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It’s been a while since we talked about quantum computing! The last time I did an overview video was in 2021, but that might as well have been in the stone age, so much has happened since! What’s going on, what’s new and who is saying what? That’s what we’ll talk about today.
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Welcome everyone to this week’s science news! Today we’ll talk about the Nobel Prize in physics, yet another superconductor retraction, whether Integrated Information theory is pseudoscience, why antimatter doesn’t anti-gravitate, sand that flows uphill which I swear has nothi...
2023-10-03 17:26:26 +0000 UTC View Post
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Oh dear, we’ve made it to 1 million subscribers. This is so crazy. Thank you all fo...
Webb Telescope Spots Full Einstein Ring
Einstein Ring, JWST-ER1, original and magnified. Image: NASA/JWST
NA...
2023-09-27 14:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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Welcome everyone to this week’s science news. Today we’ll talk about raisins. Yes, raisins. Quasars with dark matter halos, pink diamonds, the last moments of a dying satellite, a new type of qubit, maybe, how to measure the length of the day with lasers, a new treatment method ...
2023-09-26 16:56:54 +0000 UTC View Post
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Stephen Hawking might have been the most famous contemporary physicist in the eyes of the public, for me it’s been Steven Weinberg. Weinberg was one of the recipients of the 1979 Nobel Prize in physics, for his role in the development of the standard model. But if people knew one ...
2023-09-23 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Sizes and types of large, known lithium deposits. Image: Benson et al, Scienc...
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Welcome everyone to this week’s science news. Today we’ll talk about the possibly first evidence for life on an exoplanet, with some caveats, chaos at the centre of the Milky Way, earthquake lights, a really old rock, noise cancellation for qubits, good news about air pollution,...
2023-09-18 16:01:41 +0000 UTC View Post
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On this channel I talk a lot. Guess you’ve noticed that. So in this video, I want to talk about how we talk, or how we communicate information on social media in general. Why is it so difficult to communicate on social media? What’s a parasocial relationship, and should you trus...
2023-09-16 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostTheoretical physicists from the University of...
2023-09-13 16:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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Welcome back everyone to our weekly science news. Today we’ll talk about a bubble of galaxies, a climate scientist who made his own paper worse, double magic oxygen, a chemical reaction slowed down 100 billion times, Maxwell’s demon in biology, intelligent life on earth, the lau...
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Have you ever heard of Web3? If not, you’re not alone. In a YouGov survey in May this year, merely 24 percent of participants said they are familiar with the term. Elon Musk has taken shots at it, tweeting, “Has anyone seen web3? I can’t find it.” And the software engineer turn...
2023-09-09 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostImage Credit: Moller, et al., Nano-Micro Small, 2023
Have you ever tried to wri...
2023-09-07 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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Capitalism will kill us all. That is, if you trust Greta Thunberg. Which maybe you should not. Free markets will save us all. 2023-09-02 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
A Yin-Yang-Shaped Photon Source Creates Confusion
A reconstructed signal with a Yin-Yang-shaped filter. Image credit...
2023-08-30 16:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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I’ve noticed that a lot of scientists on social media make jokes about people who do their own research. This has been going on ever since COVID and it’s only been getting worse. We’re now at the point where they’re claiming you’re only allowed to talk about a topic if you...
2023-08-26 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostDark Energy Pushes Andromeda Away
Andromeda. Image: NASA
Astrophysicists at the University of Cambridge c...
2023-08-23 21:31:35 +0000 UTC View Post
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Welcome everyone to this week’s science news. Today we’ll talk about superchemistry, music in the brain, how to create matter from light, contrails, objects that take strange turns, why phone batteries might soon become replaceable, how to control fire, why we have to think abou...
2023-08-22 16:20:09 +0000 UTC View PostUS Launches Pilot Program for Carbon Removal
The US Department of Energy has announced it will spend $1.2 billion on two...
2023-08-18 18:52:40 +0000 UTC View Post
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Welcome everyone to this week’s science news. Today we’ll talk about the muon anomaly at fermilab, say good-bye to LK99, hear from scientists who say that sun is brighter than we thought, look at a new ion trap, talk about talk about a cold blob, plans for a new space station, d...
2023-08-15 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
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My family’s first personal computer was a Commodore 128. It had 128 kilobytes of RAM and a display resolution of 320 times 200 pixel. The laptop I currently use is a few years old but has 16 gigabytes of ram and a screen resolution that outperforms my rapidly aging eyes. There’...
A Giant Sun Umbrella to Slow Climate Change
Credit: István Szapudi/UH Institute for Astronomy
István Sz...
2023-08-09 21:52:09 +0000 UTC View Post
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Welcome everyone to this week’s science news. Today I have an update on the reproduction efforts for the supposed room temperature superconductor, LK 99, the first images from the Euclid mission, more trouble with Starlink satellites, first results from a new simulation for cosmol...
2023-08-08 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
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I constantly hear physicists claim that there is something “wrong” with our understanding of the universe. It’s an argument they frequently use to justify new experiments, a better detector, a new telescope, a bigger collider.
At the same time, they’ll also tell you...
Read This Label Carefully
A study led by UCLA psychologists has revealed that consumers often not only misremember produ...
2023-08-03 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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Welcome everyone to this week’s science news. Today we’ll talk about the new superconductor claim, bad news for new physics, a quantum radar, how to print origami, space-based solar power for a moon station, a dire prediction for the collapse of an ocean circulation, Europe’s ...
2023-07-31 17:05:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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Does this sound familiar? You go to a supermarket to get a new bathroom cleaner. One of them promises to be more sustainable and eco-friendlier, but the other one is cheaper. Which do you buy?
Many companies try to appear environmentally friendly without making a real differ...
Supercomputer Simulation Favours Warm Dark Matter
A snapshot of the cosmic web in the new supercomputer simulation. ...
2023-07-26 19:29:31 +0000 UTC View Post
