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Welcome everyone to this week’s science news. Today we’ll talk about Schrödinger’s cat, mind reading with artificial intelligence, a new theory for the origin of life, how many arms th...
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The adoption of artificial intelligence stagnated in 2018 when just about every second company 2023-05-06 12:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Particle physicists hope that after the Large Hadron Collider – cur...
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Welcome everyone to this week’s science news. Today we talk about wave-like dark matter, wires that learn, the core of planet mars, why quasars ignite, a superconducting highway, fabric that...
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Should transgender teens transition? This rather personal question occupies a prominent place in the American culture war. One the one side you have people claiming that it’s a socially cont...
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A team from the Italian Institute of Technology has created rechargeable batteries from edible componen...
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Welcome everyone to this week’s science news. Today we’ll talk about magnetic resonance imaging at record resolution, why the sun’s corona is so hot, nanoscale devices that can be reconf...
2023-04-26 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostYes, so.
Last year I made a video about trans athletes, which some of you may remember. This didn't have much to do with my interest in trans people, but more with my difficulty understanding the relevance of competitive sports. I think in...
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Quantum computing will revolutionize the world. If you trust the headlines. Which you should not. But whatever the headlines say there’s no doubt that quantum computing is attracting a *lot ...
2023-04-22 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostIn the past I have talked a lot about what you cannot do with a quantum computer. This weekend, I want to talk about what we can realistically expect. What could a quantum computer do, and how might they change our lives?
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The satellite WorldView 3, owned by the private company Maxar, normally looks ...
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Welcome everyone to this week’s science news. Today we’ll talk about artificial intelligence that rediscovered Kepler’s laws, solar flares in the laboratory, nano-surgery with tiny magn...
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Solar power is a nice idea. Except for the issue with the clouds. And the nights. So, how about we instead put solar panels up in space and then beam the energy down? This futuristic idea is ...
Tomorrow we'll talk about a topic I've meant to look at for a long time, space-based solar power. A lot has happened in this field in the past year, it's amazing. It looks like several nations will actually pull through with it! What are we to mak...
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After a painstaking six years of work, researchers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Caltech have put tog...
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Welcome everyone to this week’s science news! Today we’ll talk about magnetic fields on exoplanets, a new isotope of uranium, mysterious chemicals in the atmosphere, spectroscopy with quan...
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I believe there’s intelligent life on other planets. And the most plausible reason why they haven’t contacted us is that we’re too boring. I mean, we haven’t even figured out how to send...
If you've been following my channel for a long time, you may remember that I few years ago I made a video about faster-than-light travel. I was trying to explain why the arguments saying it's impossible are wrong but I think no one really understo...
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Researchers at the ...
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Welcome everybody to this week’s science news. Today we’ll talk about water on the moon, space skin, quantum light, how crystals grow, mind-controlled robots, blood as fuel, nano-ink, a ne...
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I recently learned there’s a new trend on social media: monk mode. First time I heard of this, I thought it means you pull a hood over your face and start brewing beer in the basement, but n...
2023-04-01 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostI recently learned there’s a new trend on social media: monk mode. It means cutting out distractions and going into self-isolation to become more productive. It’s supposedly based on science and particularly concerned with avoiding social medi...
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A group of Chinese researchers studied the samples brought back from the moon by the Ch...
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Welcome everyone to this week’s science news. Today we’ll talk a new explanation for the interstellar object Oumuamua, what’s up with the W-boson anomaly, two new institutes founded by N...
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You and I together are more than the sum of the parts. It’s not just that I know some things you don’t know, and you know some things I don’t know, like, how to prevent hair from lookin...
Researchers at Copenhagen Business School conducted a study with 375 part...
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Welcome everyone to this week’s science news. Today we’ll talk about a new comet, drone deliveries, how the hydrogen economy could actually make global warming worse, a better way to contr...
2023-03-22 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostHi All, I've taken down today's video about nuclear fusion to fix several blunders in the introduction. Unfortunately my videographer is away and I can't do it myself. It'll come back eventually. Sorry about that.
Update: Video is back up!<...
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Nuclear fusion is hot, both literally and financially. Nuclear fusion startups have attracted billions of dollars in the past years. And each of them thinks they’ll be the first to make it w...
2023-03-18 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostOn Saturday we'll survey different nuclear fusion startups. What are the different approaches, how far along are they, and what are the pros and cons. This video has been in the works for months and it's the longest video we've made so far, almost...
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