Sabine Hossenfelder
Science with Sabine
Science news and updates from Sabine Hossenfelder. As simple as possible, but not any simpler.
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Sabine Hossenfelder
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Jul 6, 2026
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Episodes
Weekly Digest: AI’s “Intelligence Explosion” Is Coming and more 29.06.2025 28:09
This is our weekly compilation of science news00:00 - Is the Cosmic Microwave Background a Huge Mistake?5:27 - AI’s “Intelligence Explosion” Is Coming. Here’s What That Means.11:11 - The Mystery Just Got Bigger: What are those particles in the Antarctic?16:36 - That’s Big: Natural Hydrogen Could Power World for 100,000 Years, Survey Finds22:08 - AI’s Real Threat: Mass Manipulation
Weekly Digest: Does AI Already Have Free Will? and more 23.06.2025 29:45
This is our weekly compilation of science news00:00 - Surprise Progress in Quantum Computing5:29 - Gold Mystery Finally Solved?11:24 - Does AI Already Have Free Will?17:09 - Gamechange: Theories Of Everything Can’t Exist, Physicists Show.22:42 - Is Our Universe Inside a Black Hole? This Makes it Plausible
Weekly Digest: AI is becoming dangerous. Are we ready? and more 16.06.2025 21:09
This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - AI is becoming dangerous. Are we ready?5:34 - We Have an Aura Of Visible Light, Here is what it looks like10:30 - Is Everything Computer? New Calculation Supports Simulation Hypothesis15:25 - Bombshell Paper Shows AI Has Thinking Collapse. Or Does It?
Weekly Digest: The Quantum Internet Is Real And Coming! and more 13.06.2025 21:34
This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - The Quantum Internet Is Real And Coming!5:06 - Stars Will Die Much Sooner Than We Thought, New Calculation Shows10:24 - Scientists Measure Qualia for First Time – It was thought to be impossible16:08 - New idea explains dark energy AND dark matter (maybe)
Weekly Digest: AI Slop Is Spreading In Science, Too and more 01.06.2025 21:59
This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - AI Slop Is Spreading In Science, Too 6:17 - Gravity Proves That We Live In A Simulation, Physicist Claims 11:11 - This New Laser Tech Might Be the Future of Computing 16:49 - China To Become First To Drill Through The Earth’s Crust
Weekly Digest: The USA is crumbling at the bottom and more 25.05.2025 21:26
This is our weekly compilation of science news. 00:00 - New Nuclear Fusion Record at NIF! Can laser fusion break even? 5:28 - The USA is crumbling at the bottom and sinking 10:05 - Gravity might be a force after all 15:11 - Black Holes might turn into White Holes, and make up dark matter, physicists say
Weekly Digest: Four Starlink Satellites Fell From The Sky Each Day, Creating New Worries and more 20.05.2025 21:11
This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - AI is too nice -- but it has a bigger problem5:27 - Trump's Science Cuts Might Have an Unexpected Benefit11:27 - Four Starlink Satellites Fell From The Sky Each Day, Creating New Worries17:12 - Chinese claim "First Successful Factorization of RSA-2028 Integer". I've had a look.
Weekly Digest: Four Starlink Satellites Fell From The Sky Each Day, Creating New Worries and more 11.05.2025 22:48
This is our weekly compilation of science news. 00:00 - AI is too nice -- but it has a bigger problem 5:27 - Trump's Science Cuts Might Have an Unexpected Benefit 11:27 - Four Starlink Satellites Fell From The Sky Each Day, Creating New Worries 17:12 - Chinese claim "First Successful Factorization of RSA-2028 Integer". I've had a look.
Weekly Digest: The AI Revolution Hiding in Obscure Research and more 28.04.2025 22:13
This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - Meet the Reactors Set to Upend Nuclear Fusion5:59 - The AI Revolution Hiding in Obscure Research11:37 - The Next Clean Fuel Hype Is Likely Ammonia16:56 - This correction of Einstein’s theory fixes black holes
There's Helium in Earth's Core, Researchers Say -- and other science news of the week 20.04.2025 27:04
This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - "Impossible" Device Creates Free Electricity from Earth's Magnetic Field5:25 - Researchers find major clue to consciousness10:49 - Did One Single Neutrino Just Prove Stephen Hawking Right?15:57 - There's Helium in Earth's Core, Researchers Say21:08 - My Take On Stephen Hawking’s Final Theory
Is CERN's $40 Billion Mega-Collider Already Doomed? -- and other science news of the week 14.04.2025 20:49
This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - New Research Reveals How AI “Thinks” (It Doesn’t)5:02 - Is CERN's $40 Billion Mega-Collider Already Doomed?10:57 - Nuclear Renaissance? Or Just Wishful Thinking?15:50 - The Entire Universe Seems to Spin, New Data Reveal
Amazon’s Quantum Breakthrough That Everyone Missed -- and other science news of the week 08.04.2025 22:59
This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - Amazon’s Quantum Breakthrough That Everyone Missed5:27 - First Nuclear Fusion Rocket Design Unveiled11:27 - Why US Professors are talking about fascism17:45 - We Already Have Evidence Of Dark Matter, Researchers Say
Huge Structures Discovered Under Pyramids? -- and other science news of the week 31.03.2025 35:27
This is our weekly ad-free compilation of science news.00:00 - Latest Data Challenges 25 Years of Cosmology6:09 - Sabotage AI Research, Google's Ex-CEO Recommends11:37 - New Nuclear Waste Battery Can Run For 5000 Years16:54 - US Military Wants to Grow Biological Structures in Space22:05 - Cosmology Crises are only Getting Worse27:45 - Huge Structures Discovered Under Pyramids?
Dark Matter Could Be Due to Extra Dimensions -- and other science news of the week 24.03.2025 24:44
This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - Atomic Anomaly Confirmed! Evidence for a “dark force”?5:22 - Dark Matter Could Be Due to Extra Dimensions11:23 - China Will Soon Lead World in Science and Tech16:49 - The Path to AGI is Coming Into View
Is AI the Solution for Quantum Computing? -- and other science news of the week 19.03.2025 23:02
This is our weekly compilation of science news00:00 - Einstein-Tile Discovered in Nature5:47 - Is AI the Solution for Quantum Computing? 11:18 - China Discovers 60,000-Year Supply of Thorium16:42 - This Simple New Experiment Could Find First Evidence for Quantum Gravity
Scientists Misreport Climate Cause of LA Wildfires -- and other science news of the week 10.03.2025 29:52
This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - Microsoft’s Topological Qubits Probably Don’t Exist, Researchers Warn6:58 - Scientists Misreport Climate Cause of LA Wildfires13:01 - Is Gravity Quantum? New Experiment Could Test Oppenheim's Bold Alternative18:26 - Magnetic Charges Could Actually Exist, Physicists Find24:02 - Time can run in two directions, new research finds
AI Gets Rapidly Smarter, And Makes Some of Us Dumber -- and other science news of the week 04.03.2025 22:51
This is our weekly ad-free compilation of science news. 00:00 - Earth’s Magnetic Field has a Hole, and it’s changing5:20 - AI Gets Rapidly Smarter, And Makes Some of Us Dumber11:58 - Our Universe Has Two Different Sides, Physicists Confirm17:15 - Geothermal Energy is Looking Better Than Ever
Microsoft Reports Quantum Computing Breakthrough -- and other science news of the week 25.02.2025 32:54
This is our weekly compilation of science news.00:00 - Trump and Musk Take On Academia6:16 - Large Hadron Collider can reveal how Universe Will End, New Director Says12:24 - 37 Dimensional Quantum Paradox To Improve Quantum Computing21:14 - Microsoft Reports Quantum Computing Breakthrough26:43 - No Audible Boom from First Test Flight of Supersonic Passenger Plane
This New Idea Could Explain the Laws of Nature -- and other science news of the week 17.02.2025 23:28
This is our weekly compilation of science news00:00 - “I'm pretty terrified by the pace of AI development” says OpenAI researcher who left company6:17 - A Big Nuclear Bomb Could Fix Climate Change, Physicist Says11:53 - This New Idea Could Explain the Laws of Nature17:20 - What’s Different About Helion Energy, the Nuclear Fusion Startup Backed by Sam Altman?
Everyone Is Giving Up On Climate Goals -- and other science news of the week 10.02.2025 23:11
This is our weeklycompilation of science news00:00 - Sam Altman Thinks We Need To Change Our Social Contract6:00 - The Wave-function of the Universe Might Finally Be Calculable12:52 - Everyone Is Giving Up On Climate Goals17:59 - Good news for faster-than-light travel. Bad news for time travel.
The case for String Theory just got stronger -- and other science news of the week 03.02.2025 29:08
This is our weekly compilation of science news. 00:00 - AI Super Agents are coming. Allegedly. What does this mean? 6:42 - The Case for String Theory Just Got Stronger 11:37 - Did DeepSeek burst the AI bubble or will the Stargate Project make it worse? 17:38 - Countries sign up for vaccines against bird flu in humans. 22:46 - New startup wants to build a conscious quantum computer
What Everyone Gets Wrong About AI -- and other science news of the week 28.01.2025 26:06
This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 - There’s a Third Type of Particle and We Never Knew 6:22 - What Everyone Gets Wrong About AI 13:43 - Fact Check: Did Physicists Really "Quash" the Multiverse Idea? 20:01 - A New Ice Age For Europe Is Becoming More Likely
Physicists Say They Know How Cold Fusion Works -- and other science news of the week 21.01.2025 23:01
This is our weekly compilation of science news. 00:00 - Physicists Say They Know How Cold Fusion Works 5:57 - Climate Engineering Is Coming, But Not Like You Think. 11:39 - Physicists Claim This $2 Billion Experiment Can Tell Us Why We Exist 17:16 - New Study Finds Alien Life Must Be Similar To Us
The Trouble with Carbon Dioxide Removal -- and other science news of the week 13.01.2025 24:27
This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 - Will We Get AGIs in 2025? 8:30 - String Theory is Falsifiable After All, String Theorists Say 14:00 - The Trouble with Carbon Dioxide Removal 19:26 - Have Researchers Found The First Evidence For String Theory?
Climate Scientists Are Very Confused -- and other science news of the week 07.01.2025 31:33
This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 - Civilization as we know it is ending, prominent forecaster says 6:00 - Dark Energy Is Not Real, New Data Analysis Finds 23:03 - Climate Scientists Are Very Confused 17:57 - Quantum Hype Goes Crazy. But Why? 26:00 - Hydrogen Hype is Dying, And That's a Good Thing
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