Sabine Hossenfelder
Science with Sabine
Science news and updates from Sabine Hossenfelder. As simple as possible, but not any simpler.
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Oct 19, 2026
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Episodes
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
Scientists Uncover Hidden Pattern in Quantum Chaos -- and other science news of the week 31.12.2024 22:29
This is our weekly compilation of science news. 00:00 - Scientists Uncover Hidden Pattern in Quantum Chaos 5:21 - This Firm Says It’s 6 Years Away From Making Energy From Fusion 11:24 - Physicists Claim They Solved Schrödinger's Cat Problem 16:46 - Jeff Bezos’ Space Plans Make More Sense Than Elon Musk's
This Physics Problem is Unsolvable -- and other science news of the week 16.12.2024 22:17
This is our weekly compilation of science news. 00:00 - AIs Predict Research Results Without Doing Research 5:29 -Universe Had Two Big Bangs, Physicists Say 11:03 - Our Sun Can Make Superflares Once a Century, Study Finds 16:12 - This Physics Problem is Unsolvable
Moore’s Law is So Back -- and other science news of the week 09.12.2024 23:33
This is our weekly compilation of science news. 00:00 - Quantum Computing Is Dangerous and Must Be Regulated, Scientists Warn 5:30 - Moore's Law is So Back 11:40 - This Theory of Everything Actually Makes a Prediction: New Physics in Black Holes 17:50 - Life Began Much Faster Than We Thought
We’ve Been Searching For Aliens All Wrong, Researchers Say -- and other science news of the week 02.12.2024 23:48
This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 - AI Could Make Quantum Computing Obsolete, Nobel Prize Winner Says 6:57 - We’ve Been Searching For Aliens All Wrong, Researchers Say 12:37 - Huge Physics Anomaly Finally Put to Test, But That Just Makes it More Confusing 18:15 - The Crisis in Cosmology Just Got So Much Worse
Webb Falsified Dark Matter Prediction -- and other science news of the week 25.11.2024 35:17
This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 - AI Scaling Hits Wall, Rumours Say. How Serious is it? 6:16 - New Calculation Finds we are close to the Kessler Syndrome 12:00 - "Moral Panic" over Social Media Causing Mental Health Problems in Children 18:04 - Webb Falsified Dark Matter Prediction – And No One Cares 23:25 - Physicists Changed Their Mind about Dark Matter Particles 29:29 - We...
New Theory: Dark Energy Might Be Black Holes -- and other science news of the week 17.11.2024 22:29
This is our weekly ad-free compilation of science news 00:00 - New Theory: Dark Energy Might Be Black Holes 5:16 - This New Energy Storage Idea Makes A Lot Of Sense 10:22 - AI Scaling Hits Wall, Rumours Say. How Serious is it? 16:38 - New Calculation Finds we are close to the Kessler Syndrome
Scientists Discover a Law of Natural Laws -- and other science news of the week 11.11.2024 23:17
This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 - Scientists Discover a Law of Natural Laws 5:21 - The Problem with Flying Cars 11:01 - Space-Filling Aether Theory Makes Comeback 18:03 - Self-Censorship is Rising
This new “AI Scientist” can “fully automate discovery" -- and other science news of the week 04.11.2024 23:03
This is our weekly ad-free compilation of science news00:00 - This new “AI Scientist” can “fully automate discovery"5:53 - Small Nuclear Reactors Have A Big Problem11:28 - The Strange Shape that Could Replace Space-Time --- Maybe17:31 - Did the Black Hole Information Paradox just Disappear?
Tiny Black Holes Might Have Left Holes in… Everything 29.10.2024 23:59
This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 - Tiny Black Holes Might Have Left Holes in… Everything 5:17 - AI Can’t Reason. Should It Drive Cars? 11:49 - “Neutral Science is Undesirable” Climate Scientists Argue 18:21 - A New Pattern in Nature
The Quantum Computing Collapse Has Begun -- and other science news of the week 23.10.2024 22:54
This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 - Scam or Breakthrough? Energy Saving with Electron Spins 6:23 - The Quantum Computing Collapse Has Begun 12:05 - Most Age Records are Pension Fraud, Scientist Says 17:14 - New Alien Signal Rumour -- What's Behind It?
Surprise Comeback: Dark Energy Could Be Holographic After All -- and other science news of the week 14.10.2024 28:04
This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 - Superconducting Cables are Coming. I’m Not Joking 6:05 - The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics Did Not Go To Physics 11:22 - These new scientific fraud cases worry me: Now also in material science 17:08 - I Didn’t Believe that AI is the Future of Coding. I Was Right. 22:21 - Surprise Comeback: Dark Energy Could Be Holographic After All
These physicists say they know what's inside a black hole -- and other science news of the week 07.10.2024 29:33
This is our weekly ad-free compilation of science news 00:00 - Who Will Win This Year’s Nobel Prize in Physics? My Speculations 5:39 - New Theory of Consciousness Explains Why Zombies Don’t Exist 11:25 - Negative Time is Real, Physicists Confirm. Kind Of. 16:50 - These physicists say they know what's inside a black hole 22:48 - “People Don’t Realize This” about Climate Change, Elon Musk Says
This Lawsuit Could Change Science -- and other science news of the week 30.09.2024 34:22
This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 - This Lawsuit Could Change Science 6:12 - Yuval Harari's Warning About New Alien Intelligences 12:51 - Wrong or Unfalsifiable? String Theory's Biggest Competitor in Trouble 20:00 - How Jailbreakers Try to “Free” AI 28:54 - Sound Lasers Could Soon Become Reality, Thanks to This New Idea
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