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Truth can be painful, but truth can’t be sued. So sometimes, people who’ve been hurt by truth will try to sue those who dug up the truth. This doesn’t only affect journalists, who often have legal backup from their employer, but increasingly often also scientists, who usually have no l...
2023-12-09 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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Image an atomic nucleus. What does it look like? Is it round, like, a ball? Yeah, that’s what I used to think they look like. But this group of researchers from China has found on...
2023-12-08 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostI've gotten a lot of question about the recent content changes on the YouTube channel, with the move from the weekly news to daily news.
The issue I have, in a nutshell, is the following. I see in my comments, here and elsewhere, that you are asking both for reactions on recent news and for in-depth coverage of more general questions. I a...
The ADNOC carbon capture plant. Image Credit: ADNOC.
The Abu Dhabi...
2023-12-07 21:48:26 +0000 UTC View Post
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You’ve probably heard that particle physicists would really, really like to have a new particle collider, one that can reach even higher energies that the Large Hadron Collider, the currently most powerful particle accelerator in the world. And this new breakthrough which I ...
2023-12-07 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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The physics paper that I’m most excited about this week is about an experiment that will measure nothing. But not any nothing, a very specific nothing, that’s the vacuum of quantum electrodynamics.
You might think that if you remove all the particles from within a ...
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You’ve all heard that sleeping problems are called “imsomina” but have you heard of “orthosomina”? “Ortho” is the Greek word for straight or correct, and ‘somnia’ means sleep. 2023-12-02 13:00:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Left: Ozone layer illustration. Right: NASA images a hole in the Ozone layer.
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2023-11-29 23:44:45 +0000 UTC View Post
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Welcome everyone to this week’s science news. Today we’ll talk about the leading theories for why Sam Altman got fired from OpenAI, cosmic rays with HUGE energies, evidence of a an overdue supervolcano eruption near Italy, an exoplanet on which it rains sand, Microsoft’s first A...
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Remember COVID? It’s over, right? Except for some people it isn’t over, and maybe it never will be. Estimates say that as much as one in 10 people who had COVID were still affected more than 3 months later. They got long COVID.
But what’s long COVID? What might cause i...
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The U.S. government is already planning the ...
2023-11-22 23:35:59 +0000 UTC View Post
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Welcome everyone to yet another exciting week of science news. Today we’ll talk about why Mars glows green, an amazingly cool way to make magnets hover, a study which found that a supposed piece of alien tech isn’t alien tech, surprising absolutely no one, plans to use the...
2023-11-21 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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Is science coming to an end? I’ve been thinking about this a lot recently. This may sound like old Sabine has finally gone completely crazy. Fair enough. But I believe my worries aren’t quite as crazy as they sound. Though I guess that’s exactly what a crazy person would say, wouldn’t t...
2023-11-18 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
The supposed superconductor. Image: University of Rochester.
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2023-11-15 23:46:18 +0000 UTC View Post
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Welcome everyone to this week’s science news. Today we have an update on the biggest astrophysics drama of the year, that’s an observation which seems to be ruling out the most popular alternative to dark matter. Then we have a group of geologists who claim that parts of t...
2023-11-15 15:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
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Net Zero. Everyone is talking about Net Zero, everywhere, all at once. But Net Zero what? What does this even mean? Is it a reasonable goal? How far are we on the way? And do we have any chance of reaching it? That’s what we’ll talk about today.
First things first, what do...
2023-11-11 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Streaked Shearwater Seabird, Japan. Source: lin-sun-f...
2023-11-08 23:38:45 +0000 UTC View Post
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Welcome everyone to this week’s science news! This week we have new evidence that the dinosaurs were killed by the aftermath of an asteroid impact, then we have a look at the biggest universe simulation ever, talk about a lost continent that’s been found, roman ruins in spy foot...
2023-11-07 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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I know I said I wouldn’t do reaction videos. But, ah, I keep seeing these terrible memes about quantum mechanics. It’s quite possible that you don’t want to know what I think about them, but I’ll tell you anyway. In this totally unfunny video, I’ll rate the 10 most popular quantum memes. Are they ...
2023-11-05 06:58:40 +0000 UTC View Post
IEA 2023 projection for global oil demand in million barrels per day
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2023-11-01 22:28:32 +0000 UTC View Post
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Welcome everyone! Science never rests and this week we have quite a selection of news. It looks like the sun’s magnetic field will flip earlier than expected, the moon is 40 million years older than anyone thought, a group of geologists have found that Earth’s core is leaking, w...
2023-11-01 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
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In 2021, the US Food and Drug Administration approved wegovy a drug with the active ingredient semaglutide that helps people lose weight. In contrast to pretty much all previous weight-loss drugs, this one actually works. And it’s taken the world by storm.
According to Komodo Heal...
(a) Map of detected earthquakes (b) Data used to detect the qua...
2023-10-25 18:20:27 +0000 UTC View Post
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Welcome everyone to this week’s science news. Today we’ll talk about why coin flips are not fifty-fifty, starquakes, the most powerful solar storm ever, space debris, IBM’s new brain-inspired computer chip, an exoplanet collision, a new tectonic plate, projections for AI power...
2023-10-24 16:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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Physics is fascinating because, well, because of many reasons of course, not least that it works. But one reason is certainly that it gives a touch of plausibility to ideas that otherwise seem like pure fiction, strange objects that you think shouldn’t exist: Wormholes, invisibility cloaks, or birds. &nbs...
2023-10-21 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostImage: Matthews et al., PNAS ( 2023)
Researchers...
2023-10-19 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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Welcome everyone to this week’s science news. This week we’ll talk about three new laws of nature, one of which supposedly shows that we live in a computer simulation. We’ll have a first look at intergalactic filaments, talk about building roads on the moon, whether chatbots u...
2023-10-17 16:10:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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We just talked about time travel next month, but it’s been a while, so let’s give this a closer look. What does physics say about time travel? Is ...
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has fined Dish, a...
2023-10-11 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
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Welcome everyone to this week’s science news. Today we’ll talk about a new candidate for a cosmic string, the mysterious shrinking of planet Mercury, a nuclear clock, the first quantum engine, a simulator for human diseases, whether we can find new physics with spinning bla...
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