Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ physics and cosmology news • quantum mechanics, gravity, time, string theory • dark matter/energy, black holes, universe anomalies • quantum computing limits/breakthroughs, cryptography • AI progress, risks, scientific integrity • nuclear fusion, reactors, renewables, climate impacts
This podcast delivers weekly roundups of science news, with an emphasis on physics and adjacent technologies, explained in a plainspoken way. Across the episodes, a major throughline is fundamental physics: recurring topics include dark matter and dark energy, cosmology “crises” driven by new observations, black holes and exotic compact objects, and debates about the foundations of quantum mechanics (for example, what experiments imply about randomness, measurement, time, and whether particular interpretations can be ruled out). The show also frequently tracks attempts to connect quantum physics with gravity, along with speculative ideas such as wormholes, warp-drive proposals, parallel universes, and simulation claims—typically framed around what evidence exists and what would be required to test them.
A second consistent theme is computing and information, especially quantum computing and cryptography. The podcast revisits technical progress claims and skepticism about whether scalable quantum computers will work or make commercial sense, and discusses implications for encryption and systems like Bitcoin. Artificial intelligence is another prominent pillar: episodes address rapid capability growth, limits and “unfixable” problems, the reliability of AI-generated research, AI’s role in mathematics and physics, and societal impacts such as manipulation, labor displacement, and how people respond to AI.
Energy and climate-related science appear regularly, often through the lens of feasibility and engineering tradeoffs. Topics include nuclear fusion milestones, small or thorium reactors, geothermal energy, batteries and nuclear batteries, solar-power constraints, and debates about biofuels and emerging “clean fuel” hypes. Additional stories branch into Earth and space science (asteroids, interstellar objects, satellites, Earth’s magnetic field), materials and experiments, and occasional coverage of scientific institutions and research integrity.
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Episodes:
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Weekly Digest: How Google is Changing AI and more
2026-Mar-15
21 minutes
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Weekly Digest: The Simulation Hypothesis Gets Scientific Backing and more
2026-Mar-08
14 minutes
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Weekly Digest: Nuclear Fusion Reactors Could Produce Dark Matter, Physicists Show and more
2026-Mar-02
28 minutes
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Weekly Digest: Nuclear Fusion Breaks Multiple Records and more
2026-Feb-23
21 minutes
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Weekly Digest: We Live In Between Two HUGE Dark Matter Voids and more
2026-Feb-17
10 minutes
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Weekly Digest: The AI Maths Revolution Has Begun and more
2026-Feb-12
16 minutes
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Weekly Digest: Biofuels are Delusion, New Data Reveal and more
2026-Feb-03
17 minutes
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Weekly Digest: Finally a Use for String Theory and more
2026-Jan-19
18 minutes
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Weekly Digest: A Major Blow for Unified Physics and more
2026-Jan-12
23 minutes
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Weekly Digest: It’s The End Of An Era For Physics and more
2026-Jan-04
22 minutes
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Weekly Digest: Are We Using the Wrong Kind Of Electricity? and more
2025-Dec-29
23 minutes
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Weekly Digest: China Makes Breakthrough With Thorium Nuclear Reactor. Where is the West? and more
2025-Dec-22
21 minutes
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Weekly Digest: This Discovery Might Change What We Know About Life! and more
2025-Dec-14
30 minutes
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Weekly Digest: New Data Bring Trouble For Theory of Universe and more
2025-Dec-08
28 minutes
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Weekly Digest: Scientists may have detected dark matter and more
2025-Dec-01
22 minutes
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Weekly Digest: The Truth about Human-Caused Mass Extinction and more
2025-Nov-16
28 minutes
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Weekly Digest: This Is Why Humans Hate AI and more
2025-Nov-10
23 minutes
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Weekly Digest: Physicist Discover Hidden Rules of Life and more
2025-Nov-03
15 minutes
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Weekly Digest: Physicists Find Artificial Objects Around Earth Before We Had Satellites and more
2025-Oct-28
33 minutes
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Weekly Digest: Current AI Models have 3 Unfixable Problems and more
2025-Oct-21
27 minutes
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Weekly Digest: Mathematicians In Denial About AI Replacing Them and more
2025-Oct-12
27 minutes
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Weekly Digest: Academia’s Scam Problem is Getting Worse and more
2025-Oct-09
16 minutes
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Weekly Digest: Free Will Can Be Tested with Quantum Computer, Physicists Say and more
2025-Sep-29
33 minutes
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Weekly Digest: Physicists Find a Dark Matter Clump Near Us and more
2025-Sep-22
15 minutes
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Weekly Digest: Was Einstein Wrong about Randomness? and more
2025-Sep-15
21 minutes
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Weekly Digest: Crazy New Developments In Nuclear Battery Tech and more
2025-Sep-08
21 minutes
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Weekly Digest: This Is What Happens After A Nuclear War and more
2025-Sep-01
18 minutes
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Weekly Digest: Is AI Breaking Science Right Now? and more
2025-Aug-25
26 minutes
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Weekly Digest: Stunning! AI “Creativity” Is Highly Predictable, Researchers Find and more
2025-Aug-18
28 minutes
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Weekly Digest: New Theory: Space Has Memory, Stores Information and more
2025-Aug-11
20 minutes
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Weekly Digest: Mass Extinction Isn’t What We Thought and more
2025-Aug-04
20 minutes
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Weekly Digest: Leaking Nuclear Waste Barrels Found on Ocean Floor and more
2025-Jul-29
10 minutes
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Weekly Digest: The Cosmology Crisis Just Got Even Worse and more
2025-Jul-21
15 minutes
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Weekly Digest: Has One Man Just Saved String Theory? and more
2025-Jul-14
22 minutes
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Weekly Digest: AI’s Breakthrough on 125 Year-Old Physics Problem and more
2025-Jul-06
21 minutes
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Weekly Digest: AI’s “Intelligence Explosion” Is Coming and more
2025-Jun-29
28 minutes
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Weekly Digest: Does AI Already Have Free Will? and more
2025-Jun-23
29 minutes
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Weekly Digest: AI is becoming dangerous. Are we ready? and more
2025-Jun-16
21 minutes
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Weekly Digest: The Quantum Internet Is Real And Coming! and more
2025-Jun-13
21 minutes
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Weekly Digest: AI Slop Is Spreading In Science, Too and more
2025-Jun-01
21 minutes
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Weekly Digest: The USA is crumbling at the bottom and more
2025-May-25
21 minutes
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Weekly Digest: Four Starlink Satellites Fell From The Sky Each Day, Creating New Worries and more
2025-May-20
21 minutes
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Weekly Digest: Four Starlink Satellites Fell From The Sky Each Day, Creating New Worries and more
2025-May-11
22 minutes
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Weekly Digest: The AI Revolution Hiding in Obscure Research and more
2025-Apr-28
22 minutes
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There's Helium in Earth's Core, Researchers Say -- and other science news of the week
2025-Apr-20
27 minutes
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Is CERN's $40 Billion Mega-Collider Already Doomed? -- and other science news of the week
2025-Apr-14
20 minutes
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Amazon’s Quantum Breakthrough That Everyone Missed -- and other science news of the week
2025-Apr-08
22 minutes
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Huge Structures Discovered Under Pyramids? -- and other science news of the week
2025-Mar-31
35 minutes
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Dark Matter Could Be Due to Extra Dimensions -- and other science news of the week
2025-Mar-24
24 minutes
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Is AI the Solution for Quantum Computing? -- and other science news of the week
2025-Mar-19
23 minutes
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Scientists Misreport Climate Cause of LA Wildfires -- and other science news of the week
2025-Mar-10
29 minutes
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AI Gets Rapidly Smarter, And Makes Some of Us Dumber -- and other science news of the week
2025-Mar-04
22 minutes
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Microsoft Reports Quantum Computing Breakthrough -- and other science news of the week
2025-Feb-25
32 minutes
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This New Idea Could Explain the Laws of Nature -- and other science news of the week
2025-Feb-17
23 minutes
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Everyone Is Giving Up On Climate Goals -- and other science news of the week
2025-Feb-10
23 minutes
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The case for String Theory just got stronger -- and other science news of the week
2025-Feb-03
29 minutes
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What Everyone Gets Wrong About AI -- and other science news of the week
2025-Jan-28
26 minutes
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Physicists Say They Know How Cold Fusion Works -- and other science news of the week
2025-Jan-21
23 minutes
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The Trouble with Carbon Dioxide Removal -- and other science news of the week
2025-Jan-13
24 minutes
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Climate Scientists Are Very Confused -- and other science news of the week
2025-Jan-07
31 minutes
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Scientists Uncover Hidden Pattern in Quantum Chaos -- and other science news of the week
2024-Dec-31
22 minutes
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This Physics Problem is Unsolvable -- and other science news of the week
2024-Dec-16
22 minutes
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Moore’s Law is So Back -- and other science news of the week
2024-Dec-09
23 minutes
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We’ve Been Searching For Aliens All Wrong, Researchers Say -- and other science news of the week
2024-Dec-02
23 minutes
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Webb Falsified Dark Matter Prediction -- and other science news of the week
2024-Nov-25
35 minutes
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New Theory: Dark Energy Might Be Black Holes -- and other science news of the week
2024-Nov-17
22 minutes
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Scientists Discover a Law of Natural Laws -- and other science news of the week
2024-Nov-11
23 minutes
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This new “AI Scientist” can “fully automate discovery" -- and other science news of the week
2024-Nov-04
23 minutes
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Tiny Black Holes Might Have Left Holes in… Everything
2024-Oct-29
23 minutes
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The Quantum Computing Collapse Has Begun -- and other science news of the week
2024-Oct-23
22 minutes
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Surprise Comeback: Dark Energy Could Be Holographic After All -- and other science news of the week
2024-Oct-14
28 minutes
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These physicists say they know what's inside a black hole -- and other science news of the week
2024-Oct-07
29 minutes
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This Lawsuit Could Change Science -- and other science news of the week
2024-Sep-30
34 minutes
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No, Einstein Didn’t Solve the Biggest Problem in Physics -- and other science news of the week
2024-Sep-24
29 minutes
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This New Idea to Detect a Quantum of Gravity Might Just Work -- and other science news of the week
2024-Sep-17
17 minutes
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Nuclear Fusion Predictions are Nonsense -- and other science news of the week
2024-Sep-09
29 minutes
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Core Meltdown Emergency Test At Chinese Nuclear Reactor -- and other science news of the week
2024-Sep-02
35 minutes
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Will This Crazy Idea Make Mars Habitable? -- and other science news of the week
2024-Aug-26
24 minutes
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Are childless people a problem? -- and other science news of the week
2024-Aug-19
31 minutes
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Musk Promises Superhuman Vision, Experts Say It’s Nonsense -- and other science news of the week
2024-Aug-11
27 minutes
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Faster than Light Particles Could Exist After All -- and other science news of the week
2024-Aug-05
32 minutes
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The Trouble with Heat Pumps -- and other science news of the week
2024-Jul-29
31 minutes
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Fossil Fuels Don’t Come From Fossils? Tucker Carlson Fact Check - and other science news of the week
2024-Jul-29
35 minutes
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“The most dumb thing" for energy storage: Hydrogen -- and other science news of the week
2024-Jul-15
31 minutes
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AI could prove that reality doesn’t exist, physicists say -- and other science news of the week
2024-Jul-08
23 minutes
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I don't think we can control AI much longer -- and other science news of the week
2024-Jul-01
30 minutes
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Is Bitcoin Mining Good for the Environment?
2024-Jun-26
17 minutes
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This New Idea Could Explain Complexity -- and other science news of the week
2024-Jun-24
24 minutes
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AI Learned to Lie Deliberately -- and other science news of the week
2024-Jun-23
31 minutes
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The Benefits of Climate Change -- and other science news of the week
2024-Jun-17
23 minutes
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Actor Claims His New Theory of Everything Improves Physics -- and other science news of the week
2024-Jun-17
32 minutes
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Space-Based Solar Power is Dead -- and other science news of the week
2024-Jun-17
23 minutes
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Time to Get Real About Climate Change -- and other science news of the week
2024-May-19
24 minutes
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Einstein's Other Theory of Everything
2024-May-19
12 minutes
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Scientific Progress Has Slowed Down -- and other science news of the week
2024-May-19
28 minutes
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Fusion in Space: New Plasma Thruster Tested Successfully -- and other science news of the week
2024-May-19
24 minutes
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Scandal over Nuclear Phase-out in Germany -- and other science news of the week
2024-May-19
27 minutes
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Modified Gravity Strikes Back -- and other science news of the week
2024-Apr-26
23 minutes
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New Superconductor Scandal -- and other Science News of the week
2024-Apr-17
43 minutes
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Search for Quantum Gravity Begins at South Pole -- and other science news of the week
2024-Apr-17
39 minutes
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New Theory says Irrationality comes from Quantum Physics -- and other science news of the week
2024-Apr-17
28 minutes
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The Butterfly Effect is much Worse than We Thought -- And Other Science News
2024-Apr-17
42 minutes
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How I fell out of love with academia
2024-Apr-08
13 minutes
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New Theory of Gravity Needs No Dark Matter -- And other Science News of the Week
2024-Mar-23
36 minutes
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Scientists warn of AI collapse -- And other Science News of the Week
2024-Mar-10
33 minutes
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Black holes might have layers with dark energy inside -- and other science news of the week
2024-Mar-04
44 minutes
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A new type of magnetism -- and other science news of the week
2024-Mar-04
36 minutes
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Most robust time crystal ever -- And other Science News of the Week
2024-Feb-25
37 minutes
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String theory nonsense makes comeback -- And other news of the week
2024-Feb-11
43 minutes
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I wasn't worried about climate change. Now I am.
2024-Feb-11
19 minutes
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AI Experts predict Megadeaths -- And other Science News of the Week
2024-Feb-02
29 minutes
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Icelanders plan to drill into Magma Chamber -- And Other Science News of the Week
2024-Feb-02
25 minutes
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Big Rip seems unlikely in light of new data -- And other science news of the week
2024-Jan-21
22 minutes
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AI could kill quantum computing -- And other science news of the week
2024-Jan-11
29 minutes
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Why is nuclear power so expensive?
2023-Dec-31
26 minutes
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Gravity is not a force. But what does this mean?
2023-Dec-31
14 minutes
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The experiment that could save physics (and other science news of the week)
2023-Dec-31
38 minutes
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The biggest gap in science: complexity
2023-Dec-17
16 minutes
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A new competitor for string theory (and other science news of the week)
2023-Dec-17
21 minutes
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These scientists got sued for doing their job
2023-Dec-17
15 minutes
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A particle accelerator that's just 10 cm long, and other science news of the week
2023-Dec-08
18 minutes
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Why was Sam Altman fired from Open AI? And other science news of the week.
2023-Nov-30
18 minutes
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All you need to know about Long COVID
2023-Nov-30
18 minutes
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Is Science Dying?
2023-Nov-22
14 minutes
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Mars glows green, and other science news of the week
2023-Nov-22
15 minutes
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Net Zero will Be Virtually Impossible To Reach Without Carbon Removal
2023-Nov-17
16 minutes
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New Data Spells Trouble for Dark Matter's Biggest Competitor
2023-Nov-17
16 minutes
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The lost continent of Argoland has been found -- And other science news of the week
2023-Nov-10
13 minutes
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Science News Nov 01: The sun's magnetic field will flip earlier than expected
2023-Nov-02
13 minutes
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Beyond the Hype: All you need to know about Ozempic and Wegovy
2023-Oct-30
14 minutes
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Science News October 25: Coin Tossing is Unfair, Science Proves It
2023-Oct-30
15 minutes
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Does the Many Worlds Interpretation make sense?
2023-Oct-23
7 minutes
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Three New Laws of Nature in One Week!
2023-Oct-20
14 minutes
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Is time travel possible?
2023-Oct-15
16 minutes
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Science News Oct 14: A New Candidate for a Cosmic String
2023-Oct-14
16 minutes
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Quantum Computing in 2023: Three Newcomers
2023-Oct-08
16 minutes
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Science News Oct 4: Nobel Prize in Physics 2023
2023-Oct-04
16 minutes
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Science News Sep 26: Quantum Computing at Room Temperature?
2023-Sep-26
17 minutes
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Is the universe pointless?
2023-Sep-24
15 minutes
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Science News Sep 18: Possible Signs of Life on an Exoplanet
2023-Sep-18
17 minutes
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Don't trust me, I'm an influencer!
2023-Sep-16
15 minutes
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Science News Sep 12, 2023
2023-Sep-12
16 minutes
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Web3: Next internet revolution or just a scam?
2023-Sep-09
16 minutes
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I do my own research. And so can you.
2023-Aug-26
17 minutes
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Science News Aug 22: Quantum Superchemistry!
2023-Aug-22
17 minutes
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Do we have a mental health crisis?
2023-Aug-19
14 minutes
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Fermilab Finds Feeble Fifth Force (Maybe)
2023-Aug-16
19 minutes
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Is Moore's Law Dead?
2023-Aug-12
20 minutes
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Science News Aug 8 2023: Superconductor LK 99 Update
2023-Aug-08
16 minutes
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Do we have evidence for new physics? Or not?
2023-Aug-05
18 minutes
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Science News July 31: A new room-temperature superconductor?
2023-Jul-31
17 minutes
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Greenwashing: Spot and Avoid It
2023-Jul-29
15 minutes
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Science News July 26: Einstein was right, again!
2023-Jul-26
18 minutes
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Are personality tests the new horoscopes?
2023-Jul-23
18 minutes
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Science News July 19 2023: Evidence for Dark Stars?
2023-Jul-19
16 minutes
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