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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 ...
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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 2023-12-08 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
I'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 a...
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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 Collide...
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 ...
2023-12-06 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
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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’ me...
2023-12-02 13:00:37 +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 ...
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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 affecte...
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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 th...
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...
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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 m...
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 ...
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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 bigges...
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...
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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...
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 dr...
2023-10-28 12:00:07 +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 ...
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 ficti...
2023-10-21 12:00:06 +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 hav...
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 2023-10-14 12:00:06 +0000 UTC
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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 fir...
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