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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.
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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.
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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.
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1 week ago | 
zmescience.com | Mihai Andrei |Zoe Gordon
A recession happens when the economy slows down. People lose jobs, prices rise, and spending drops. This affects us in all sorts of ways, including one unexpected place: fingernails.
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1 week ago | 
zmescience.com | Mihai Andrei |Zoe Gordon
Each morning, billions of people reach for that familiar cup of Joe. The aroma of coffee fills kitchens all around the world and for many people, morning doesn’t start without a cup. For many, it’s comfort. For others, caffeine. But a new study suggests it might also be something more profound: a subtle boost to longevity — so long as you keep it simple.
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1 week ago | 
zmescience.com | Mihai Andrei |Zoe Gordon
Archaeologists working in northern England have made an unusual find in the boggy remains of a Roman fort trench. They’ve discovered a shoe; not just any shoe — a leather sole so large (32 cm) it would fit a modern U.S. men’s size 14. Preserved in the depths of a defensive ditch, this nearly 2,000-year-old find offers a rare and personal glimpse into the lives of those stationed at the edges of an empire. It also hints at one giant soldier.
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1 week ago | 
zmescience.com | Tibi Puiu |Zoe Gordon
The rocky hills of Ithaca, home to olive groves and old Greek legends, have now yielded their most evocative secret: the possible sanctuary of Odysseus. At a site known for over two centuries as the “School of Homer,” archaeologists have unearthed compelling evidence of a hero cult that persisted for more than a thousand years — dedicated to the mythological king of Ithaca himself and protagonist of Homer’s Odyssey.
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1 week ago | 
zmescience.com | Mihai Andrei |Zoe Gordon
A team of restoration workers in Dijon, France, pulled up a section of stone flooring inside the Church of Saint Philibert and found a staircase that wasn’t on any of the plans. It was just one of the many surprises the church had to offer. What started as routine repairs soon turned into a full archaeological excavation, revealing a 400-year-old burial vault — and then tombs, churches, and sarcophagi spanning more than a thousand years of history.
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1 week ago | 
zmescience.com | Tibi Puiu |Zoe Gordon
In the rarefied world of bleeding-edge performance, where milliseconds separate the sublime from the merely fast, one British outfit just lobbed a lightning bolt into the EV arms race. RML Group, best known for building precision machinery that blends heritage curves with modern muscle, has unveiled a battery that recharges in less time than it takes to read this paragraph. It’s called VarEVolt. It doesn’t just sip electrons — it slams them down like a double espresso shot at the Nürburgring.
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1 week ago | 
zmescience.com | Mihai Andrei |Zoe Gordon
In recent years, we’ve gotten much better at fighting cancer — if it’s detected early. But some cancers can sneak up and grow for years without showing any symptoms. This is where the new blood test comes in. Researchers were surprised to see they could detect signs of cancerous tumors in the bloodstream so much earlier. “Three years earlier provides time for intervention.
