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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: 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

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

8/25/2025
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

Duration:00:26:39

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

8/17/2025
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

Duration:00:28:02

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

8/10/2025
This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 - Did Microsoft Just Fix Its Quantum Problem? 5:03 - We Are Underestimating AI 10:49 - New Theory: Space Has Memory, Stores Information 15:43 - Is there a Black Hole Hiding in the Sun?

Duration:00:20:58

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

8/4/2025
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 Thought 10:36 - 3 Tons of Gold Per Year from Nuclear Fusion? 15:20 - Africa Is Getting a New Ocean, And We Finally Know Why

Duration:00:20:01

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

7/28/2025
This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 - Unexpected Result of NASA’s Asteroid Deflection Test 5:43 - Leaking Nuclear Waste Barrels Found on Ocean Floor

Duration:00:10:37

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

7/20/2025
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.

Duration:00:15:55

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

7/13/2025
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

Duration:00:22:46

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

7/6/2025
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!

Duration:00:21:31

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

6/29/2025
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

Duration:00:28:09