China moves first to regulate AI relationships, aiming to protect users from “digital companions”
A new legal push is China’s attempt to prevent the worst harms from AI companions, and it tests whether regulation can keep pace.

Loading briefings
Pulling the latest in this topic…
Research, space, health, climate, discovery
378 briefings briefings in Science
A new legal push is China’s attempt to prevent the worst harms from AI companions, and it tests whether regulation can keep pace.
A brief proton shift coordinates electron movement, then returns, dramatically improving triplet energy transfer for next-gen devices.
Genetic evidence shows melanoma spread between catfish, reshaping how regulators, labs, and boards think about contagious disease.
New aerial video points to a surprisingly practical purpose for a rare whale behavior, changing how scientists interpret maternal care.
After about 20 years on moorland near Eaglesham, the country’s largest wind farm heads into a modernization crunch.
Genealogy matched her family line to the cult leader, turning private questions into a public reckoning.
NASA’s Roman is ready to erase glare, directly image Jupiter analogs, and turn decades of exoplanet data into a new roadmap.
A small “helper” molecule blocks a resistance-linked enzyme, letting an old antibiotic punch back.
A boundary under Mars, decoded from NASA Insight seismic data, points to deep magma pooling.
A new cave-focused study ties Aboriginal oral traditions to long-running ritual practice, reshaping how we interpret “old” human behavior.
Phytolith evidence shows grass ash was made in repeating layers, extending ritual continuity far beyond earlier estimates.
NASA tracks brown carbon from July 14-20, 2026, and shows how smoke worsened air quality across the U.S. and Canada.