Zoe Gordon

3 days ago | zmescience.com | Tibi Puiu |Zoe Gordon

The Isle of Skye is the largest and northernmost of the major islands in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. And here, archaeologists have found signs of a journey that defies expectation. Thousands of years ago, long before the invention of farming or even before Stonehenge rose from the Salisbury plain, a band of hunter-gatherers arrived at what was then the edge of the known world.

3 days ago | zmescience.com | Tibi Puiu |Zoe Gordon

On a crisp morning, a woman stepped off a plane, scanning the arrivals lounge for her husband. He’d been her partner for three decades. And yet, when he waved, smiling warmly, she walked right past him. Not out of distraction or fatigue—but because she couldn’t recognize his face.

6 days ago | zmescience.com | Mihai Andrei |Zoe Gordon

For centuries, alchemists have dreamed of turning lead into gold. At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), they’ve finally managed to do it. There were no spells and no magic elixirs. It was just high-speed lead ions, flying and nearly the speed of light and barely missing each other. Although it lasted for only a fraction of a second, a team of physicists has now observed and measured this modern-day transmutation.

6 days ago | zmescience.com | Tibi Puiu |Zoe Gordon

Chinese scientists fed a string of genetic code into an artificial intelligence model. What came out looked like a face — a strikingly realistic, three-dimensional face. No photograph had ever been taken. No sketch artist had drawn it. The only source was DNA. In a new study out this week, the researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences unveiled a powerful new tool called Difface, capable of reconstructing lifelike 3D human faces from genetic information alone.

6 days ago | zmescience.com | Tibi Puiu |Zoe Gordon

Living beside a golf course might sound attractive at first glance — at least compared to the busy racket of urban life. But new research suggests that living near a golf course may come with an unexpected cost: a significantly higher risk of Parkinson’s disease.