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Science News Nov 30

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Welcome everyone to this week’s science news! Today we’ll talk about Trouble at ITER, robots that build robots, air pollution,...

Nuclear Waste: What Do We Do With it?

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Nuclear power used to be a conversation stopper. Luckily, we now all agree that it’s the fastest, safest, and most reliable way to get off fossil...

The Searches For Dark Matter & A Map Of The Galaxies

Two More Dark Matter Searches Return Empty-Handed

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Science News Nov 23

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Welcome to this week’s science news. Today we’ll talk about how to build a radio telescope – on the moon, recent wormhole headlines, th...

Coming up on Nov 26

I like to talk about nuclear power. This isn't new. New is that people actually listen to what I say. The renaissance of nuclear power has pushed forward technology development again, in particular...

Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics: What's the Link?

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Physicists have debated the role of consciousness in quantum mechanics for more than 100 years. Some podcast episodes will soon reach that length, but I h...

Coming up on Nov 19

Here's a topic I have meant to talk about for a long time, but didn't quite know how to approach it: what's the relation (if any) between quantum mechanics and consciousness. Things clicked in plac...

Science News Nov 16

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Welcome everyone to this week’s science news. Today we’ll talk about mysterious radiation bursts, a superfluid that supposedly recreate...

Why are testosterone levels falling?

Forget war, forget climate change, recessions, pandemics. Today we’ll talk about a real crisis. The decrease of testosterone levels. Just look at all those headlines. There must be something goin...

Science News Nov 9

Welcome everyone to this week’s science news. Today we’ll talk about experimental evidence for quantum effects in the brain, the discovery of a potentially dangerous asteroid, a new method to t...

Coming up on Nov 12

The sale of testosterone supplements is booming. Men seem to be popping the stuff like sugar pills. Headlines are screaming that testosterone levels are declining. How much of this is based on scie...

Quantum Winter Is Coming

Quantum technology current attracts a lot of attention and money, which might explain why they’re missing on my end. But it’s not just governments who think quantum everything is where your tax...

Coming up on Nov 5

Physicists heavily pin their hopes on quantum technologies as a way of demonstrating that foundational work in their field is still relevant for societal progress. Unfortunately, their unwillingnes...

Science News Nov 2

Welcome everyone to this week’s science News. Today we’ll talk about space junk, the carbon footprint of a Higgs Boson, more evidence against dark matter, plans for a nuclear fusion plant in Ca...

What Do Longtermists Want?

Have you ever put away a bag of chips because they say it isn’t healthy? That makes sense. Have you ever put away a bag of chips because you want to increase your chances of having more children ...

Science News Oct 26

Welcome everyone to this week’s Science News. Today we’ll talk about how life on Mars might have caused its own extinction, how to find life on Earth, a new paper about the Hubble tension, stra...

Coming Up On Oct 29

In the past couple of years headlines have been popping up about "longtermists" that worry about human extinction and think we should focus more about the future expansion of human civilization tha...

What If the Effect Comes Before the Cause?

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The cause comes before the effect. And I’m glad it does because it’d be awkward if my emails arrived before I’d written them. If that ever h...

Coming up on Oct 22

It's been a few weeks that we've talked about quantum mechanics... So on Saturday we'll talk about a topic that's been on my mind for a few years, the question whether quantum mechanics is "retroca...

Science News October 19

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Welcome everyone to this week’s science news. Today we’ll talk about the Quantum Internet Alliance, wormholes in the New York Times, a black...

Why are we getting fatter?

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Today I want to talk about personal energy storage. I don’t mean that drawer we all have that’s full of batteries in the wrong size, I mean o...

Science News October 12

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Welcome everyone to this week’s science news that Br...

Coming up on Oct 15

It happens frequently that I come across some headline on recent research and, as I try to figure out what to make of it, fall down a rabbit hole that leads to everything everybody else has ever sa...

Cold Fusion is Back (there's just one problem)

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Cold fusion could save the world. It’d be a basically unlimited, clean, source of energy. It sounds great. There’s just one problem: it’s n...

The First Ever Episode of Science News Without the Gobbledygook

One thing I miss about the blogging days is the ability to comment on current events short notice. It's much harder with video than in writing. This is why on my YouTube channel, we now have a week...

Coming up on Oct 8

Coming up on Saturday is a video I've been working on for a long time, low energy nuclear reactions aka cold fusion, reborn. There is much more to say about it than you'd think. Already one of my p...

Can we make flying "green"?

“Flight shaming” is a social movement that originated in Sweden a few years ago. Its aim is to discourage people from flying because it’s bad for the environment. But let’s be honest, we’...

Coming up on October 1

Climate change has a side-effect that makes it very interesting, which is that it dramatically accelerates technological progress in some areas. Changes that would ordinarily have taken a hundred y...

What is "Nothing"?

Like most videos on YouTube, this is a video about nothing. But we’re a science channel, so we’ll talk about nine levels of nothing. What are the nine levels of nothing? Can you really make a u...

Coming up on September 24

So on Saturday we will talk about Nothing. That's Nothing with a capital N which you might say is quite something. Indeed I managed to talk about Nothing for 15 minutes. More seriously (but not too...