Science news and updates from Sabine Hossenfelder. As simple as possible, but not any simpler.
This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - New Nuclear Fusion Record at NIF! Can laser fusion break even?5:28 - The USA is crumbling at the bottom and sinking10:05 - Gravity might be a force after all15:11 - Black Holes might turn into White Holes, and make up dark matter, physicists say
This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - AI is too nice -- but it has a bigger problem5:27 - Trump's Science Cuts Might Have an Unexpected Benefit11:27 - Four Starlink Satellites Fell From The Sky Each Day, Creating New Worries17:12 - Chinese claim "First Successful Factorization of RSA-2028 Integer". I've had a look.
This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - AI is too nice -- but it has a bigger problem5:27 - Trump's Science Cuts Might Have an Unexpected Benefit11:27 - Four Starlink Satellites Fell From The Sky Each Day, Creating New Worries17:12 - Chinese claim "First Successful Factorization of RSA-2028 Integer". I've had a look.
This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - Meet the Reactors Set to Upend Nuclear Fusion5:59 - The AI Revolution Hiding in Obscure Research11:37 - The Next Clean Fuel Hype Is Likely Ammonia16:56 - This correction of Einstein's theory fixes black holes
This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - "Impossible" Device Creates Free Electricity from Earth's Magnetic Field5:25 - Researchers find major clue to consciousness10:49 - Did One Single Neutrino Just Prove Stephen Hawking Right?15:57 - There's Helium in Earth's Core, Researchers Say21:08 - My Take On Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - New Research Reveals How AI “Thinks” (It Doesn't)5:02 - Is CERN's $40 Billion Mega-Collider Already Doomed?10:57 - Nuclear Renaissance? Or Just Wishful Thinking?15:50 - The Entire Universe Seems to Spin, New Data Reveal
This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - Amazon's Quantum Breakthrough That Everyone Missed5:27 - First Nuclear Fusion Rocket Design Unveiled11:27 - Why US Professors are talking about fascism17:45 - We Already Have Evidence Of Dark Matter, Researchers Say
This is our weekly ad-free compilation of science news.00:00 - Latest Data Challenges 25 Years of Cosmology6:09 - Sabotage AI Research, Google's Ex-CEO Recommends11:37 - New Nuclear Waste Battery Can Run For 5000 Years16:54 - US Military Wants to Grow Biological Structures in Space22:05 - Cosmology Crises are only Getting Worse27:45 - Huge Structures Discovered Under Pyramids?
This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - Atomic Anomaly Confirmed! Evidence for a “dark force”?5:22 - Dark Matter Could Be Due to Extra Dimensions11:23 - China Will Soon Lead World in Science and Tech16:49 - The Path to AGI is Coming Into View
This is our weekly compilation of science news00:00 - Einstein-Tile Discovered in Nature5:47 - Is AI the Solution for Quantum Computing? 11:18 - China Discovers 60,000-Year Supply of Thorium16:42 - This Simple New Experiment Could Find First Evidence for Quantum Gravity
This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - Microsoft's Topological Qubits Probably Don't Exist, Researchers Warn6:58 - Scientists Misreport Climate Cause of LA Wildfires13:01 - Is Gravity Quantum? New Experiment Could Test Oppenheim's Bold Alternative18:26 - Magnetic Charges Could Actually Exist, Physicists Find24:02 - Time can run in two directions, new research finds
This is our weekly ad-free compilation of science news.00:00 - Earth's Magnetic Field has a Hole, and it's changing5:20 - AI Gets Rapidly Smarter, And Makes Some of Us Dumber11:58 - Our Universe Has Two Different Sides, Physicists Confirm17:15 - Geothermal Energy is Looking Better Than Ever
This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - Trump and Musk Take On Academia6:16 - Large Hadron Collider can reveal how Universe Will End, New Director Says12:24 - 37 Dimensional Quantum Paradox To Improve Quantum Computing21:14 - Microsoft Reports Quantum Computing Breakthrough26:43 - No Audible Boom from First Test Flight of Supersonic Passenger Plane
This is our weekly compilation of science news00:00 - “I'm pretty terrified by the pace of AI development” says OpenAI researcher who left company6:17 - A Big Nuclear Bomb Could Fix Climate Change, Physicist Says11:53 - This New Idea Could Explain the Laws of Nature17:20 - What's Different About Helion Energy, the Nuclear Fusion Startup Backed by Sam Altman?
This is our weeklycompilation of science news00:00 - Sam Altman Thinks We Need To Change Our Social Contract6:00 - The Wave-function of the Universe Might Finally Be Calculable12:52 - Everyone Is Giving Up On Climate Goals17:59 - Good news for faster-than-light travel. Bad news for time travel.
This is our weekly compilation of science news. 00:00 - AI Super Agents are coming. Allegedly. What does this mean? 6:42 - The Case for String Theory Just Got Stronger 11:37 - Did DeepSeek burst the AI bubble or will the Stargate Project make it worse? 17:38 - Countries sign up for vaccines against bird flu in humans. 22:46 - New startup wants to build a conscious quantum computer
This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 - There's a Third Type of Particle and We Never Knew 6:22 - What Everyone Gets Wrong About AI 13:43 - Fact Check: Did Physicists Really "Quash" the Multiverse Idea? 20:01 - A New Ice Age For Europe Is Becoming More Likely
This is our weekly compilation of science news. 00:00 - Physicists Say They Know How Cold Fusion Works 5:57 - Climate Engineering Is Coming, But Not Like You Think. 11:39 - Physicists Claim This $2 Billion Experiment Can Tell Us Why We Exist 17:16 - New Study Finds Alien Life Must Be Similar To Us
This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 - Will We Get AGIs in 2025? 8:30 - String Theory is Falsifiable After All, String Theorists Say 14:00 - The Trouble with Carbon Dioxide Removal 19:26 - Have Researchers Found The First Evidence For String Theory?
This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 - Civilization as we know it is ending, prominent forecaster says 6:00 - Dark Energy Is Not Real, New Data Analysis Finds 23:03 - Climate Scientists Are Very Confused 17:57 - Quantum Hype Goes Crazy. But Why? 26:00 - Hydrogen Hype is Dying, And That's a Good Thing
This is our weekly compilation of science news. 00:00 - Scientists Uncover Hidden Pattern in Quantum Chaos 5:21 - This Firm Says It's 6 Years Away From Making Energy From Fusion 11:24 - Physicists Claim They Solved Schrödinger's Cat Problem 16:46 - Jeff Bezos' Space Plans Make More Sense Than Elon Musk's
This is our weekly compilation of science news. 00:00 - AIs Predict Research Results Without Doing Research 5:29 -Universe Had Two Big Bangs, Physicists Say 11:03 - Our Sun Can Make Superflares Once a Century, Study Finds 16:12 - This Physics Problem is Unsolvable
This is our weekly compilation of science news. 00:00 - Quantum Computing Is Dangerous and Must Be Regulated, Scientists Warn 5:30 - Moore's Law is So Back 11:40 - This Theory of Everything Actually Makes a Prediction: New Physics in Black Holes 17:50 - Life Began Much Faster Than We Thought
This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 - AI Could Make Quantum Computing Obsolete, Nobel Prize Winner Says 6:57 - We've Been Searching For Aliens All Wrong, Researchers Say 12:37 - Huge Physics Anomaly Finally Put to Test, But That Just Makes it More Confusing 18:15 - The Crisis in Cosmology Just Got So Much Worse
This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 - AI Scaling Hits Wall, Rumours Say. How Serious is it? 6:16 - New Calculation Finds we are close to the Kessler Syndrome 12:00 - "Moral Panic" over Social Media Causing Mental Health Problems in Children 18:04 - Webb Falsified Dark Matter Prediction – And No One Cares 23:25 - Physicists Changed Their Mind about Dark Matter Particles 29:29 - We are unlikely to be in this universe, new study finds. Multiverse falsified?
This is our weekly ad-free compilation of science news 00:00 - New Theory: Dark Energy Might Be Black Holes 5:16 - This New Energy Storage Idea Makes A Lot Of Sense 10:22 - AI Scaling Hits Wall, Rumours Say. How Serious is it? 16:38 - New Calculation Finds we are close to the Kessler Syndrome
This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 - Scientists Discover a Law of Natural Laws 5:21 - The Problem with Flying Cars 11:01 - Space-Filling Aether Theory Makes Comeback 18:03 - Self-Censorship is Rising
This is our weekly ad-free compilation of science news00:00 - This new “AI Scientist” can “fully automate discovery"5:53 - Small Nuclear Reactors Have A Big Problem11:28 - The Strange Shape that Could Replace Space-Time --- Maybe17:31 - Did the Black Hole Information Paradox just Disappear?
This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 - Tiny Black Holes Might Have Left Holes in… Everything 5:17 - AI Can't Reason. Should It Drive Cars? 11:49 - “Neutral Science is Undesirable” Climate Scientists Argue 18:21 - A New Pattern in Nature
This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 - Scam or Breakthrough? Energy Saving with Electron Spins 6:23 - The Quantum Computing Collapse Has Begun 12:05 - Most Age Records are Pension Fraud, Scientist Says 17:14 - New Alien Signal Rumour -- What's Behind It?
This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 - Scam or Breakthrough? Energy Saving with Electron Spins 6:23 - The Quantum Computing Collapse Has Begun 12:05 - Most Age Records are Pension Fraud, Scientist Says 17:14 - New Alien Signal Rumour -- What's Behind It?
This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 - Superconducting Cables are Coming. I'm Not Joking 6:05 - The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics Did Not Go To Physics 11:22 - These new scientific fraud cases worry me: Now also in material science 17:08 - I Didn't Believe that AI is the Future of Coding. I Was Right. 22:21 - Surprise Comeback: Dark Energy Could Be Holographic After All
This is our weekly ad-free compilation of science news 00:00 - Who Will Win This Year's Nobel Prize in Physics? My Speculations 5:39 - New Theory of Consciousness Explains Why Zombies Don't Exist 11:25 - Negative Time is Real, Physicists Confirm. Kind Of. 16:50 - These physicists say they know what's inside a black hole 22:48 - “People Don't Realize This” about Climate Change, Elon Musk Says
This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 - This Lawsuit Could Change Science 6:12 - Yuval Harari's Warning About New Alien Intelligences 12:51 - Wrong or Unfalsifiable? String Theory's Biggest Competitor in Trouble 20:00 - How Jailbreakers Try to “Free” AI 28:54 - Sound Lasers Could Soon Become Reality, Thanks to This New Idea
This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 - AI Feels the Data Crunch 6:15 - No, Einstein Didn't Solve the Biggest Problem in Physics 12:38 - Near-Collision With Other Star Jumbled Up Our Solar System, Physicists Says 17:55 - Chances for CERN's Mega-Collider are Sinking 23:55 - This Could Test the Quantum Twin Paradox
This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 - This New Idea to Detect a Quantum of Gravity Might Just Work 6:14 - German Company Reinvents the Wheel: Wundertech or Hype? 11:58 - An Electromagnetic Vortex Cannon, Finally!
This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 - The Nightmare Scenario for Dark Matter is Inching Closer 6:38 - Headline-Making Report Full Of Mistakes: Coal Better Than Gas? 12:12 - Nuclear Fusion Predictions are Nonsense 18:03 - Is it Eugenics to Breed for Intelligence? 23:08 - Cat Becomes Well-Cited Scholar With New Scam Method
This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 - Whistleblower Report Reveals Fermilab's Troubles 6:05 - Scientists Proprose to Preserve Species on the Moon 11:20 - Climate Tipping Points are Real, Stop Denying It 17:02 - Core Meltdown Emergency Test At Chinese Nuclear Reactor 22:20 - Can quantum entanglement make money on the stock market? 39:29 - I Said Hybrids Were The Future. Was I Right?
This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 - Energy from Nuclear Waste: Switzerland Approves first Accellerator-Driven Reactor 5:17 - Will This Crazy Idea Make Mars Habitable? 10:06 - Can Quantum Physics Explain Consciousness After All? 17:20 - Goodbye Meat, Hello Crickets: The Future of Food
This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 - Is the AI Left-Bias Real? 5:03 - Crazy New Physics Anomaly: Anti-Matter Helium Detected 10:58 - Are Hallucinations Popping the AI Bubble? 18:18 - Are childless people a problem? 25:23 - Fermi Paradox Explained by Quantum Communication
This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 - Time is an Illusion, And These Physicists Say They Know How It Works 5:21 - The REAL Problem with Warp Drives 10:43 - Musk Promises Superhuman Vision, Experts Say It's Nonsense 16:42 - New Quantum Computing Paradigm Could Make all the Difference 22:04 - ANOTHER dark matter experiment finds nothing -- Why keep doing it?
This is our weekly compilation of science news. 00:00 - Faster than Light Particles Could Exist After All 6:00 - Small modular reactor fuel could be used to build nuclear bomb, experts warn 12:03 - Dark Matter Solves Longstanding Black Hole Problem, Astrophysicists Say 17:35 - How could we tell whether AI has become conscious? 26:41 - Random Code Can Learn to Self-Replicate, New Study Finds
This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 - Costs explode for Nuclear Fusion Flagship project 5:10 - Americans Sue to Remain Misinformed 10:54 - AI Hype: “Billions of dollars will be incinerated” Business Analysts Warn 16:32 - The Trouble with Heat Pumps 26:04 - Groundbreaking New Solar Energy System – Too Good to be True?
This is our weekly compilation of science news. 00:00 - Quantum Computing Hype Goes Wild: Bullshit Headlines Everywhere 5:21 - This Climate Graph has a Nasty Secret 9:56 - Why don't we have better robots yet? 15:39 - Fossil Fuels Don't Come From Fossils? Tucker Carlson Fact Check 29:09 - From Space Thruster to Nappy Bin: Plasmas are Everywhere
This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 - Stop blaming fossil fuel companies – Climate Change is our own fault 6:09 - These tiny fractals could make quantum computing work 11:56 - “The most dumb thing" for energy storage: Hydrogen 18:41 - Think you understand Quantum Physics? Try This. 25:19 - New Batteries: It's Not All Hype
This is our weekly ad-free compilation of science news. 00:00 - Why Bill Gates' New Natrium Reactor is a Big Deal 4:57 - Physicists Claim They Can Send Particles Into the Past 11:06 - AI could prove that reality doesn't exist, physicists say 17:42 - Time Ran Slower in the Past, Physicists Find
This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 - String Theorists Have Calculated the Value of Pi 6:01 - Bad news for dark matter: This data doesn't fit at all 11:11 - I don't think we can control AI much longer. Here's why. 17:12 - What will they think about us in 2085? 22:26 - AI passed the Turing Test -- And No One Noticed
I was under the impression that Bitcoin mining was bad for the environment. It turns out that the situation is much more controversial and interesting than I originally thought. So what is it, is bitcoin good? Or is it bad? Let's have a look.
This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 - This New Idea Could Explain Complexity 5:44 - Gravity Without Mass Could Explain Dark Matter 11:17 - Biggest Self-Own in Quantum Computing, Ever 16:39 - Climate scientists can't agree on how warm it is
This is our weekly compilation of science news. 00:00 - AI Learned to Lie Deliberately 5:53 - This Could Test Stephen Hawking's Prediction 11:24 - Is the Intelligence-Explosion Near? A Reality Check 20:20 - Big News for Quantum Computing: First Scalable Platforms 26:17 - Dark Energy comes from Anti-Universe, New Theory Says
This is our ad-free compilation of science news 00:00 - AI's Dirty Little Secret 5:27 - Musk is Right: Neutrinos are Evidence for New Physics 11:39 - "Are we the idiots?" - Bill Gates on Planting Trees 18:16 - The Benefits of Climate Change