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

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New Theory: Dark Energy Might Be Black Holes -- and other science news of the week

11/17/2024
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

Duration:00:22:29

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Scientists Discover a Law of Natural Laws -- and other science news of the week

11/11/2024
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

Duration:00:23:17

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This new “AI Scientist” can “fully automate discovery" -- and other science news of the week

11/4/2024
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?

Duration:00:23:03

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Tiny Black Holes Might Have Left Holes in… Everything

10/29/2024
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

Duration:00:23:59

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The Quantum Computing Collapse Has Begun -- and other science news of the week

10/23/2024
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?

Duration:00:22:54

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Surprise Comeback: Dark Energy Could Be Holographic After All -- and other science news of the week

10/14/2024
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

Duration:00:28:04

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These physicists say they know what's inside a black hole -- and other science news of the week

10/7/2024
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

Duration:00:29:33

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This Lawsuit Could Change Science -- and other science news of the week

9/30/2024
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

Duration:00:34:22

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No, Einstein Didn’t Solve the Biggest Problem in Physics -- and other science news of the week

9/24/2024
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

Duration:00:29:03

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This New Idea to Detect a Quantum of Gravity Might Just Work -- and other science news of the week

9/17/2024
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!

Duration:00:17:30

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Nuclear Fusion Predictions are Nonsense -- and other science news of the week

9/9/2024
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

Duration:00:29:41

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Core Meltdown Emergency Test At Chinese Nuclear Reactor -- and other science news of the week

9/2/2024
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?

Duration:00:35:53

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Will This Crazy Idea Make Mars Habitable? -- and other science news of the week

8/26/2024
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

Duration:00:24:22

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Are childless people a problem? -- and other science news of the week

8/19/2024
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

Duration:00:31:18

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Musk Promises Superhuman Vision, Experts Say It’s Nonsense -- and other science news of the week

8/11/2024
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?

Duration:00:27:34

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Faster than Light Particles Could Exist After All -- and other science news of the week

8/5/2024
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

Duration:00:32:16

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The Trouble with Heat Pumps -- and other science news of the week

7/29/2024
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?

Duration:00:31:32

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Fossil Fuels Don’t Come From Fossils? Tucker Carlson Fact Check - and other science news of the week

7/29/2024
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

Duration:00:35:12

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“The most dumb thing" for energy storage: Hydrogen -- and other science news of the week

7/15/2024
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

Duration:00:31:13

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AI could prove that reality doesn’t exist, physicists say -- and other science news of the week

7/8/2024
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

Duration:00:23:10