Things I Know Nothing About

BlueDot's AI flagged COVID nine days before the WHO declared it a public health emergency. It spotted Zika six months early. These algorithms scan news, flight data, animal migration, and even wearable health data to predict outbreaks before humans even notice. Things I Know Nothing About explores the science behind the stories that challenge everything we think we know.

JWST detected signs of water and potentially dimethyl sulfide — a molecule only produced by life on Earth — in the atmosphere of K2-18 b, an exoplanet 124 light-years away.

Your immune system remembers every pathogen you've ever encountered — sometimes for decades. Memory T cells, memory B cells, and tissue-resident sentinels form a living library of every infection and vaccine. Some of these cells are still functional 50 years later. Things I Know Nothing About explores the science behind the stories that challenge everything we think we know.

Eta Carinae is one of the most massive and unstable stars in our galaxy — 100 times the mass of our Sun. It already faked its own death in 1843 with an eruption that briefly made it the second-brightest star in the sky. When it finally goes supernova for real, it could be visible during the day. Things I Know Nothing About explores the science behind the stories that challenge everything we think...

Ed Zitron built a career as AI's loudest critic. But when you look past the headlines, the arguments fall apart. From mocking Nobel Prize winners to claiming AI has hit its limits right before every breakthrough, this is what happens when skepticism becomes a brand.

85% of all matter in the universe is invisible. We can't touch it, see it, or detect it directly — but without dark matter, galaxies would fly apart and we wouldn't exist. We explore galaxy rotation curves, gravitational lensing, the cosmic microwave background, and the leading candidates for what dark matter actually is.🔔 Subscribe for weekly deep dives into science and space.#DarkMatter #Space...

95% of adults carry Epstein-Barr virus. New research shows it may be the leading cause of multiple sclerosis — a connection that could revolutionize how we prevent and treat the disease. We dive into the landmark Harvard study, molecular mimicry, and why a virus you got as a teenager might be attacking your nervous system decades later.🔔 Subscribe for weekly deep dives into science and health.#EB...

For the first time, researchers have grown functional spinal cord tissue from stem cells. This isn't a distant dream — it's published science that could change everything for spinal injury patients. We break down how it works, what the limitations are, and why this could be one of the most important medical breakthroughs of the decade.🔔 Subscribe for weekly deep dives into science and medicine.#S...

What if molecules could compute? Researchers are building molecular machines that change shape on command, processing information without silicon chips. It's not science fiction — it's happening in labs right now. We explore DNA computing, molecular switches, and why the future of processing might look nothing like a computer.🔔 Subscribe for weekly deep dives into science and technology.#Molecula...

Quantum mechanics is the most successful theory in physics — and it's incomplete. There's a gap between quantum rules and the reality we experience every day, and physicists are racing to fill it. We dive into the measurement problem, entanglement, decoherence, and the leading theories trying to complete the picture — from many-worlds to objective collapse.🔔 Subscribe for weekly deep dives into s...

The universe isn't eternal. Physicists have mapped out several possible endings — from heat death to vacuum decay to the Big Rip. Some could happen tomorrow. Most won't happen for trillions of years. But the math is unsettling. We explore what happens when entropy wins, why the Higgs field might be unstable, and what it means that the universe's best days might already be behind it.🔔 Subscribe fo...

Barack Obama said aliens are 'real' on a podcast. Four days later, Trump ordered the Pentagon to release UFO files. We unpack the wildest week in disclosure history.

A humanoid robot developed language by watching itself move in a mirror. No programming, no training data, just self-observation. This might be the closest we have come to artificial self-awareness.

Neil deGrasse Tyson says the singularity is overhyped nonsense. We respectfully disagree and here's why his physics-first framework misses what's actually happening in AI.

A supermassive black hole weighing 20 million suns got ejected from its own galaxy and is now barreling through space at 2.2 million miles per hour. Plus the oldest galaxy ever found, hidden black holes, and organic molecules in a cosmic blender.

Elon Musk's Grok AI removed its content filters, and the internet did exactly what you'd expect. But the real story is about the battle over who controls what AI can create.

Neuromorphic chips that mimic the human brain just solved physics simulations faster than traditional supercomputers using a fraction of the power. This could change everything from AI to brain disease research.

Your brain is retiring its own stem cells. By your 60s, the factory that builds new neurons has practically shut down. But researchers at the National University of Singapore just found the protein responsible — and when they cranked it back up, those retired stem cells went right back to work.

Twenty-three hours of a computer brain game cut Alzheimer's risk by 25%, and the protection lasted 20 years. This massive NIH-funded trial out of Johns Hopkins is one of the most stunning dementia prevention findings ever published.

AI deepfake voice cloning — how it works, real scam cases, and how to protect yourself. Sources: McAfee, The Guardian, FBI, Deloitte.

A group of former OpenAI researchers just published a detailed timeline showing artificial superintelligence by December 2027. The AI-2027 paper lays out month-by-month predictions from superhuman coders to full ASI by year end. We break down the scenario, the two possible endings, and what it means for all of us. Read the full paper at ai-2027.com

In February 2025, doctors did something unprecedented - they gave a six-month-old baby a drug designed for one person on the entire planet. Him. This is the story of Baby KJ, and how CRISPR gene editing is quietly becoming the most important medical technology since antibiotics. We break down three CRISPR breakthroughs from the last 12 months:- The first personalized gene therapy cure (Baby KJ)- E...

China's EAST reactor hit 150 million degrees for 17 minutes. That is ten times hotter than the core of the sun. We break down what this means for fusion energy and why it matters. Things I Know Nothing About explores science and technology. Website: https://thingsiknownothingabout.com/

Google's Willow chip hit 105 qubits with exponential error correction. Microsoft found a new state of matter for topological qubits. IBM is making quantum computers talk to each other. We break down why 2025 might be quantum computing's transistor moment. Things I Know Nothing About explores science and technology. Website: https://thingsiknownothingabout.com/

A Hellfire missile hit a UFO off Yemen and bounced off. Two new Pentagon drone videos show objects defying known physics. Alex and Maya break down the leaked MQ-9 Reaper footage, the five observables of UAP encounters, and why the government's own evidence contradicts its official position.