Human Intelligence Just Got Weirder—Neurons Store Memories Without Context
For decades, scientists thought they had memory all figured out—at least the rodent version. Rats, it seemed, stored memories like meticulous little librarians, linking every experience to its specific context. Find a piece of cheese in one corner of a maze? That’s...
Lost Roman City Survived the Empire’s Collapse—And Just Changed History
Turns out, Rome didn’t burn in a day. Beneath the dirt of central Italy, archaeologists have unearthed a ghost town that refused to die, rewriting everything experts thought they knew about the Empire’s fall. Interamna Lirenas—once dismissed as a failed...
The Genetic Code of Craving: Why Labradors (and Humans) Can’t Stop Eating
Some creatures are simply built for hunger. Scientists studying British Labradors have unearthed a handful of genes that crank up appetite and pack on extra pounds. The twist? These same genes lurk in human DNA, quietly nudging some people toward an unshakable...
Quantum Spies Uncover the Hidden Chaos in Magnetic Materials
A billionth of a meter. That’s the scale where things stop making sense—where particles jump between states like indecisive politicians and materials flip identities in a quantum masquerade. Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory just cracked open a new way to...
This Molecule Builds Impossible Patterns—Like a Sci-Fi Reality Glitch
Mathematicians and tile enthusiasts have spent centuries obsessing over which shapes can cover a plane without gaps or repetition. Turns out, nature might have beaten them to it—on a molecular scale. A group of chemists just found a molecule that spontaneously...