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Science News July 26
[This is a transcript with links to references.]Welcome everyone to this week’s science news. Today we’ll talk about Einstein, who was right again, metals that heal, a new type of stellar object, a quantum drum, how conscious awareness comes about, maybe, a better way to tell apart alien signals from boring human s...
Electric Vehicles: How difficult is the transition? (Re-upload)
As many of you have pointed out, the video on electric vehicles which ran one week ago had several mistakes and omissions. I have been extremely unhappy with that and decided to take the video down and upload a revised version. I want to thank you all for your support here on Patreon because without that, I couldn'...
Are Personality Tests the New Horoscopes?
[This is a transcript with links to references.]Are you extroverted, a social butterfly? Or more the introverted type who lingers around in a corner of the room? Are you agreeable? Or quick to argue? Do you like your routine? Or do you get easily bored? What’s your personality? The internet is full of personality te...
World’s Biggest Telescope, 3D-Printed Doritos, and a Supersonic Jet
World’s Biggest Telescope Half CompletedA webcam image, taken in late June 2023, of the construction site of ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope at Cerro Armazones, in Chile's Atacama Desert. Credits: ESOThe European Southern Observatory (ESO) just announced that they are halfway completed with construction on the ...
Science News July 19
[This is a transcript with links to references.]Welcome everyone to this week’s science news. Today we’ll fly 13 billion years back in time, talk about dark stars, quantum payments, the efficiency of solar cells, rubber that counts, a biodiversity cycle, scientists who shoot lasers at lava, how to dissolve plastic,...
Science News July 12
[This is a transcript with links to references.]Welcome everyone to this week’s science news. Today we’ll talk about a new atomic nucleus, a map of a fruit fly brain, an explanation for the gravity hole in the Indian ocean, a better source of quantum light, how NASA is preparing for a trip to MARS, high resolution ...
Quantum mechanics is nonlocal, but what does that mean?
[This is a transcript with links to references.]According to the headlines, last year’s Nobel Prize in physics was awarded for showing that the universe is not locally real. Or for “spooky quantum behavior” and spooky action at a distance. Or for “exploring quantum weirdness”. What’s that supposed to mean? ...
Young People Who Listen, Photodragging, New NASA LEGO, And IQ Tests for AI
Photoshopping is Yesterday, Today is PhotodraggingThe DragGan App on Hugging Face uses AI to create a 3D model of a photo and then allows you to drag it. At this point it’s not exactly user-friendly, but it isn’t hard to imagine how this will blow up once it hits the mass market. Check out the examples in Min Choi...
Science News July 5
[This is a transcript with links to references.]Welcome everyone to this week’s science news. Today we’ll talk about the first evidence that time ran slower in the early universe, how to catch light, what astronomers think about the new starlink satellites, a breakthrough in quantum computing reported by Microsoft,...
Do we need IQ tests for AI?
[This is a transcript with links to references.]Artificial Intelligence. It seems like lately everyone talks about it, everywhere, all at once. But is artificial intelligence really intelligent? What do we even mean by intelligent? If it’s not yet intelligent, how would we find out if it were to become intelligent? T...
Science News June 28
[This is a transcript with links to references.]Welcome everyone to this week’s science news. Today we’ll talk about quantum computers that are really good at guessing, room temperature superconductors, again, how we changed the tilt of Earth’s axis without noticing, the environmental impact of the metaverse, a c...
Is the microchip shortage over?
[This is a transcript with links to references.]Remember COVID? That pandemic we had back then? It did more than making homemade bread fashionable, it also showed us just how easily global supply networks can be disrupted. The Covid pandemic affected nearly every sector of our economies, but the impacts were particular...
Science News June 21
[This is a transcript with links to references.]Welcome everyone to this week’s science news. Today we’ll talk about plants that use quantum mechanics, the first data from a new galaxy survey, quantum utility, online hate groups, photonic computing, the most sensitive power measurement ever, how to map a tunnel wit...
Will entropy increase kill the universe?
[This is a transcript with links to references.]Life needs order. This isn’t just what exhausted parents say, it’s a property of nature. Life requires structure. The human body for example isn’t just a bag of mixed atoms – the atoms are ordered, they’re in very specific places. Like, erm, organs and stuff. Lo...
Astrophysicists Rethink What It Means for a Planet to be “Habitable” & ChatGPT Helps with the Tomato Harvest
Astrophysicists Rethink What It Means for a Planet to be “Habitable”The term “habitable” has traditionally been used to describe planets that could have liquid water on their surface. But this definition now seems overly simplistic given the diversity of exoplanets scientists have discovered. A new paper by res...
Science News June 14
[This is a transcript with links to references.]Welcome everyone to this week’s science news! Today we’ll talk about evidence against dark matter that might also be evidence for dark matter, atoms that breathe, noise cancellation with plasma, wireless power transmission in space, just and safe limits for ecosystems...
Can we improve humans? Biohacking and Transhumanism.
This is Jan. He had a chip implanted into his hand. Now he can use it to pay and check his account balance. This is Neil. Neil had an antenna implanted into his skull bone. It allows him to feel and hear colours, including infrared and ultraviolet. He also has a button in a tooth that he can push with his tongue to act...
Metal Shortage in Europe & A New Health Indicator
Better MRI Thanks to Quantum PhysicsGerman start-up NVision wants to revolutionize Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) with its hyperpolarization technology (MRIs pick up on nuclear spins). The company creates and ships abnormally-strongly spin-polarized parahydrogen. Medical centers can use this to transfer to spin polar...
Science News June 7
[This is a transcript with links to references.]Welcome everyone to this week’s science news! Today we’ll talk about a new search for dark matter, how to navigate with quantum effects, why amino acids are left-handed, medical tests in a cave, the Roman space telescope, a new record for optical fibres, a water plume...
Has Physics Ruled out Free Will
[This is a transcript with links to references.]The future is determined by the past, except for random quantum jumps which no one can control. Causes have causes have causes, and they go back all the way to the big bang. Does that mean we have no free will? People often ask me that. I find the question stunningly unin...
New High Resolution Images of the Sun & Upcoming Brain Implants
New High-Resolution Images from the Sun’s SurfaceThe world's most powerful ground-based solar telescope, the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, has released eight new images of the Sun, showcasing its ability to capture unprecedented details of sunspots and quiet regions. The images were obtained by the Visible-Br...
Science News May 31
[This is a transcript with references.]Welcome everyone to this week’s science news. Today we’ll talk about a new study that sheds doubt on the big bounce model of the universe, quantum repeaters, a quantum simulation of curved space time, a snake-robot, metamaterials in space, underwater mining, how to compute wit...
How dangerous is the bird flu to humans?
[This is a transcript with links to references.]A lot of birds have had the flu recently. You may have seen the headlines about it. This winter we’ve seen a severe outbreak of the bird flu, or avian flu. How much should we worry about that? I’ve tried to figure out what’s going on, and, well, let me just say I’...
A transistor made of wood & The Health Benefits of Cat memes
A Transistor Made of WoodScientists from Linköping University and the KTH in Sweden have created the world's first wooden transistor. They used balsa wood and removed its lignin, a substance that makes wood hard and rigid. Then, they filled the wood with a conductive polymer called PEDOT:PSS that is semiconducting...
Science News May 24
[This is a transcript with links to references.]Welcome everyone to this week’s science news. Today we’ll talk about traces of your DNA in the air, a new telescope that will track down gravitational wave sources, a new quantum advantage claim, e-Fuels, a superconductor experiment that failed to replicate, nuclear f...
Why is everyone suddenly neurodivergent?
[This is a transcript with references.]In 2003, Simon Baron-Cohen, a clinical psychologist at the University of Cambridge, claimed that Albert Einstein had autism. Elon Musk has said he has Asperger’s syndrome. And if you ask Google, you’ll find many lists of famous people who supposedly have autism, usually with t...
Can Aliens Find Us & Rubin Observatory Update
Can Aliens Find Us? It’s Complicated.We look for signs of alien civilization elsewhere, but what if aliens are looking for us, too? Could they find us? Two new studies have now investigated the matter.The first comes from researchers from UCLA and UC Berkeley. They explored the possibility that civilizations around n...
Science News May 17
[This is a transcript with references.]Welcome everyone to this week’s science news. Today we’ll talk about quantum computing, mother trees, diamonds, microscopy with entangled photons, a supernova that we saw 5 times, a telescope made of fluid, better glasses, a new alien search initiative, and of course, the tele...
The Origin of Life: What do we know?
[This is a transcript with references.]The origin of life is without doubt one of the big open questions of science. We understand well how solar systems form and how planet Earth was created. We also understand how life evolved from the first microbes to bipedal mammals with opposing thumbs, though we’re still tryin...
Jellyfish-Robot That Can Clean The Ocean Floor And Sex in Space
A Jellyfish-Robot That Can Clean The Ocean FloorScientists at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart have created a jellyfish-like robot that can swim underwater and collect waste from the ocean floor. The robot is almost silent and can capture objects without touching them, making it suitable fo...
