This Week in Science:

It’s time for NERD News! Covering the most important news for your brain that you might have missed. Here’s a quick rundown of . . . THIS WEEK IN SCIENCE: Let this factoid warp your mind for a minute . . . a study found potatoes and tomatoes are related. A wild tomato apparently hooked up with a potato-like plant nine million years ago, and THAT’S where modern-day potatoes came from.