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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
3+ day, 17+ 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,…...
Three years ago the question at health psychology conferences was how to keep AI out of research, and at the European Health Psychology Society's 40th meeting in Pafos this September the programme was built around how to put it in, under a theme naming technology and AI outright
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (486+ words) The field went from trying to keep AI out of health research to building entire conferences around putting it in—and almost nobody noticed the shift. Published September 8, 2026 · How we edit The 40th annual meeting of the European Health Psychology Society…...
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, 8+ 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…...
In 2022, a 17-year-old built a $300 thought-controlled prosthetic arm; unlike very expensive and invasive brain-controlled systems, his version reads brainwaves through non-invasive electrodes
1+ week, 1+ day ago (329+ words) One arm is a research-lab masterwork that reads a wearer's intent and, in some setups, lets them feel through it. Published September 4, 2026 · How we edit We are not clinicians, prosthetists, or biomedical engineers, and nothing here is medical guidance. This…...
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…...
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…...
The Hawthorne effect is named after a pattern in 1920s factory lighting data that nobody checked against the records for eighty years — when two economists finally found the originals, the famous result was not in them
2+ week, 1+ day ago (190+ words) A foundational principle of modern management rests on factory data that was never actually verified—until economists finally checked the archives and found something entirely different. By The Long View Published August 28, 2026 · How we edit That idea, that people alter…...
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…...
Across roughly 1,000 languages, those that pack more information into each word tend to move meaning faster but cover less ground in conversation — suggesting the structure of a language changes the shape of what its speakers discuss
2+ week, 5+ day ago (1236+ words) A 998-language analysis linked denser word-level encoding with faster matched speech and narrower semantic paths in a 14-language conversation subset, without establishing causation. By Lab Report · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 25, 2026 · How we edit Translate the same passage into…...
The human brain is so desperate to find patterns that it will reliably see faces in clouds, hear words in static, and detect meaning in pure randomness, and there's a name for the glitch that makes it happen.
3+ week, 4+ day ago (259+ words) Our pattern-seeking brains are so hardwired for recognition that they manufacture faces from clouds, static, and toast—a quirk that once kept us alive but now plays tricks on us daily. Published August 19, 2026 · How we edit There’s a whole different…...