A new competitor for string theory (and other science news of the week)
In this week's science news, we have a new contender for a theory of quantum gravity, claim that a famous proof is wrong, bad climate news, the first transatlantic flight with sustainable aviation fue...
17 Dec 202321min
These scientists got sued for doing their job
Science and the law come in to conflict more often than you might think. In this episode I want to tell you about several cases that I have followed which have concerned me greatly. The issue here isn...
17 Dec 202315min
A particle accelerator that's just 10 cm long, and other science news of the week
In this episode we have an experiment that wants to measure nothing, a particle accelerator that's just 10 cm long, a nucleus the shape of a dumbbell, a drone that saved 6 lives, what social media doe...
8 Dec 202318min
Why was Sam Altman fired from Open AI? And other science news of the week.
Welcome everyone to this week’s science news. Today we’ll talk about the leading theories for why Sam Altman got fired from OpenAI, cosmic rays with HUGE energies, evidence of a an overdue supervolcan...
30 Nov 202318min
All you need to know about Long COVID
Estimates say that as many as 1 in 10 people who had COVID were still affected more than 3 months later. This health condition has become known as long COVID. In this video, we will be discussing what...
30 Nov 202318min
Is Science Dying?
Is science coming to an end? On the one hand, it seems like scientific progress has slowed to a crawl and no big breakthroughs are happening any more. On the other hand, we are left with many unsolved...
22 Nov 202314min
Mars glows green, and other science news of the week
Today we’ll talk about why Mars glows green, an amazingly cool way to make magnets hover, a study which found that a supposed piece of alien tech isn’t alien tech, surprising absolutely no one, plans ...
22 Nov 202315min
Net Zero will Be Virtually Impossible To Reach Without Carbon Removal
Everyone is talking about Net Zero. But Net Zero what? What does this even mean? Is it a reasonable goal? How far are we on the way? And do we have any chance of reaching it? For this video, we have c...
17 Nov 202316min
