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  • Time to Get Real About Climate Change -- and other science news of the week
    May 19 2024

    This is our weekly compilation of science news. 00:00 - Geothermal Power Everywhere: Tech Advances Rapidly 5:33 - Time to Get Real About Climate Change 11:24 - A New Test for Quantum Gravity 18:00 - Universe Was Once Divided into Cells, New Study Says

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    25 min
  • Einstein's Other Theory of Everything
    May 19 2024

    Einstein completed his theory of general relativity in 1915 when he was 37 years old. What did he do for the remaining 40 years of his life? He continued developing his masterwork of course! Feeling that his theory was incomplete, Einstein pursued a unified field theory. Though he ultimately failed, the ideas he came up with were quite interesting. I have read a lot of old Einstein papers in the past weeks and here is my summary of what I believe he tried to do. This video comes with a quiz which you can take here.

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    12 min
  • Scientific Progress Has Slowed Down -- and other science news of the week
    May 19 2024

    This is our weekly compilation of science news. 00:00 - They Named an Asteroid After Me 5:46 - The Era of Nuclear Precision has Begun 10:30 - Scientific Progress Has Slowed Down 16:43 - CERN Looks for Origins of Quantum Randomness 22:35 - Brain Really Uses Quantum Effects

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    28 min
  • Fusion in Space: New Plasma Thruster Tested Successfully -- and other science news of the week
    May 19 2024

    This is our weekly compilation of science news. 00:00 - New Experiment Could Settle 100 Years-Old Debate about Quantum Tunneling 5:08 - Fusion in Space: New Plasma Thruster Tested Successfully 12:47 - The Multiverse just Got Bigger: An Upgrade for the Many Worlds Interpretation 18:34 - Bird Flu Spreads to Dairy Cattle, Farm Worker Infected, Virus Fragments in Milk

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    25 min
  • Scandal over Nuclear Phase-out in Germany -- and other science news of the week
    May 19 2024

    This is our weekly compilation of science news:

    00:00 - Institute for Extinction Risk Shuts Down: What We Know 5:47 - Are we surrounded by dark energy? A spacecraft tetrad will look for it 10:48 - Energy from Air While Removing CO2: How does it work? 16:03 - I thought Electric Cars Were the Future. I Changed My Mind 21:59 - Scandal over Nuclear Phase-Out in Germany: What We Know

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    27 min
  • Modified Gravity Strikes Back -- and other science news of the week
    Apr 26 2024

    This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 - This Fusion Startup Is a Strong Newcomer 5:30 - Modified Gravity Strikes Back 12:24 - AI More Energy Efficient than Humans, New Study Finds 17:42 - I thought Electric Cars Were the Future. I Changed My Mind

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    24 min
  • New Superconductor Scandal -- and other Science News of the week
    Apr 17 2024

    This is our weekly compilation of science news 00:00 - New Superconductor Scandal 7:17 - Climate Change Makes Days Longer 11:49 - Musk: Are Quantum Computers even good for Something? 17:19 - Charging While Driving: Does it Work? 22:44 - How Noise Improves Computing 32:45 - Warp Drives: New Simulations 38:10 - Gravitational Waves Necessary for Human Existence, New Study Finds

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    44 min
  • Search for Quantum Gravity Begins at South Pole -- and other science news of the week
    Apr 17 2024

    This is our weekly compilation of science news. 00:00 - Quantum Internet -- No One Needs This 5:55 - New Experiment at CERN to look for "hidden particles" 10:48 - Search for Quantum Gravity Begins at South Pole 16:42 - How AI could go wrong -- and how it could save us all 22:18 - Self-heating Concrete Melts Snow -- No Power Required 27:56 - My First Solar Eclipse -- What I am looking forward to 34:28 - Are Wildfires Good?

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    40 min