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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: 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

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

6/23/2025
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

Duration:00:29:45

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

6/16/2025
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?

Duration:00:21:09

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

6/13/2025
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)

Duration:00:21:34

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

6/1/2025
This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - AI Slop Is Spreading In Science, Too 6:17 - Gravity Proves That We Live In A Simulation, Physicist Claims 11:11 - This New Laser Tech Might Be the Future of Computing 16:49 - China To Become First To Drill Through The Earth’s Crust

Duration:00:21:59

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

5/25/2025
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 sinking 10:05 - Gravity might be a force after all 15:11 - Black Holes might turn into White Holes, and make up dark matter, physicists say

Duration:00:21:26

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

5/20/2025
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.

Duration:00:21:11

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

5/11/2025
This is our weekly compilation of science news. 00:00 - AI is too nice -- but it has a bigger problem 5:27 - Trump's Science Cuts Might Have an Unexpected Benefit 11:27 - Four Starlink Satellites Fell From The Sky Each Day, Creating New Worries 17:12 - Chinese claim "First Successful Factorization of RSA-2028 Integer". I've had a look.

Duration:00:22:48

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Weekly Digest: The AI Revolution Hiding in Obscure Research and more

4/28/2025
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

Duration:00:22:13

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There's Helium in Earth's Core, Researchers Say -- and other science news of the week

4/20/2025
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

Duration:00:27:04