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Science with Sabine

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

  1. 161

    Weekly Digest: New Theory Explains How Time Began and more!

    This is our weekly, ad-free compilation of science news.00:00 - New Theory Explains How Time Began05:30 - Quantum Physics Is An Unnecessary Complication, Physicists Say10:31 - Einstein's Theory Has a Problem -- This Idea Solves It

  2. 160

    Weekly Digest: Our Evolutionary Past Is Killing Us Now and more

    This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - Our Evolutionary Past Is Killing Us05:18 - This Anomaly Could Be The First Evidence of New Physics11:01 - The Reason Aliens Haven’t Contacted Us Might Be Horrifying…

  3. 159

    Weekly Digest: The Truth About China’s Green Energy Industry and more

    This is our weekly, ad-free compilation of science news.00:00 - Mathematician Collapses All Functions to One Weird Formula5:11 - Physicists finally prove that virtual particles are real and all around us10:21 - The Truth About China’s Green Energy Industry

  4. 158

    Weekly Digest: This Calculation Could Change The Periodic Table and more

    This is our weekly, ad-free compilation of science news.00:00 - The Dark Matter Mystery Just Took a Weird Turn5:39 - US Military Uses “Ghost Murmurs” in Iran: What are they?11:25 - This Calculation Could Change The Periodic Table

  5. 157

    Weekly Digest: Quantum Computers Just Got Much More Dangerous and more

    This is our weekly, ad-free compilation of science news.00:00 - It's not that string theory failed -- it's worse5:21 - Quantum Computers Just Got Much More Dangerous

  6. 156

    Weekly Digest: We Can Now Simulate a Human Brain, Scientists Show and more

    This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - More Evidence for UAPs! Scientists Afraid to Speak Out5:40 - We Can Now Simulate a Human Brain, Scientists Show10:56 - Crazy: Riemann Hypothesis Linked to Black Holes, Physicists Find

  7. 155

    Weekly Digest: Physicists Say They’ve Discovered A Secret About The Vacuum and more

    This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - Physicists Say They’ve Discovered A Secret About The Vacuum5:30 - The North Pole is Moving And We Don’t Know Why

  8. 154

    Weekly Digest: How Google is Changing AI and more

    This is our weekly, ad-free compilation of science news.00:00 - How Google is Changing AI5:42 - Space & Time Are Quasicrystals, Physicists Claim11:12 - Breakthrough in Zero Friction Materials16:34 - These Physicists Say They Found The Origin Of Reality

  9. 153

    Weekly Digest: The Simulation Hypothesis Gets Scientific Backing and more

    This is our weekly, ad-free compilation of science news.00:00 - Surprise! Milky Way Might Not Have a Black Hole After All5:04 - The Simulation Hypothesis Gets Scientific Backing10:01 - Breakthrough In Data Storage Could Store Your Photos for 10000 Years

  10. 152

    Weekly Digest: Nuclear Fusion Reactors Could Produce Dark Matter, Physicists Show and more

    This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - AI is changing the World Of Theoretical Physics, Fast.5:51 - Nuclear Fusion Reactors Could Produce Dark Matter, Physicists Show10:55 - The Pentagon Says It’s Discovered The Weapon Behind Havana Syndrome17:16 - Is Gen Z Really That Dumb?22:46 - The First Moon Landing Wasn’t Apollo — And We Just Found It

  11. 151

    Weekly Digest: Nuclear Fusion Breaks Multiple Records and more

    This is our weekly, ad-free compilation of science news.00:00 - The Quantum Computer Dream is Falling Apart5:36 - Physicists Rethink Time… And It Solves Several Big Problems10:39 - Nuclear Fusion Breaks Multiple Records16:01 - Will Quantum Computing Kill Bitcoin?

  12. 150

    Weekly Digest: We Live In Between Two HUGE Dark Matter Voids and more

    This is our weekly, ad-free compilation of science news.00:00 - We Live In Between Two HUGE Dark Matter Voids5:25 - Physicist Publishes Method For Communicating With Parallel Universes

  13. 149

    Weekly Digest: The AI Maths Revolution Has Begun and more

    This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - Physicists Find Missing Link Between Quantum Mechanics and Gravity5:17 - How Bad are Microplastics?10:40 - The AI Maths Revolution Has Begun

  14. 148

    Weekly Digest: Biofuels are Delusion, New Data Reveal and more

    This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - More Good News for Geothermal Energy5:10 - Biofuels are Delusion, New Data Reveal10:41 - A New Link Between Quantum Physics and Gravity

  15. 147

    Weekly Digest: Finally a Use for String Theory and more

    This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - Finally a Use for String Theory!5:55 - Why Did No One Think of This? Dark Matter Might Just be Normal Matter12:57 - Quantum Physics Can Change the Past, Physicists Show

  16. 146

    Weekly Digest: A Major Blow for Unified Physics and more

    This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - Surveillance Tech Is Shockingly Advanced5:40 - AI Is Coming For Scientists’ Jobs. Seriously.11:45 - Action at a Distance Can Explain Dark Matter, Physicists Show17:52 - A Major Blow for Unified Physics

  17. 145

    Weekly Digest: It’s The End Of An Era For Physics and more

    This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - The most amazing renewable energy most people have never heard of5:35 - These Physicists Believe Quantum Computers Will Never Work11:21 - It’s The End Of An Era For Physics.17:05 - We Thought This Particle Was Impossible To Measure!

  18. 144

    Weekly Digest: Are We Using the Wrong Kind Of Electricity? and more

    This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - This Is Why Wormholes Are Making Headlines Right Now6:10 - Are We Using the Wrong Kind Of Electricity?12:37 - New Experiment Sees Order Emerge from Chaos18:12 - Crazy: Scientists Compute With Human Brain Cells

  19. 143

    Weekly Digest: China Makes Breakthrough With Thorium Nuclear Reactor. Where is the West? and more

    This is our weekly, ad-free compilation of science news.00:00 - Former NASA Scientist Publishes Plan to Engineer Warp Drive5:20 - China Makes Breakthrough With Thorium Nuclear Reactor. Where is the West?10:37 - Surprise: Free Will Needs Quantum Physics to Fail, Physicists Show15:56 - Nanobots: The Truth Behind the Headlines

  20. 142

    Weekly Digest: This Discovery Might Change What We Know About Life! and more

    This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - This Discovery Might Change What We Know About Life!5:11 - 100+ Years Old Debate About Quantum Reality Settled With Experiment. Really?12:13 - Big Tech Wants To Build Data Centers In Space: Does This Make Sense?17:49 - China Says It Built a 1000× Faster AI Chip!24:08 - Is AI Killing the Internet?

  21. 141

    Weekly Digest: New Data Bring Trouble For Theory of Universe and more

    This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - New Data Bring Trouble For Theory of Universe5:50 - 15 Year-Old Just Finished his PhD in Quantum Physics. I had a look at his thesis.11:20 - The Big Problem With Solar Power17:09 - Plot Twist: Reality Doesn't Need Complex Numbers After All!22:54 - The Next Big Thing in Tech is Almost Here

  22. 140

    Weekly Digest: Scientists may have detected dark matter and more

    This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - Huge Gravity Anomaly Near Africa5:33 - Scientists may have detected dark matter.11:05 - Why Doesn’t Anyone Monitor AI Consciousness?16:49 - Small Nuclear Reactors are Coming --- Against All Odds

  23. 139

    Weekly Digest: The Truth about Human-Caused Mass Extinction and more

    This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - Stunning Study finds Error in Nobel Prize Discovery5:26 - Physicists Prove That Universe is not a Simulation11:49 - The Truth about Human-Caused Mass Extinction16:55 - New Experiment Explains Why We Don't See Quantum Weirdness Everywhere23:01 - AI Is Suddenly Surprisingly Good At Physics

  24. 138

    Weekly Digest: This Is Why Humans Hate AI and more

    This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - Good News for Battery Progress!5:15 - Universe Began with Quantum Knots, Physicists Say10:18 - This Is Why Humans Hate AI16:26 - This Simple Trick Solves Impossible Physics Problems (and it's pretty, too)

  25. 137

    Weekly Digest: Physicist Discover Hidden Rules of Life and more

    This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - Physicist Discover Hidden Rules of Life4:53 - Mysterious “Dark Star” Made of Dark Matter Spotted in Webb Telescope Data (Maybe)9:59 - These Mathematicians Don’t Believe Large Numbers Exist. I’m Serious.

  26. 136

    Weekly Digest: Physicists Find Artificial Objects Around Earth Before We Had Satellites and more

    This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - Plagiarism Charges Against Nobel Prize for Artificial Intelligence5:26 - Will Positive Geometry Revolutionize Physics or Destroy It?11:03 - Physicists Find Artificial Objects Around Earth Before We Had Satellites16:09 - Speed of Light Is Not Constant, Solving 100 Year Old Problem, Physicist Claims21:26 - Beware the New AI Pseudoscience.27:57 - This Is Why Electric Vehicles Are Struggling

  27. 135

    Weekly Digest: Current AI Models have 3 Unfixable Problems and more

    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

  28. 134

    Weekly Digest: Mathematicians In Denial About AI Replacing Them and more

    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

  29. 133

    Weekly Digest: Academia’s Scam Problem is Getting Worse and more

    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

  30. 132

    Weekly Digest: Free Will Can Be Tested with Quantum Computer, Physicists Say and more

    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

  31. 131

    Weekly Digest: Physicists Find a Dark Matter Clump Near Us and more

    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

  32. 130

    Weekly Digest: Was Einstein Wrong about Randomness? and more

    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.

  33. 129

    Weekly Digest: Crazy New Developments In Nuclear Battery Tech and more

    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?

  34. 128

    Weekly Digest: This Is What Happens After A Nuclear War and more

    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.

  35. 127

    Weekly Digest: Is AI Breaking Science Right Now? and more

    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

  36. 126

    Weekly Digest: Stunning! AI “Creativity” Is Highly Predictable, Researchers Find and more

    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

  37. 125

    Weekly Digest: New Theory: Space Has Memory, Stores Information and more

    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?

  38. 124

    Weekly Digest: Mass Extinction Isn’t What We Thought and more

    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

  39. 123

    Weekly Digest: Leaking Nuclear Waste Barrels Found on Ocean Floor and more

    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

  40. 122

    Weekly Digest: The Cosmology Crisis Just Got Even Worse and more

    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.

  41. 121

    Weekly Digest: Has One Man Just Saved String Theory? and more

    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

  42. 120

    Weekly Digest: AI’s Breakthrough on 125 Year-Old Physics Problem and more

    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!

  43. 119

    Weekly Digest: AI’s “Intelligence Explosion” Is Coming and more

    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

  44. 118

    Weekly Digest: Does AI Already Have Free Will? and more

    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

  45. 117

    Weekly Digest: AI is becoming dangerous. Are we ready? and more

    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?

  46. 116

    Weekly Digest: The Quantum Internet Is Real And Coming! and more

    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)

  47. 115

    Weekly Digest: AI Slop Is Spreading In Science, Too and more

    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

  48. 114

    Weekly Digest: The USA is crumbling at the bottom and more

    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

  49. 113

    Weekly Digest: Four Starlink Satellites Fell From The Sky Each Day, Creating New Worries and more

    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.

  50. 112

    Weekly Digest: Four Starlink Satellites Fell From The Sky Each Day, Creating New Worries and more

    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.

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

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