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People are falling in love with AI companions that remember their lives, flirt back and are always available to talk — researchers studying these relationships have found users forming intense emotional bonds and treating the bots like romantic partners

2+ hour, 14+ min ago   (255+ words) When the AI they loved stopped being themselves overnight, users experienced grief indistinguishable from losing a real person—raising urgent questions about emotional authenticity in the digital age. Published September 13, 2026 · How we edit In February 2023, Replika users woke up to…...

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A 58-year-old lecturer who had published no original work in 12 years, and who had spent years keeping the books at a friend's Subway sandwich shop, mailed a paper to the Annals of Mathematics on April 17, 2013. Just over a month later it was accepted: pairs of consecutive primes less than 70 million apart occur infinitely often.

16+ hour, 44+ min ago   (342+ words) An obscure adjunct, working at a Subway while publishing nothing, solved a centuries-old problem that had defeated the world's elite mathematicians. By Science Blog Editorial Team Published September 12, 2026 · How we edit By the time he submitted, he had published no…...

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Slime mould has no brain, no neurons and no central control, yet when scientists placed food at 36 locations matching cities around Tokyo, it grew a network strikingly similar to the rail system — with comparable efficiency, cost and resilience

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (462+ words) A single-celled organism with no brain solved a transportation puzzle that took human engineers decades to perfect. Published September 9, 2026 · How we edit A brainless yellow blob spread across a wet plate in a Japanese lab and, meaning nothing by it,…...

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A data center in Denmark gives away heat that data centers often waste. It runs water from the city's heating network through its cooling units and into heat pumps that raise it enough to fill the radiators of 11,000 homes

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (616+ words) As data centers consume ever more power, one facility in Denmark shows how to turn a costly cooling problem into a heating solution for thousands of households. By Science Blog Editorial Team · Edited by Mal James Published September 7, 2026 · How we…...

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A 75-year-old Kentucky farmer rejected $8 million for his 250-acre farm — more than four times what land sells for in his county. The data-centre developers came back with a new proposition: name your price. His answer was that there isn't one.

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (576+ words) One man's refusal to sell is exposing the hidden machinery behind Big Tech's land grab in rural America. By Science Blog Editorial Team · Edited by Brendan Brown Published September 3, 2026 · How we edit The offers started arriving in Mason County, Kentucky,…...

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Too old to learn something new? The evidence says otherwise, and the belief itself is part of the problem

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (547+ words) ScienceBlog.com is an independent daily science news publication covering peer-reviewed research across all major scientific disciplines. Founded in 2002, it is one of the longest-running science news sites on the internet. It curates and reports on breakthroughs from universities, research…...

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Meta is reportedly testing robots inside its data centres that can swap networking cables and restart servers—and one worker estimates a successful cable-swapping robot could automate up to 80 percent of some technicians’ workloads.

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (751+ words) The reported robots range from button pressers to supervised cabling pilots. The 80 percent figure is one worker's conditional estimate, not a measured result or Meta staffing target. By Science Blog Editorial Team · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 31, 2026 · How we…...

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A $200 ChatGPT Pro subscription could represent as much as $14,000 a month in equivalent API-priced usage if pushed to its limits, according to SemiAnalysis — a striking illustration of how heavily flat-rate AI plans can subsidise their biggest users

2+ week, 15+ hour ago   (236+ words) The economics of unlimited AI subscriptions are imploding: power users are extracting tens of thousands of dollars in value from plans that cost mere hundreds. By Lab Report · Edited by Mal James Published August 29, 2026 · How we edit The gap grows…...

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Integrity does grow in families, but not the way strong family principles suggests

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (593+ words) ScienceBlog.com is an independent daily science news publication covering peer-reviewed research across all major scientific disciplines. Founded in 2002, it is one of the longest-running science news sites on the internet. It curates and reports on breakthroughs from universities, research…...

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Being smart does not protect you from bias, and can quietly make it worse

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (591+ words) ScienceBlog.com is an independent daily science news publication covering peer-reviewed research across all major scientific disciplines. Founded in 2002, it is one of the longest-running science news sites on the internet. It curates and reports on breakthroughs from universities, research…...