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The future is dark, and I don’t mean the upcoming US elections, I mean that stars in the universe will eventually all burn out. They’ll clump together an...
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When I was just about to log off for the holiday break, I saw these headlines popping up, saying that 2024-01-12 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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It’s hard to keep track of all the things that will supposedly fix climate change but won’t. Such as hydrogen, veganism, or quant...
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We’ve heard that space debris is bad and the problem’s getting worse, but here’s a new thing to worry about. It could interfere...
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Researchers at the Georgia Institute for Techn...
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What is better, planting trees or covering the same area of land with solar panels? 2024-01-08 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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Will the world end? Someone asked me that on twitter. You mi...
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Imagine you make a prediction for a discovery that wins the Nobel Prize. Your prediction turns out to be correct, and no one cares. T...
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There are a lot of bad arguments against nuclear power. For example, that it’d just be too simple a solution to climate change, we ...
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Nuclear power is on a roll. In its latest success, 2023-12-24 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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This video is all about Albert Einstein, yes, that guy again. Einstein is famous for his theory of general relativity. It’s taught us that gravity is not a force. A...
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Scientists have long speculated that life didn’t begin on earth but in space. According to a new preprint, life could have come fro...
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I though, I have a talent for pissing off climate scientists, but I have to bow to Sultan Al Jaber who had climate scientists f...
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Particle physicists in the United States have tried to come up with a strategy to revitalize their research area, and their ideas areâ...
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The Brick is a boxy cloud of opaque dust at the centre of the Milky Way, which has confused scientists ever since its discovery 30 ye...
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IBM just announced they produced the first quantum processor with more than 1000 qubits and I got a lot of question about what this means, so let’s have a l...
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Complexity. It sounds very sciency, doesn’t it. Everyone loves to talk about complex problems and complex systems, but no one...
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Today I have some really bad news. So, you know, grab a cup of tea, or maybe scotch. Ready? A new study says that climate change will...
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Last week, Virgin Atlantic chartered the world’s first-ever transatlantic flight powered by sustainable aviation fuel. Their Boeing 787 flight from Lo...
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This is the maybe most surprising development in theoretical physics I’ve seen for a decade or so. A well-renown physicist is sayin...
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Every scientific discipline has its holy grail, and the holy grail of physics is definitely quantum gravity. Quantum gravity is...
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[This video seems to have upset some people. I'm not entirely sure why. First, this is totally a real paper that you can read yourself. Second, it's not like I support this idea. I merely found...
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A study just out from researchers at Durham University in the UK has found that reducing social media use doesn’t have much o...
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You’ve all heard of bubbles, but have you heard of anti-bubbles? Me neither, but it’s a thing, as I just learned from this recent...
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The Swedish Karolinska Institutet near Stockholm has tested drones for delivering defibrillators in response to emergency calls, and ...
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