Futurity NewsBacteria Sorry, Darwin, but bacteria don’t compete to survivefuturity.org - Michael Skov Jensen-Copenhagen “Survival of the friendliest” outweighs “survival of the fittest” for groups of bacteria, according to new research. The research reveals that …
Futurity NewsScience How old is the ice on the moon?futurity.org - Kevin Stacey-Brown While a majority of the icy deposits on the moon are likely billions of years old, some may be much more recent, according to new research. The …
Futurity NewsScience Amoebae teamed up to form world’s oldest slime moldfuturity.org - Kristin Strommer-Oregon Slime has been present on Earth for almost 2 billion years, according to a reassessment of fossil evidence. The new research confirms that a fossil …
Futurity NewsEnvironment Right whales ‘whisper’ to their kids to avoid predatorsfuturity.org - Tim Lucas-Duke As new moms, North Atlantic right whales “whisper” to their young calves to avoid attracting predators, according to a new study by The whales, which …
Futurity NewsScience Submarine canyons aren’t the same as those on landfuturity.org - Danielle Torrent Tucker-Stanford Submarine canyons are surprisingly and fundamentally different from ravines on land, researchers report. Submarine canyons are a final frontier on …
Futurity NewsDogs Genes partially explain dog breed behaviorsfuturity.org - Katherine Unger Baillie-Penn Some of the behaviors that help characterize dog breeds—a drive to chase, for example, or aggression toward strangers—are associated with distinct …
Futurity NewsScience Virtual town sheds light on how our brains perceive placesfuturity.org - Carol Clark-Emory The human brain uses three distinct systems to perceive our environment, according to new research. There’s one system for recognizing a place, …
Futurity NewsScience Putting a meniscus on micropillars could cool electronicsfuturity.org - Beth Miller-WUSTL A new study shows how the shape of nanostructures affects how well they retain water and heat. As our electronic devices get more sophisticated, they …
Futurity NewsScience 4D printing makes lattice that turns into a facefuturity.org - Boston University A new 4D-printing technique uses latticework composed of multiple materials that grow or shrink in response to environmental changes, finally making …
Futurity NewsScience Typing speed on mobile is catching up to keyboardsfuturity.org - ETH Zurich Typing speed on mobile devices is catching up to that of physical keyboards, a study of more than 37,000 users shows. The research also finds that …
Futurity NewsScience Light-up tattoos use electronics printed right onto skinfuturity.org - Ken Kingery-Duke A new print-in-place technique for electronics is gentle enough to work on delicate surfaces including paper and human skin, researchers report. The …
Futurity NewsScience Floating galaxy’s radio burst sheds light on galactic halosfuturity.org - U. Washington The signal from a fast radio burst—an enigmatic blast of cosmic radio waves lasting less than a millisecond—is helping researchers characterize the …
Futurity NewsScience Our skulls fit DaVinci’s ‘golden ratio’futurity.org - Johns Hopkins University The Golden Ratio, which Leonardo da Vinci and Luca Pacioli described as the Divine Proportion, is an infinite number often found in nature, art, and …
Futurity NewsSpiders Listen: Expert debunks scary myths about spidersfuturity.org - NC State Spiders have a special place in Halloween lore, but they’re more than just scary, hairy, creepy crawlers to entomologist Matt Bertone. “[M]ost spiders …
Futurity NewsScience ‘Personalized DJ’ plays songs to match your moodfuturity.org - Molly Dannenmaier-UT Austin Machine learning can act as a “personalized DJ,” creating ultra-personal music playlists that adapt to each user’s changing moods, researchers report. …
Futurity NewsScience Why are there no animals with three legs?futurity.org - Andy Fell-UC Davis The answer to why there aren’t any animals with three legs may be at the core of animal evolution, a new essay argues. Tracy Thomson, graduate student …
Futurity NewsAsymmetry Could this nanorod discovery lead to purer meds?futurity.org - Mike Williams-Rice It may become possible to sense the handedness, or chirality, of single proteins, research suggests. That would be a boon for pharmaceutical companies …
Futurity NewsScience Can social media predict when you’ll die?futurity.org - Boston University Social media platforms like Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook collect a staggering amount of data points from us, so much data that our social media …
Futurity NewsScience WiFi system identifies people through walls by their walkfuturity.org - Sonia Fernandez-UCSB A new system uses video of a person walking to identify that person through walls using two WiFi transceivers. This novel video-WiFi cross-modal …
Futurity NewsScience Sensors ready to monitor bridges during hurricanesfuturity.org - National Science Foundation Researchers are starting to gather real-time data on how waves and rising water affect bridges during hurricanes. Civil engineering professor Jennifer …
Futurity NewsChemical Engineering Electron switch may get us closer to quantum computersfuturity.org - Lindsey Valich-Rochester A new method of relaying information by transferring the state of electrons moves scientists one step closer to creating fully functional quantum …
Futurity NewsGalaxies Giant black holes and their galaxies grow up side-by-sidefuturity.org - Jim Shelton-Yale The special relationship between supermassive black holes and their host galaxies begins early in the galaxy’s formation, according to new …
Futurity NewsCulture These self-employed jobs face highest risk of A.I. takeoverfuturity.org - Kevin Manne-Buffalo Self-employed people who work in some of the most popular—but lowest paid—occupations have the greatest risk of losing their job to artificial …
Futurity NewsAlbert Einstein How an eclipse proved Einstein’s theory of relativityfuturity.org - Kevin Stacey-Brown A new book tells the stories of astronomers who worked for a decade to get images of a solar eclipse. The work ultimately showed Albert Einstein’s …
Futurity NewsScience The evolution of learning could boost A.I.futurity.org - Jessi Adler-Michigan State The evolution of learning could help lay groundwork for better artificial intelligence. “We know that all organisms are capable of some form of …
Futurity NewsScience Early hardships of baboon moms take a toll on kidsfuturity.org - Robin Smith-Duke For baboons, the impact of early adversity doesn’t just fall on one generation—the next generation bears the brunt as well, according to new research. …
Futurity NewsVirtual Reality We don’t need to move to learn virtual reality spacesfuturity.org - Alexis Blue-U. Arizona We may not need to move our bodies to learn about new spaces in virtual reality, new research indicates. Virtual reality is becoming increasingly …
Futurity NewsScience Findings cut estimated mass of a neutrino in halffuturity.org - James Urton-Washington New findings cut the mass range for the neutrino by more than half. The estimated range for the rest mass of the neutrino is no larger than about 1 …
Futurity NewsScience How T. rex’s 6-ton bite didn’t break its own skullfuturity.org - Eric Stann-Missouri Tyrannosaurus rex skulls were stiff like those of hyenas and crocodiles, not like those of snakes and birds, research suggests. T. rex could bite hard …
