Mihai Andrei

1 week ago | zmescience.com | Mihai Andrei |Zoe Gordon

We could store information in ice for thousands of years — not with ink or electronics, but with air. By subtly changing the shape and placement of bubbles trapped as water freezes, scientists have discovered a way to encode messages that could endure as long as the ice itself. The study was Cell Reports Physical Science by Mengjie Song and colleagues at the Beijing Institute of Technology. It presents an entirely new way to store and retrieve information like Morse code or binary.

1 week ago | zmescience.com | Mihai Andrei |Zoe Gordon

Mega billionare, former First Buddy, and bullshitter extraordinaire Elon Musk desperately wants AI to agree with him. After seemingly forcing Grok, the AI chatbot behind X, to spew conspiracy theories about white genocide, he now wants the AI to lie once again. It all started with a tweet by Gunther Eagleman, one of the anonymous, far-right accounts that are dominating X nowadays. “JUST ANNOUNCED: Support for the violent Democrat Party has collapsed,” Eagleman tweeted.

1 week ago | zmescience.com | Mihai Andrei |Zoe Gordon

More than a century ago, a skull was pulled from a riverbank in northeastern China. For decades, it sat hidden in a well—forgotten, unknown. The man who found it feared it would fall into the wrong hands during the Japanese occupation. He also hid it from the Chinese Communist authorities. It was only in 2018, on his deathbed, that he revealed its secret. That cranium, nicknamed “Dragon Man,” was hailed as a momentous discovery.

1 week ago | zmescience.com | Mihai Andrei

There’s lots of science showing that working out is good for your brain. But there’s far less science comparing outdoor and indoor activity. A new study from researchers at Nottingham Trent University has found that outdoor physical activity significantly enhances cognitive performance in children compared to the same activity done indoors. Even short sessions — just half an hour — led to sharper attention, faster memory recall, and stronger mental control when conducted outside.

1 week ago | zmescience.com | Barbara Sahakian |Mihai Andrei

Anxiety disorders are the . But it isn’t always easy to get professional help, with long waiting lists in many countries. Worldwide, only about with anxiety receive treatment.This is due to a number of factors such as lack of resources, including mental health staff, and stigma associated with mental health problems. But if you’re struggling to get help, there are things you could try at home in the meantime – including some novel technologies.