1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (678+ words) Deciphering a single page of 12th-century Latin takes years of training. Transcribing a manuscript that runs several hundred pages can be a life’s work for a single researcher. Yet teams from Inria (the French Institute for Research in Computer Science…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (243+ words) Today, the Voynich text has been transcribed into a standardized form to allow computer-aided analysis. Inside: thousands of words constructed from a limited set of characters. Their distribution isn’t random. Certain terms crop up frequently, others only show up in…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (657+ words) Today, against all odds, some of these nearly-charred rolls can be deciphered anew—thanks to a fusion of cutting-edge AI and modern physics. A global effort is underway, with research teams from multiple universities, including the venerable University of Oxford,…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (239+ words) Geneticists and biologists analyzed DNA samples from various archaeological sites, stretching from southern Russia to eastern China. By comparing this genetic data with 130 years of linguistic research, they believe they now have a solid lead on how the first Indo-European…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (453+ 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…...