Science news and updates from Sabine Hossenfelder. As simple as possible, but not any simpler.

This is our weekly, ad-free compilation of science news.00:00 - Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS Looks Increasingly Weird6:13 - Quantum Healing Might Be Real – But Not Like We Thought10:46 - Should We Nuke This Asteroid To Spare The Moon?15:48 - String Theory is “Fashion,” Penrose Said. We Finally Have a Response21:07 - Current AI Models have 3 Unfixable Problems

This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - The 2025 Physics Nobel Prize: Quite A Surprise5:26 - This Paper Might Change How We See Gravity10:45 - Mathematicians In Denial About AI Replacing Them16:37 - Nuclear Fusion in 5 Years? What is Happening?21:42 - The Webb Telescope Just Observed Faster Than Light Signals

This is our weekly, ad-free compilation of science news.00:00 - “Termination Shock” Could Explain Recent Global Warming, Some Climate Scientists Think6:21 - Academia's Scam Problem is Getting Worse11:37 - Does Acceleration Create Particles from Nothing? These Physicists Say they can test it

This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - Free Will Can Be Tested with Quantum Computer, Physicists Say5:33 - Did Graphene Just Break A Fundamental Law?11:07 - This New Time Crystal is Visible16:10 - DNA Data Storage 5 Years Away, New Report21:20 - What Can We Do About Fertility Decline?26:20 - Why Quantum Computers Will Never Make Commercial Sense

This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - Physicists find a Dark Matter Clump near us!5:03 - Will This “Naked” Black Hole Finally Change Cosmology?10:24 - Researchers Warn of “Musk Illusion” That Brain Can be Sped Up

This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - How fast will AI change EVERYTHING?6:04 - Was Einstein Wrong about Randomness?11:28 - “Groundbreaking” new theory explains why Universe is so Big16:42 - The sun could kill us. We might finally know why it doesn't.

This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - Is Gravity Modified or is it Dark Matter after all?5:07 - New Experiment Shows Zero Point Motion is Real!10:07 - Crazy New Developments In Nuclear Battery Tech15:52 - Causal Order Doesn't Work, Physicists Find. Now what?

This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - Interdimensional Beings have visited us, Congresswoman Claims – What might it mean?7:01 - Did They Just Break Quantum Physics?12:33 - This Is What Happens After A Nuclear War.

This is our weekly ad-free compilation of science news00:00 - Is AI Breaking Science Right Now?5:28 - Big Bang Can't Repeat, Physicists Proves10:31 - GPT-5: Have We Finally Hit The AI Scaling Wall?16:15 - Black Holes Could Explain Dark Energy21:22 - Quantum Internet Can Test Gravity & Quantum Physics

This is our weekly compilation of science news00:00 - Stunning! AI “Creativity” Is Highly Predictable, Researchers Find5:38 - Did MIT Researchers Just Prove Einstein Wrong?10:53 - Is There Another Universe Right Next to Ours?16:09 - New Physics Theory Explains The Origins Of Time22:02 - New Observations Fit Neatly With String Theory, Physicists Find

This is our weekly compilation of science news00:00 - Did Microsoft Just Fix Its Quantum Problem?5:03 - We Are Underestimating AI10:49 - New Theory: Space Has Memory, Stores Information15:43 - Is there a Black Hole Hiding in the Sun?

This is our weekly compilation of science news00:00 - Interstellar Object Might Be Alien Probe, Astronomer Claims – What's the Evidence?5:11 - Mass Extinction Isn't What We Thought10:36 - 3 Tons of Gold Per Year from Nuclear Fusion?15:20 - Africa Is Getting a New Ocean, And We Finally Know Why

This is our weekly compilation of science news00:00 - Unexpected Result of NASA's Asteroid Deflection Test5:43 - Leaking Nuclear Waste Barrels Found on Ocean Floor

This is our weekly compilation of science news00:00 - The Cosmology Crisis Just Got Even Worse5:19 - More Evidence That We Live In A Giant “Hole” In Space10:14 - New Experiment Rules out Bohmian Mechanics. It's Serious.

This is our weekly compilation of science news00:00 - Strange New Observations Reveal Major Clue About Dark Matter5:20 - These People Believe They Made AI Sentient11:51 - Has One Man Just Saved String Theory?17:05 - This Experiment Just Ruled Out The Many Worlds Theory, Physicists Claim

This is our weekly compilation of science news00:00 - Breakthrough on 125 Year-Old Physics Problem5:43 - Using AI Makes Your Brain Lazy, Even After You Stop Using It, New Study Shows10:45 - Americans Scared By Chinese Quantum Computing Progress15:48 - Physicists Just Invented a New Particle Accelerator!

This is our weekly compilation of science news00:00 - Is the Cosmic Microwave Background a Huge Mistake?5:27 - AI's “Intelligence Explosion” Is Coming. Here's What That Means.11:11 - The Mystery Just Got Bigger: What are those particles in the Antarctic?16:36 - That's Big: Natural Hydrogen Could Power World for 100,000 Years, Survey Finds22:08 - AI's Real Threat: Mass Manipulation

This is our weekly compilation of science news00:00 - Surprise Progress in Quantum Computing5:29 - Gold Mystery Finally Solved?11:24 - Does AI Already Have Free Will?17:09 - Gamechange: Theories Of Everything Can't Exist, Physicists Show.22:42 - Is Our Universe Inside a Black Hole? This Makes it Plausible

This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - AI is becoming dangerous. Are we ready?5:34 - We Have an Aura Of Visible Light, Here is what it looks like10:30 - Is Everything Computer? New Calculation Supports Simulation Hypothesis15:25 - Bombshell Paper Shows AI Has Thinking Collapse. Or Does It?

This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - The Quantum Internet Is Real And Coming!5:06 - Stars Will Die Much Sooner Than We Thought, New Calculation Shows10:24 - Scientists Measure Qualia for First Time – It was thought to be impossible16:08 - New idea explains dark energy AND dark matter (maybe)

This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - AI Slop Is Spreading In Science, Too6:17 - Gravity Proves That We Live In A Simulation, Physicist Claims11:11 - This New Laser Tech Might Be the Future of Computing16:49 - China To Become First To Drill Through The Earth's Crust

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?