Science with Sabine

This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 - Time is an Illusion, And These Physicists Say They Know How It Works 5:21 - The REAL Problem with Warp Drives 10:43 - Musk Promises Superhuman Vision, Experts Say It’s Nonsense 16:42 - New Quantum Computing Paradigm Could Make all the Difference 22:04 - ANOTHER dark matter experiment finds nothing -- Why keep doing it?

This is our weekly compilation of science news. 00:00 - Faster than Light Particles Could Exist After All 6:00 - Small modular reactor fuel could be used to build nuclear bomb, experts warn 12:03 - Dark Matter Solves Longstanding Black Hole Problem, Astrophysicists Say 17:35 - How could we tell whether AI has become conscious? 26:41 - Random Code Can Learn to Self-Replicate, New Study Finds

This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 - Costs explode for Nuclear Fusion Flagship project 5:10 - Americans Sue to Remain Misinformed 10:54 - AI Hype: “Billions of dollars will be incinerated” Business Analysts Warn 16:32 - The Trouble with Heat Pumps 26:04 - Groundbreaking New Solar Energy System – Too Good to be True?

This is our weekly compilation of science news. 00:00 - Quantum Computing Hype Goes Wild: Bullshit Headlines Everywhere 5:21 - This Climate Graph has a Nasty Secret 9:56 - Why don't we have better robots yet? 15:39 - Fossil Fuels Don’t Come From Fossils? Tucker Carlson Fact Check 29:09 - From Space Thruster to Nappy Bin: Plasmas are Everywhere

This is our weekly compilation of science news

00:00 - Stop blaming fossil fuel companies – Climate Change is our own fault

6:09 - These tiny fractals could make quantum computing work

11:56 - “The most dumb thing" for energy storage: Hydrogen

18:41 - Think you understand Quantum Physics? Try This.

25:19 - New Batteries: It’s Not All Hype

This is our weekly ad-free compilation of science news. 00:00 - Why Bill Gates’ New Natrium Reactor is a Big Deal 4:57 - Physicists Claim They Can Send Particles Into the Past 11:06 - AI could prove that reality doesn’t exist, physicists say 17:42 - Time Ran Slower in the Past, Physicists Find

This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 - String Theorists Have Calculated the Value of Pi 6:01 - Bad news for dark matter: This data doesn't fit at all 11:11 - I don't think we can control AI much longer. Here's why. 17:12 - What will they think about us in 2085? 22:26 - AI passed the Turing Test -- And No One Noticed

I was under the impression that Bitcoin mining was bad for the environment. It turns out that the situation is much more controversial and interesting than I originally thought. So what is it, is bitcoin good? Or is it bad? Let’s have a look.

This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 - This New Idea Could Explain Complexity 5:44 - Gravity Without Mass Could Explain Dark Matter 11:17 - Biggest Self-Own in Quantum Computing, Ever 16:39 - Climate scientists can't agree on how warm it is

This is our weekly compilation of science news. 00:00 - AI Learned to Lie Deliberately 5:53 - This Could Test Stephen Hawking's Prediction 11:24 - Is the Intelligence-Explosion Near? A Reality Check 20:20 - Big News for Quantum Computing: First Scalable Platforms 26:17 - Dark Energy comes from Anti-Universe, New Theory Says

This is our ad-free compilation of science news 00:00 - AI's Dirty Little Secret 5:27 - Musk is Right: Neutrinos are Evidence for New Physics 11:39 - "Are we the idiots?" - Bill Gates on Planting Trees 18:16 - The Benefits of Climate Change

This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 - A Huge Cosmology Problem Might Just Have Disappeared 5:36 - Alien Megastructure Candidates – Not as Crazy as it Sounds! 11:05 - How to Detect Quantum Bullshit 17:29 - Actor Claims His New Theory of Everything Improves Physics 26:23 - The Hypersonic Arms Race: What You Need to Know

This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 - Space-Based Solar Power is Dead 5:46 - Climate Change Violates Human Rights, Court Finds 11:43 - Forget GPT-4o's voice -- the real problem with AI is us 17:38 - Unapproved Trial for Discredited COVID Cure: Scandal In France

This is our weekly compilation of science news. 00:00 - Geothermal Power Everywhere: Tech Advances Rapidly 5:33 - Time to Get Real About Climate Change 11:24 - A New Test for Quantum Gravity 18:00 - Universe Was Once Divided into Cells, New Study Says

Einstein completed his theory of general relativity in 1915 when he was 37 years old. What did he do for the remaining 40 years of his life? He continued developing his masterwork of course! Feeling that his theory was incomplete, Einstein pursued a unified field theory. Though he ultimately failed, the ideas he came up with were quite interesting. I have read a lot of old Einstein papers in the past weeks and here is my summary of what I believe he tried to do. This video comes with a quiz which you can take here.

This is our weekly compilation of science news. 00:00 - They Named an Asteroid After Me 5:46 - The Era of Nuclear Precision has Begun 10:30 - Scientific Progress Has Slowed Down 16:43 - CERN Looks for Origins of Quantum Randomness 22:35 - Brain Really Uses Quantum Effects

This is our weekly compilation of science news. 00:00 - New Experiment Could Settle 100 Years-Old Debate about Quantum Tunneling 5:08 - Fusion in Space: New Plasma Thruster Tested Successfully 12:47 - The Multiverse just Got Bigger: An Upgrade for the Many Worlds Interpretation 18:34 - Bird Flu Spreads to Dairy Cattle, Farm Worker Infected, Virus Fragments in Milk

This is our weekly compilation of science news:

00:00 - Institute for Extinction Risk Shuts Down: What We Know 5:47 - Are we surrounded by dark energy? A spacecraft tetrad will look for it 10:48 - Energy from Air While Removing CO2: How does it work? 16:03 - I thought Electric Cars Were the Future. I Changed My Mind 21:59 - Scandal over Nuclear Phase-Out in Germany: What We Know

This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 - This Fusion Startup Is a Strong Newcomer 5:30 - Modified Gravity Strikes Back 12:24 - AI More Energy Efficient than Humans, New Study Finds 17:42 - I thought Electric Cars Were the Future. I Changed My Mind

This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 - New Superconductor Scandal 7:17 - Climate Change Makes Days Longer 11:49 - Musk: Are Quantum Computers even good for Something? 17:19 - Charging While Driving: Does it Work? 22:44 - How Noise Improves Computing 32:45 - Warp Drives: New Simulations 38:10 - Gravitational Waves Necessary for Human Existence, New Study Finds

This is our weekly compilation of science news. 00:00 - Quantum Internet -- No One Needs This 5:55 - New Experiment at CERN to look for "hidden particles" 10:48 - Search for Quantum Gravity Begins at South Pole 16:42 - How AI could go wrong -- and how it could save us all 22:18 - Self-heating Concrete Melts Snow -- No Power Required 27:56 - My First Solar Eclipse -- What I am looking forward to 34:28 - Are Wildfires Good?

This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 - Should I be terrified of climate change? 5:43 - First Simulation Of Quantum Physics Near Rotating Black Hole 11:58 - Particle Physics' Most Famous Anomaly (almost) Solved 16:40 - New Theory says Irrationality comes from Quantum Physics 23:11 - Sulphur as Energy Storage

This is our weekly compilation of science news. 00:00 - The Butterfly Effect is Much Worse Than We Thought 5:54 - We Need to Stop Lying About Plastic... To Ourselves 12:19 - The Black Hole in our Galaxy is Weird 17:30 - Why is Life Left-Handed? 24:27 - Nuclear Fusion: Rapid Progress for Inertial Confinement 29:57 - Cloud Seeding May Cause Global Water War 35:24 - Energy is not AIs Biggest Problem

This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 - New Idea Solves Three Physics Mysteries at Once 6:00 - Record Quantum Computation at D-Wave: Millions of Years Down To Seconds 11:54 - We Need to Start Climate Engineering Soon, New Study Says 18:33 - Credentials against Deepfakes: How will it work? 24:20 - This Obscure Maths Will Revolutionize Data Privacy 29:53 - Q-Day Is Coming: Quantum Computers Will Decode National Secrets

This is our weekly compilation of science news:

0:00 - Scientists warn of AI collapse 4:35 - New Compact Disks could exceed petabytes of memory storage 9:50 - New rumors of sentient AI 13:57 - New heat pumps could actually make a difference 22:20 - Exploding stars made of dark matter could heat up universe 28:27 - What do two-letter domain endings mean?

This is our weekly compilation of science news:
00:00 Quantum Inertia Drive Test Fails 07:28 A quantum measurement of gravity -- what does it mean?
15:26 More on climate sensitivity
23:07 Black holes might have layers with dark energy inside
29:53 Why do astrophysicists keep finding things that shouldn't exist?
37:02 Atoms in tweezers make huge progress

This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 Chinese maglev breaks its own speed record 04:31 The hydrogen revolution might come after all 11:09 Bad news for quantum computing 17:34 Radical new theory proposes to throw out energy conservation 24:00 New type of magnetism confirmed 30:00 Small nuclear thorium reactors coming to Europe

This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 Aging is reversible -- in glass 06:16 AI survey among 3000 experts 11:53 Americans surprisingly rational about Climate Change, Germany Study finds 17:38 Emission lies everywhere 24:37 Most robust time crystal ever 30:33 Scientific Fraud is getting more common

This is our weekly compilation of science news

00:00 Zuckerberg is right about the mental health risks of social media 06:17 String theory nonsense makes comeback 12:46 New battery charges in 5 minutes 17:36 First Nuclear Plasma control with Digital Twin 24:30 Details about big new collider at CERN emerge 30:04 IPCC Climate Change Mitigation Plans Unrealistic, New Study Says 37:00 Dark Matter might be Made of Singularities

In this episode I explain what climate sensitivity is and why it is important. Climate sensitivity is a number that roughly speaking tells us how fast climate change will get worse. A few years ago, after various software improvements, a bunch of climate models began having a much higher climate sensitivity than previously. Climate scientists have come up with reasons for why to ignore this. I think it's a bad idea to ignore this. This episode comes with a quiz which you can take here.

This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 Does handwriting make us dumb? 05:54 A tsunami devastated stone-age Britain. Can it happen again? 12:00 First experiment to test process that could have started universe 17:44 Google unveils new AI that can reason logically 23:21 AI Experts predict Megadeaths

This is our weekly summary of science news. In this episode: 00:00 Quantum Cheshire Cat Debunked 07:00 Icelanders plan to drill into Magma Chamber (this time on purpose) 14:03 Experiment to look for quantum jumps of massive objects 19:20 Non-profit wants YouTube to crack down on "new" climate denial

In this episode: - Big Rip seems unlikely in light of new data - New Nuclear Battery might soon go onto the market - Extreme Weather Events Underestimated - Flash Proton Therapy going into first trials

In this week's episode: A new semiconductor, space-debris that could, AI could kill quantum computing, whether we could we get a runaway greenhouse effect on earth, and a new supercomputer will match human brain

Out of the many bad arguments against nuclear power, there are two good arguments: It's too expensive and the power plants take too long to build. But are they true? And if so, why is it that nuclear power is so slow and so costly? This episode comes with a quiz which you can take here.

Just exactly what does it mean that gravity is not a force? In this episode, I will revisit the question and explain why you are currently accelerating upwards, and how Einstein's equivalence principle works. The quiz for this episode is here.

This is our weekly compilation of science news. In this episode:

- Particle physicists make wishlist - Did life come from molecular gas clouds in outer space? - The experiment that could save physics - Is there science behind a fossil fuel phase-out - Solar panels better than forests, new study says - Methane in the oceans: A disaster waiting to come? - Poland authorizes small modular reactor construction

The quiz for this episode is here.

Everyone loves to talk about complex problems and complex systems, but no one has any idea what it means. I think that understanding complexity is THE biggest gap in science today. What do we even mean by complexity? What do we know about it? And what’s the problem with trying to explain it? That’s what we’ll talk about in this video. This episode comes with a quiz which you can take here.

In this week's science news, we have a new contender for a theory of quantum gravity, claim that a famous proof is wrong, bad climate news, the first transatlantic flight with sustainable aviation fuel, IBM's first quantum chip with more than 1000 qubits, the "Brick" in the Milky Way and what it might be, the rise of transgender identifications in the UK, and of course the telephone will ring. The quiz for this episode is here.

Science and the law come in to conflict more often than you might think. In this episode I want to tell you about several cases that I have followed which have concerned me greatly. The issue here isn't the actual scientific evidence, it is rather the way that scientists pursue and discuss this evidence, usually in a straight-forward and frank manner that doesn't sit well with courts. Please feel free to support Data Colada's legal defense here. This episode comes with a quiz which you can take here.

In this episode we have an experiment that wants to measure nothing, a particle accelerator that's just 10 cm long, a nucleus the shape of a dumbbell, a drone that saved 6 lives, what social media does to your health, antibubbles, deepspace communication, and how bitcoin mining might help the environment.

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 AI-chip, why spiral galaxies like the Milky Way are so rare, how climate engineering could save the Antarctic, cannibalistic stars, and of course the telephone will ring. The quiz for this episode is here.

Estimates say that as many as 1 in 10 people who had COVID were still affected more than 3 months later. This health condition has become known as long COVID. In this video, we will be discussing what long COVID is, how long it lasts, how common it is, what you should do if you think you’re affected, and more. This episode comes with a quiz which you can take here.

Is science coming to an end? On the one hand, it seems like scientific progress has slowed to a crawl and no big breakthroughs are happening any more. On the other hand, we are left with many unsolved problems in science that I am pretty sure have a solution. In this episode, I explain why I think that we need to seriously consider the possibility that we live in the final phase of scientific discovery.

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 entire moon as a gravitational wave detector, progress with D-wave’s quantum computer, why Saturn’s rings will temporarily become invisible, wires that learn, energy from indoor lights, and of course, the telephone will ring. The quiz for this episode is here.

Everyone is talking about Net Zero. 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? For this video, we have collected all facts and numbers that you need to join the discussion. This episode comes with a quiz which you can take here.

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 the moon are stuck in the mantle of earth, a new and quite plausible explanation for the sudden dimming and brightening of the star Betelgeuse, plans for a smaller and more energy-efficient particle collider, the first full colour images from the EUCLID mission, earthquakes in the laboratory, a microscopic engine with record efficiency, plans to produce hydrogen with small nuclear reactors, climate scientists who say we’d be better off cooking with synthetic oil, and of course, the telephone will ring. The quiz for this video is here.

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 footage, a new record for a single photon camera, an asteroid that might contain chemical elements which are not in the periodic table, super lightning bolts, solar glass, and of course, the telephone will ring. This episode comes with a quiz which you can take here.

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, we’ll have a look at the tiniest particle accelerator ever, why airline pricing is such a mess, hear what the International energy agency has to say about the condition of our electric grids, how physics improves protein folding predictions, the most water-repellent surface ever, and of course, the telephone will ring.

This episode comes with a quiz which you can take here.

The weight-loss drugs Wegovy and Ozempic seem god-sent solutions for everyone who has been struggling to lose weight, a miracle cure for a problem that befalls billions of people, even Elon Musk. But what makes the drug so effective? What do we know about it? And who’s going to pay for it? This episode comes with a quiz which you can take here.

Today we will 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 consumption, and of course the telephone will ring.

You can take the quiz for this episode here.

In today's episode I explain why the many world's interpretation is neither simple nor local.

This episode comes with a quiz which you can take here.

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 understand what they chat about, a new type of qubit with a low error rate, sound waves in crystals, how to deflect lasers with nothing but air, dunes on mars, the first hurricane prediction market, and of course, the telephone will ring.

This episode comes with a quiz which you can take here.

What does physics say about time travel? Surprisingly enough it doesn't just say it's impossible, it's more complicated than that. In this video I'll sort out what Einstein's general relativity and quantum mechanics tell us about time travel. And is MIT really building a time machine to find dark matter? We'll get to that. This video has a quiz which you can take here.

In this week's science news, I 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 black holes, AI that wants to help find aliens, how to compute with photons, and of course, the telephone will ring.

This episode comes with a quiz.

What if we could harness the power of photons to process information? We can! It's called photonic computing. It's one of the new approaches to quantum computing - and it's looking more and more likely that it could be the key to make quantum computers work. It's not the only newcomer. In this video, we'll take a look at photonic computing and two other newcomers: optical tweezers and topological quantum computing. Maybe the breakthrough for quantum tech is just around the corner. Make your new knowledge stick! This episode comes with a quiz.

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 nothing to do with antigravity, the world’s most powerful X-ray laser, how life could come about on other planets, why we might go extinct sooner than expected, and of course, the telephone will ring.

This episode comes with a quiz that you can take here.

Today we 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 for brain cancer that’s got something to do with quantum mechanics, whether climate change drives migration, and of course, the telephone will ring.

The quiz for this episode is here.

If people knew one thing about Steven Weinberg, it’d be a quote from one of his books: “The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.” In this episode, I want to speculate about what he might have meant. Is the universe pointless?

Today we 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, wifi that can see through walls, origami robots, the 2024 Breakthrough Prizes, and of course, the telephone will ring.

Today I 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 what are the problems with it? Interestingly enough, it's a question that scientists have studied.

Today we 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 launch of a new X-ray space mission, drone racing, and of course the telephone will ring.

What is web3? I've tried to figure it out and here is my summary of what I have learned about NFTs and cryptocurrencies, about dapps and defi and blockchains, and all that.

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’re an expert yourself. Don’t you dare commenting on anything you don’t have a PhD in!
I think this nonsense has been going on for long enough. So I’m here to say: It’s of course completely okay if you do your own research, provided you do it right. But how do you do that? That’s what we’ll talk about today.

Today we 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 about preventing hurricanes, and of course, the telephone will ring.

I've seen a lot of headlines recently that we supposedly have a mental health crisis. Some say it's global, some refer to specific countries, the USA, Spain, Australia. What is going on? In this episode we collect all the numbers and see what we can make of them.

Today we 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, delay with NASA’s trip to the moon, freeze rays, the smallest traffic light ever, and of course, the telephone will ring.

In the past 10 years or so, tech specialists have repeatedly voiced concerns that the progress of computing power will soon hit the wall. Miniaturisation has physical limits, and then what? Have we reached these limits? Is Moore’s law dead? That’s what we’ll talk about today.

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 cosmological structure formation, how to steer drops with ultrasound, bacteria that make plastic, an improvement for wireless power transfer, better earthquake warnings, an attempt to predict war, and of course the telephone will ring.

Here is the link to the overview on the LK99 reproduction experiments that I mentioned.

You've heard physicists say that we know new physics is out there. You've also heard them say that there's no data in conflict with either Einstein's theories or the standard model. So what gives? I will explain the situation with the mass of the Higgs-boson, dark matter and dark energy, neutrino-masses, the matter-antimatter asymmetry, and quantum gravity.

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 first hyperloop test, why NASA shoots lasers at the rain forest, and of course, the telephone will ring.

Many companies try to appear environmentally friendly without making a real difference, a strategy that’s been dubbed “greenwashing”. So, is calling a product or service “eco-friendly” just a ploy of companies to get more money out of us? What are the consequences for climate change? And how can we spot those fake claims?

Today we’ll talk about Einstein, who was right again, metals that heal, a new type of stellar object, a quantum drum, how conscious awareness comes about, maybe, a better way to tell apart alien signals from boring human signals, a hot spot on the moon, illegal trade of hazardous chemicals, and of course, the telephone will ring!

Have you ever taken a personality test? I certainly did. Recently I began wondering what the Myers Briggs and Big Five tests actually tell me. Is there science behind those tests? Or are they just better horoscopes? In this video, I'll tell you what I've found.

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Today we’ll fly 13 billion years back in time, talk about dark stars, quantum payments, the efficiency of solar cells, rubber that counts, a biodiversity cycle, scientists who shoot lasers at lava, how to dissolve plastic, and of course, the telephone will ring.

For the time being, our podcast is the audio of a video, so on occasion there are references to visuals. You can watch the video here.