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3 days ago | 
zmescience.com | Alexandra Gerea |Tibi Puiu
If you’ve scrolled through TikTok in the last few years, chances are you’ve seen it. A handsome young person (usually a man), mouth closed, pressing his tongue to the roof of his mouth, claiming this one move can sculpt your jawline and change your life. This is “mewing,” and the man behind it—Dr. Michael Mew—has just been struck off the dental register in the United Kingdom. The decision, handed down by the General Dental Council (GDC), follows a years-long investigation into Mew’s practices.
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1 week ago | 
zmescience.com | Alexandra Gerea |Tibi Puiu
When the news flashes red with headlines about the stock market falling—or rallying—it’s easy to tune out. Maybe you’ve never bought a single share in your life. Maybe you don’t follow the S&P 500. But here’s the truth: whether stocks plunge or soar, the consequences ripple through your wallet, your job prospects, your retirement, and the entire economy. This isn’t just about investors and hedge funds. It’s your daily finances. Think your money is safe in a pension or retirement account? Think again.
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1 week ago | 
zmescience.com | Alexandra Gerea |Tibi Puiu
Artificial intelligence isn’t just powering search engines and chatbots—it’s increasingly guiding your financial life, especially your retirement planning. If you’re saving for the future, odds are good that AI is already involved in shaping your path, even if you don’t realize it. From robo-advisors suggesting your 401(k) allocations to algorithms forecasting your life expectancy, AI is transforming the way you save, invest, and retire.
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2 weeks ago | 
zmescience.com | Alexandra Gerea |Tibi Puiu
You’ve heard it a thousand times: sugar is terrible for your teeth. It really is. But are artificial sweeteners actually any better? The short answer? Yes—artificial sweeteners don’t feed the bacteria that cause cavities. But here’s the twist: many of the sugar-free products they’re used in can still damage your teeth in a different way—through acid erosion. Let’s break it down. Sugar is more than just empty calories—it’s the favorite fuel of harmful mouth bacteria like Streptococcus mutans.
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2 weeks ago | 
zmescience.com | Alexandra Gerea |Tibi Puiu
In the villages of rural India and the bustling lanes of its cities, a silent epidemic is unfolding—one that begins in the mouth and may end in the mind. A sweeping new study of nearly 57,000 middle-aged and older Indians has uncovered a troubling link between poor oral health and cognitive decline.
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2 weeks ago | 
zmescience.com | Alexandra Gerea |Tibi Puiu
Ever since tools like ChatGPT and DeepSeek hit the mainstream, they’ve shaken up everything from office tasks to art generation. Unsurprisingly, students quickly saw the potential — and began using AI to cheat on essays and exams. At first, it felt like a shortcut. But if AI can ace your test, what does that say about the test, or your future job? A recent University of Reading study showed that ChatGPT could answer modular exam questions so well that it often outscored real students.
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1 month ago | 
zmescience.com | Alexandra Gerea |Mihai Andrei
There’s a certain medieval charm to the idea of bathing in wine — decadent, indulgent, a ritual fit for a monarch with gout. But wine baths need a cold shower. The whole thing is as pointless as it is pricey. Behind the lush red hue and fruity aroma lies a simple truth: it’s a spectacularly waste of both wine and skincare. There is no painless way to say this: people are bathing in red wine. They pour it into tubs. They soak in it. They post it on Instagram.
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1 month ago | 
zmescience.com | Alexandra Gerea |Tibi Puiu
In the past few years, artificial intelligence has made stunning strides in generating images, so much so that it’s often hard to differentiate the real from the AI images. But if you’ve ever asked an AI to generate a non-square image—perhaps a widescreen portrait or a banner-sized artwork—you might have encountered some eerie artifacts. Sometimes, these are subtle shadows or bizarre colors, other times they are extra fingers, warped faces, and oddly duplicated objects.
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1 month ago | 
zmescience.com | Alexandra Gerea |Tibi Puiu
William Shakespeare gave the English language more than just poetic sonnets and tragic deaths. He also gave us some of the most delightfully vicious insults ever spoken onstage. These weren’t your average insults. Each jab struck at the core of a character’s personality or the tension of a scene. Many were funny. Some were deadly serious. But all of them show off Shakespeare’s unmatched flair for language — and for roasting people with it.
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1 month ago | 
zmescience.com | Alexandra Gerea |Tibi Puiu
Low back pain is one of the most common medical complaints in the world. Globally, over 600 million people suffer from it. That means at any given moment, millions of people are searching for relief—visiting doctors, trying alternative therapies, or popping painkillers. This has created an enormous industry that includes some questionable interventions. But what if most of these treatments don’t actually work? Seriously, if you feel like nothing is helping your back pain… you’re probably right.
