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

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Weekly Digest: Finally a Use for String Theory and more

1/19/2026
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

Duration:00:18:29

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Weekly Digest: A Major Blow for Unified Physics and more

1/12/2026
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

Duration:00:23:44

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

1/4/2026
This is our weekly compilation of science news. 00:00 - The most amazing renewable energy most people have never heard of 5:35 - These Physicists Believe Quantum Computers Will Never Work 11:21 - It’s The End Of An Era For Physics. 17:05 - We Thought This Particle Was Impossible To Measure!

Duration:00:22:55

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

12/29/2025
This is our weekly compilation of science news. 00:00 - This Is Why Wormholes Are Making Headlines Right Now 6:10 - Are We Using the Wrong Kind Of Electricity? 12:37 - New Experiment Sees Order Emerge from Chaos 18:12 - Crazy: Scientists Compute With Human Brain Cells

Duration:00:23:29

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

12/22/2025
This is our weekly, ad-free compilation of science news. 00:00 - Former NASA Scientist Publishes Plan to Engineer Warp Drive 5:20 - China Makes Breakthrough With Thorium Nuclear Reactor. Where is the West? 10:37 - Surprise: Free Will Needs Quantum Physics to Fail, Physicists Show 15:56 - Nanobots: The Truth Behind the Headlines

Duration:00:21:48

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

12/14/2025
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?

Duration:00:30:04

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

12/7/2025
This is our weekly compilation of science news. 00:00 - New Data Bring Trouble For Theory of Universe 5:50 - 15 Year-Old Just Finished his PhD in Quantum Physics. I had a look at his thesis. 11:20 - The Big Problem With Solar Power 17:09 - Plot Twist: Reality Doesn't Need Complex Numbers After All! 22:54 - The Next Big Thing in Tech is Almost Here

Duration:00:28:42

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Weekly Digest: Scientists may have detected dark matter and more

12/1/2025
This is our weekly compilation of science news. 00:00 - Huge Gravity Anomaly Near Africa 5:33 - 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

Duration:00:22:13

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

11/16/2025
This is our weekly compilation of science news. 00:00 - Stunning Study finds Error in Nobel Prize Discovery 5:26 - Physicists Prove That Universe is not a Simulation 11:49 - The Truth about Human-Caused Mass Extinction 16:55 - New Experiment Explains Why We Don't See Quantum Weirdness Everywhere 23:01 - AI Is Suddenly Surprisingly Good At Physics

Duration:00:28:36

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Weekly Digest: This Is Why Humans Hate AI and more

11/10/2025
This is our weekly compilation of science news. 00:00 - Good News for Battery Progress! 5:15 - Universe Began with Quantum Knots, Physicists Say 10:18 - This Is Why Humans Hate AI 16:26 - This Simple Trick Solves Impossible Physics Problems (and it's pretty, too)

Duration:00:23:09

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Weekly Digest: Physicist Discover Hidden Rules of Life and more

11/2/2025
This is our weekly compilation of science news. 00:00 - Physicist Discover Hidden Rules of Life 4:53 - 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.

Duration:00:15:42

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

10/27/2025
This is our weekly compilation of science news. 00:00 - Plagiarism Charges Against Nobel Prize for Artificial Intelligence 5:26 - Will Positive Geometry Revolutionize Physics or Destroy It? 11:03 - Physicists Find Artificial Objects Around Earth Before We Had Satellites 16:09 - Speed of Light Is Not Constant, Solving 100 Year Old Problem, Physicist Claims 21:26 - Beware the New AI Pseudoscience. 27:57 - This Is Why Electric Vehicles Are Struggling

Duration:00:33:19

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

10/20/2025
This is our weekly, ad-free compilation of science news.00:00 - Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS Looks Increasingly Weird 6:13 - Quantum Healing Might Be Real – But Not Like We Thought 10:46 - Should We Nuke This Asteroid To Spare The Moon? 15:48 - String Theory is “Fashion,” Penrose Said. We Finally Have a Response 21:07 - Current AI Models have 3 Unfixable Problems

Duration:00:27:34

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

10/12/2025
This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - The 2025 Physics Nobel Prize: Quite A Surprise 5:26 - This Paper Might Change How We See Gravity 10:45 - Mathematicians In Denial About AI Replacing Them 16:37 - Nuclear Fusion in 5 Years? What is Happening? 21:42 - The Webb Telescope Just Observed Faster Than Light Signals

Duration:00:27:05

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

10/9/2025
This is our weekly, ad-free compilation of science news.00:00 - “Termination Shock” Could Explain Recent Global Warming, Some Climate Scientists Think 6:21 - Academia’s Scam Problem is Getting Worse 11:37 - Does Acceleration Create Particles from Nothing? These Physicists Say they can test it

Duration:00:16:54

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

9/28/2025
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

Duration:00:33:11

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

9/22/2025
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

Duration:00:15:40

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Weekly Digest: Was Einstein Wrong about Randomness? and more

9/15/2025
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.

Duration:00:21:45

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

9/8/2025
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?

Duration:00:21:11

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

9/1/2025
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.

Duration:00:18:13