hidden beneath the sands of Peru’s desert. These intricate figures, ...