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3 days ago | 
zmescience.com | Tudor Tarita |Tibi Puiu
In a brightly lit Manhattan clinic, CassieAnn peered into a mirror and saw blue eyes staring back at her. For years, she had worn colored contact lenses to achieve that look. But now, the change was permanent. “I always wanted to have a little bit of change when it comes to the eyes,” she told Salon.
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4 days ago | 
zmescience.com | Tudor Tarita |Tibi Puiu
At just three millimeters long, the newest addition to science’s catalog of life is easy to miss. But when a team of malacologists stumbled upon the minute snail in a Thai national park, they noticed something remarkable—a twist of geometry that seemed to echo the bold distortions of Picasso himself. They named it Anauchen picasso. The snail’s shell defies the smooth spirals we associate with its kind.
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4 days ago | 
zmescience.com | Tudor Tarita |Tibi Puiu
Under the haze of anesthesia, some patients undergoing surgery experience something you wouldn’t expect in this tense setting — vivid, sometimes disturbing sexual fantasies. In rare but striking cases, these dreams and hallucinations have blurred the lines between reality and delusion, leaving behind confusion, distress, and in some instances, legal fallout.
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4 days ago | 
zmescience.com | Tudor Tarita |Mihai Andrei
In the shrouded forests of the Annamite Mountains, along the border of Vietnam and Laos, lives — or perhaps once lived — one of the world’s rarest mammals. It’s a creature so rare that even its existence is a matter of debate. It has never been seen in the wild by a scientist. Only a few camera trap photos and bones traded among hunters proove that it was ever there at all. Locals call it the saola. Scientists call it Pseudoryx nghetinhensis.
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5 days ago | 
zmescience.com | Tudor Tarita |Mihai Andrei
In the shrouded forests of the Annamite Mountains, along the border of Vietnam and Laos, lives — or perhaps once lived — one of the world’s rarest mammals. It’s a creature so rare that even its existence is a matter of debate. It has never been seen in the wild by a scientist. Only a few camera trap photos and bones were traded among hunters offer as proof that it was ever there at all. Locals call it the saola. Scientists call it Pseudoryx nghetinhensis.
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5 days ago | 
zmescience.com | Tudor Tarita |Mihai Andrei
In London’s Imperial War Museum, a team staged a curious experiment: they fed a modern AI the problem that haunted Alan Turing during the darkest days of World War II and get a result in the time it takes to have a cup of coffee. This is a reminder of how far computing has come. But it’s also a big question mark for where encryption goes from here on. The Enigma machine, with its three rotating rotors and a labyrinthine plugboard, was Nazi Germany’s pride.
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6 days ago | 
zmescience.com | Tudor Tarita |Tibi Puiu
Somewhere in a lab, a Tyrannosaurus rex is being brought back to life—not as a living, breathing beast, but as a handbag (Slay king!). A trio of companies—creative agency VML, genome engineering firm The Organoid Company, and tissue-engineering startup Lab-Grown Leather Ltd.—recently announced a project that seems rather science fiction. They plan to create a new kind of lab-grown, eco-friendly leather, modeled on the collagen of the most iconic predator to ever walk the Earth: Tyrannosaurus rex.
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1 week ago | 
zmescience.com | Tudor Tarita |Tibi Puiu
The cartoon dragon wore a crisp suit, its arms folded with authority. It graced every page of a federal court complaint like a mythical partner in the firm. But Judge Ray Kent was not amused. “Use of this dragon cartoon logo is not only distracting, it is juvenile and impertinent,” the magistrate judge of the Western District of Michigan wrote in an April 28 court order. “The Court is not a cartoon.”That stern declaration marked the climax of a surreal legal moment in East Lansing, Michigan.
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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.
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1 week ago | 
zmescience.com | Tudor Tarita |Mihai Andrei
High in the Caucasus Mountains, buried beneath the cold floor of a limestone cave, archaeologists have found something small, sharp, and quietly revolutionary. It is just about 9 centimeters long (3.5 inches) long—a polished shard of bone, shaped into a streamlined point, darkened by fire, and bearing faint traces of sticky tar. But this unassuming piece was once hafted to a wooden shaft, as part of a spear, and hurled towards unfortunate prehistoric creatures.
