Mihai Andrei

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

Around 300 million years ago, long before dinosaurs ruled the Earth, the Carboniferous period teemed with strange and giant life forms. Towering plants filled swampy forests, amphibians slithered across soggy ground — and massive arthropods like Arthropleura roamed the land. This colossal, millipede-like creature stretched over two meters in length, making it the largest land-dwelling invertebrate ever discovered.

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

In early 2025, UK insurers paid a record £226 million in weather-related home insurance claims in just three months. The storm Eowyn battered Ireland and Scotland, knocking out power to nearly a million homes. This marked the eighth consecutive quarter where property claims exceeded £100 million ($133 million USD). The UK isn’t an exception. Across the Atlantic, Texas homeowners are facing a 43% surge in insurance premiums since 2023.

1 week ago | zmescience.com | Mihai Andrei

The state of the planet is often told in soundbites. A species saved (or extinct) here; a forest burned there. Some glacier collapsed, some renewable energy growth. But behind these bite-sized headlines lies a deeper, more disquieting truth: much of the world’s living fabric is unraveling quietly, systematically, and largely out of view. We all hear about climate change and plastic pollution, and they’re big, important stories. But here’s what you don’t usually read about in the news.

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

The sidewalks are usually among the first to crack. The streetlights tilt, ever so slightly. You can barely even see it with the naked eye. Some brick walls can splinter, but even if they do, most homeowners just chalk it up to age. But in cities across the US, this has a common cause: subsidence. According to a sobering new study published in Nature Cities, all of the 28 most populous cities in the United States are all experiencing land subsidence.

1 week ago | zmescience.com | Tudor Tarita |Mihai Andrei

On a hilltop in the Austrian village of St. Thomas am Blasenstein, inside the cool stone crypt of a modest church, a priest has been resting nearly 300 years. His name was Franz Xaver Sidler von Rosenegg, and though he died in 1746, his torso looks eerily intact—skin taut, body walls preserved, death frozen mid-century. He has become known as the air-dried chaplain. But it wasn’t dry mountain air that kept him whole. It was something a tad stranger.